£1000 gaming rig?

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I wont be buying it till June and i know the whole technology constantly fluctuates in prices stuff but i was having some difficulty thinking about it. It needs a monitor aswell, 22", cant afford anything more and dont have the space for anything more. The case i've settled on a BitFenix raider because its only £60 on ebuyer and has some nice features. It doesnt need an optical drive (not that any one uses them anyway but in case some one did). No preference for GPUs. It wont be doing anything other than gaming and watching stuff on the internet.

[tlowr4]

My suggestion: Wait till mid May, then start building your rig. Stuff changes so rapidly, it's no use making a build that you get your heart set on, only to find out when you go to order it the graphics card isn't in stock, or you have to get a lower capacity SSD because the bigger one went off sale.

As for the actual rig, you're gonna have fun trying to squeeze all that into 1000 quid. Things you should give us so we can help you:

CPUS: Intel or AMD (which do you prefer).

SSD's (which do you prefer).

Graphics carsd: nVidia or ATI (which do you prefer).

What are you shooting for? What else will you be doing with your rig other than gaming.

And mind you mate, the bitfenix raider is a hell of a case, like I said, you're gonna be seriously wishing apon a star to get all that hardware in with a price bracket like that, unless you go with something crap like a FX6100 or 13 2100 and a cheapo 6770 or 550Ti. Don't expect to be getting massive framerates at high resolutions with ultra textures with hardware like that.

What I'd suggest is dropping the SSD entirely, getting the cheapest Z77 board there is going with an mSATA slot, and getting a microSSD later to cache your hard drive. There's a saving.

Plus, Acer make great monitors at cheaper prices. Another thing to answer: What size monitor? Sure, we can get you a 17" monitor for 50 quid, but it'll be crap. Do you want full HD? Do you want LED, LCD?

Put some more effort into the post and you'll get some response

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This is about the best you can get at the moment.



Next month you will have a better idea of Ivy Bridge pricing and can build a system with newer technology.

[tlowr4]

^^ Well bugger me. Prices are cheap in the UK...now I wanna move more than ever.

That rig would be $1200+ here in AU...

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Thanks. I think 16gb of ram is a bit much and so would the 750w psu, i would drop that down to a 650w

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I chose the TX750M because it is partially modular but the TX650 or similar would work perfectly. 8 GB of ram would also work well.

[tlowr4]

Yep. For a pure gaming rig, 8 is fine.

So, bone chewer, thinking of getting around to answering the questions I asked any time soon? Not a lot of help will come your way if you don't provide good info...

[Firat]

Originally Posted by tlowr4

^^ Well bugger me. Prices are cheap in the UK...now I wanna move more than ever.

That rig would be $1200+ here in AU...

£978.82 = 1530.39 Australian dollars

Its still expensive when you factor in differences in currency

[MaXiMiZe]

Not a bad set of components for a grand

[tlowr4]

Originally Posted by Firat

£978.82 = 1530.39 Australian dollars

Its still expensive when you factor in differences in currency

That's it. I'm moving. Tom, look out.