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.
£1000 gaming rig?
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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
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
Firat
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£978.82 = 1530.39 Australian dollars
Its still expensive when you factor in differences in currency
£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.
Rastalovich
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It's certainly do-able. Didn't spend anytime looking at monitors, just picked one. Afaic at that price they much the same. Stuck in a case to represent the one you'll get off ebay. (personally I have no time for cases and would have bought a £15 one to get more kit). No storage space, but you can't tell me you haven't got a regular hard drive laying around that you can use
Anywho, 580 gaming and a cpu cooler to allow the MASSIVE overclock you'll put on it ! Asrock z68 mobos are easy to use. Couldn't see the Ex7 at Scan mind.
Not a recommendation, just fancied playing with your money at Scan whilst it rains outside. Oh for the extra £3+, look on their Today Only for a cheaper monitor or whatever.
I did i changed the post at the top
It's certainly do-able. Didn't spend anytime looking at monitors, just picked one. Afaic at that price they much the same. Stuck in a case to represent the one you'll get off ebay. (personally I have no time for cases and would have bought a £15 one to get more kit). No storage space, but you can't tell me you haven't got a regular hard drive laying around that you can use
Anywho, 580 gaming and a cpu cooler to allow the MASSIVE overclock you'll put on it ! Asrock z68 mobos are easy to use. Couldn't see the Ex7 at Scan mind.
Not a recommendation, just fancied playing with your money at Scan whilst it rains outside. Oh for the extra £3+, look on their Today Only for a cheaper monitor or whatever.
Yeah its nice but the other one had a hdd and i cant sacrifice any storage on my laptop so its kinda essential. I'll see what its safe getting second hand and see how much extra money i have then to get a better gpu
I Hunta x
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IMO you should scrap the SSD and just get a 500gb-1tb mechanical drive in something like rastalovich's build, the ssd will do nothing other than let the pc boot up 10-20 seconds faster when you sit down to play a game and whats that as apposed to being able to play the game as a higher quality..
Even if someone GAVE me a top of the line ssd i wouldnt use it in my main system because at the moment they are STILL to unreliable for me, they degrade to annoyingly slow speeds with not much effort annoyingly quickly in some cases.
Even if someone GAVE me a top of the line ssd i wouldnt use it in my main system because at the moment they are STILL to unreliable for me, they degrade to annoyingly slow speeds with not much effort annoyingly quickly in some cases.
Rastalovich
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Good call.
If I spent £1k on kit for someone wanting a gaming rig, the starting point has to be the gpu. I spec'd it with a 680 to start with, but found myself buying 775 gear. And although it would play games faster than anything anyone else would suggest, it has no future.
If I spent £1k on kit for someone wanting a gaming rig, the starting point has to be the gpu. I spec'd it with a 680 to start with, but found myself buying 775 gear. And although it would play games faster than anything anyone else would suggest, it has no future.
You high? A 680 is half my budget if i got a really shit everything else its do able but its gonna have serious bottlenecks and the psu would break after a few weeks and i would have to buy it all over again. If a 660 comes out by mid-june ill get one of them but i doubt that will happen
Rastalovich
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No it wouldn't. I wouldn't be dumb enough to build a rig that would.
Think about it.
EDIT: To get the 680 from the pic I uploaded, I need to make £145 from the rest of the gear. I exchange your £60 case for a £15, that's £45. Since you like ebay, I seen a Q9650 for £155 - kinda equates the i5 price - so ok with funds there. I get a £35 775 matx mobo off Aria (or anyone really, Amazon - whatever)... I need to find £65... 2x2GB DDR2 from anywhere for £48 (you only "need" 4g) ... I need £60 now. Heck I'll give up the Noctua.
So.. I'll have a Q9650 w/4g and a 680. It won't artificially bench as good as a 680 with a new mobo setup, but for a new mobo setup and settling for a 580 - the 680 rig WILL play games better. The rig won't arguably look as nice with it's £15 case, but it WILL play games better.
Key words here are artificial-benchmarks and real life gaming.
.. I should charge for this. Oh wait.
Think about it.
EDIT: To get the 680 from the pic I uploaded, I need to make £145 from the rest of the gear. I exchange your £60 case for a £15, that's £45. Since you like ebay, I seen a Q9650 for £155 - kinda equates the i5 price - so ok with funds there. I get a £35 775 matx mobo off Aria (or anyone really, Amazon - whatever)... I need to find £65... 2x2GB DDR2 from anywhere for £48 (you only "need" 4g) ... I need £60 now. Heck I'll give up the Noctua.
So.. I'll have a Q9650 w/4g and a 680. It won't artificially bench as good as a 680 with a new mobo setup, but for a new mobo setup and settling for a 580 - the 680 rig WILL play games better. The rig won't arguably look as nice with it's £15 case, but it WILL play games better.
Key words here are artificial-benchmarks and real life gaming.
.. I should charge for this. Oh wait.
TheOneHalf
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Yup, unless you get like multiple really high end GPU's then you MIGHT bottlneck but it's doubtfull.
Rastalovich
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... see above.
I wouldnt buy anything from ebay. I guess i could do that but i would prefer a nicer case and a 570/560ti over a crap case and a 680.
