My first ever gaming PC!!

[Mark Wesson]

As the title states, i'm in the throws of moving over from console to PC for most of my gaming req. Here's what i've come up with so far and would really like some feedback. Cheers

22" BenQ G2222HDL Widescreen LED Monitor

2TB Samsung HD204UI Spinpoint F4 SATA-II 3.5" Hard Drive

Gladiator Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.80GHz Overclocked Bundle (comes with CPU, MB, CPU Cooler, and 4gb Mushkin Silverline DDR3 1333Mhz Ram)

650W Corsair TX650 V2 ATX2.3 SLI/Crossfire Compliant Power Supply

Zalman Z9 Plus Midi Tower Chassis

MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR III HAWK 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

P.S. This little lot is just shy of £800.

 

[DragonPC]

Asus p8p67

i5 2500k

4gb Mushkin Silverline DDR3 1333Mhz

MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR II or hawk

hx 650

 

[Mark Wesson]

Asus p8p67

i5 2500k

4gb Mushkin Silverline DDR3 1333Mhz

MSI GeForce GTX 560Ti Twin FrozR II or hawk

hx 650

Thanks mate, i'll check those out, although i'm starting to lean towards a Radeon HD6950.

 

[daniSAUR]

Thanks mate, i'll check those out, although i'm starting to lean towards a Radeon HD6950.

Going for the 6950 allows you to unlock it to a 6970. That'd be my choice.

 

[adamjamesroe]

Going for the 6950 allows you to unlock it to a 6970. That'd be my choice.

Gone off ATI cards since the Nvidia 5xx servies comes out, that would be where i would put my money. a decent GTX 560 somthing like this; give the GTX 570 a run for its money.

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-gigabyte-gtx-560-ti-super-overclock-40nm-4590mhz-gddr5-gpu-1000mhz-shader-1800mhz-384-cores

 

[ruthless_villain]

that 2TB samsung is only 5400rpm isnt it??

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

The 955 package looks good but if you can stretch to Aria's new 2500K package that OC3D just reviewed then I'd go for that.

As Ruthless stated that HDD only spins at 5400 rpm so as you're using it as a boot drive you'd be better with a 7200 rpm model.

I personally like the 6950's but if you go that route then make sure you get one that you know can be unlocked to a 6970 as some can't. I think the MSI Twin Frozr 3 model can but think I heard that the Twin Frozr 2 model can't.

Remember that the Nvidia stuff has Physx and 3d gaming though if you have any interest in that sort of thing.