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wrightyrx7

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Hiya all,

Planning on building a budget Rig over the next 3 month.. want to spend about £600. My problem is i cant save to buy all the stuff at once.. cause if i do i end up blowing the money lol.. so i want to buy the parts in stages, spending roughly £200 a month over 3 months. Has anyone got any ideas?

I dont really play games that require a top end pc... e.g CS:S, BFBC2 but want a new rig as the one I have now is slowly giving up on me. But im not goin to complain had it 5 years. But as its a Dell its kinda difficult to upgrade as i find GFX cards dont fit an when they do the system rejects them lol.

Anyway hope to get some ideas.

Thanks in advance

Chris
 
I play alot of CS:S and my comp has stopped playin BFBC2 for some reason but not bothered to look into the reason. But yea would like it to play a couple of the popular FPS Multiplayer games.
 
TTL = Time to live (customs) & Tiny tom logan
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Lol ohhhh right dont i feel stupid
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Yea thats the system/review I found this website from. Do you reckon thats the best system for around my price range?

This means trying to save the money rather than buying it in stages like i wanted to do.

My problem is a can put £200 one month then £200 the next but for some reason once i got that £400 I just go out an buy clothes lmao
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Well im off to bed will check on the forums tomoz... thanks again for the help your giving me guys.
 
Hows this?

https://www.aria.co....tBH1w9NhRUFnpRQ,

slightly over £600 but not by much
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If its a bit of overkill for you, then an AMD build could save you a fair few pennys

The 2500K is my personal faverate gaming CPU at the moment but for only one GTX 460, I don't think its worth it. Now if you could maybe add a second card after you've built your rig up so efectively ending up with a £800 gaming rig, now thats different.

If your want to spend around £600 though and then leave it for another 3-5 years then I gota say, I personally think you'd be better with a i3 CPU, like in TTL's buget rig and splash out more on the graphics card and go for a 6970 or better, a 6950 if you can stretch to it.

When building buget rigs you have to find the balance where your getting not just the best CPU but best GPU you can for your money.

Here's the review of TTL's £600 gaming rig with the parts he used http://www.overclock...600_gaming_pc/1

Here's a good breakdown of what cards to get based on what you want to spend http://www.tomshardw...view-32134.html

Here's a good breakdown of what CPU to get based on what you want to spend http://www.tomshardw...view-32155.html

Edit: Also wanted to say that you really should try to save up the money and buy it all at once because, heaven forbid, you end up with a faulty part then you want to find out straight away and get it replaced, not have it kicking around in a draw for 2 months unopened. Is there a relative or somebody that you can trust with the money? Not an option for some people I know. If not, what type of PSU is it in your old Dell? maybe you could use that to test your motherboard, cpu and ram if you brought them first?

Hope this helps
 
For games such as BFBC2 he should be fine with a 460, should get 40+ frames at 1920x1080 high details.

If gaming or horsepower isnt a main concern then the i3 or Phenom x4 route will be the best place to start off, with the money saved there you may be able to squeeze in an ssd too!
 
Some great replies thank you all, I'm in work at the minute so trying to view all this on my blackberry isn't working to well, going to check all the links an have a look at the parts mention when I get home. Thanks again to you all its much appreciated.

Chris
 
Hi. Start with the stuff that doesn't get refreshed so often, like HDD's, CD drive, cables, fans, case maby, then CPU cooler and motherboard maby, memory then CPU and GPU last I think so when you can afford it newer stuff might be released so you get a better choice and price maby
 
I should say now that I don't actually play BFBC2 so I can only comment on gaming setup's in general not gaming rigs built for that game.

EDIT: Should also add that I noticed that a reply on the dup thread of this said that the games that Wrighty wants to play favours NVIDIA cards over AMD so I've stopped mentioning them.

For games such as BFBC2 he should be fine with a 460, should get 40+ frames at 1920x1080 high details.

If gaming or horsepower isnt a main concern then the i3 or Phenom x4 route will be the best place to start off, with the money saved there you may be able to squeeze in an ssd too!

I agree that a 460 will probably run that game fine but most probably not as well as a 560 TI or two 460's which he could possibly stretch to if he went for a i3/955 BE over a 2500K.

I must say though that an SSD in a rig like this may be a waste of money as it won't really do much to enhance the gaming experience and therefore be money better spent elsewhere.

You will want 4 real cores for gaming, with bad company more than others so that counts an i3 out tbh.

Like I said, I can't comment on BFBC2 but my respopnce before was based on reviews like this one http://www.tomshardw...view-32128.html which saw the sandy i3's give the 955 BE a bit of a slapping due to its speed and the fact that most games don't seem to use 4 cores. I've also seen people on this forum swear by the i3 over the same priced AMD's but like I said, I know nothing about BFBC2 so if that game does use more than 2 cores then a 955 BE with a good 8xx mobo would be the way to go.
 
even crysis doesnt use 4 cores...

That would be cool if he said he played crysis but seeing as he said he plays bad company, which does like a quad core, I'm not sure I see your point.

Sandy based CPU give everything a slap clock for clock but having played it on a dual core then swapping it for a quad core I know the extra cores help that game. I think with it being developed for the Xbox it might need 3 to get the best out of it.
 
Sandy based CPU give everything a slap clock for clock but having played it on a dual core then swapping it for a quad core I know the extra cores help that game. I think with it being developed for the Xbox it might need 3 to get the best out of it.

Where you using a NVIDIA card by chance?

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/07/05/how-many-cpu-cores-do-games-need/5

@Wrighty The above review is about how many cores games actually use so you might want to have a read if your considering the i3 or 955 BE.
 
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