dalewakelin
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Budget is £400
Opinions wanted budget gaming rig
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PetrolHead247
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EDIT: I'm an idiot and didn't read the title.
Ditch the fan controller, no need whatsoever. Also, that GPU isn't going to be very good for gaming, so ditch the fan controller and see if you can find a 6850 for about £80 (think OCUK have one up for that). Also, get a Fractal Arc Mini instead of that cheapo case, will be much easier to work with. Also, you don't need 2 optical drives it's just a waste, 1 will be fine. Do you really need a hotswap rack? Get rid of that too. All this money saved you might be able to squeeze a budget intel rig out of the budget
Ditch the fan controller, no need whatsoever. Also, that GPU isn't going to be very good for gaming, so ditch the fan controller and see if you can find a 6850 for about £80 (think OCUK have one up for that). Also, get a Fractal Arc Mini instead of that cheapo case, will be much easier to work with. Also, you don't need 2 optical drives it's just a waste, 1 will be fine. Do you really need a hotswap rack? Get rid of that too. All this money saved you might be able to squeeze a budget intel rig out of the budget
Josh Weston
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I think that, as it's a budget gaming rig, spending almost £50 on a fan controller is a little too much. And by little, I mean £50 too much.
Josh Weston
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I take it that you have Hard Drives and an operating system already?
jamesriley94
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Also, so you know, the Phenoms cant get RAM up to 1600mhz properly so it will only run at 1333mhz.
Agreeing with everyone else, get rid of the pointless things, just build the pc out of the best parts you can for the budget. Add on a fan controller and hot swap bay etc at a later date when you have more money for them.
Agreeing with everyone else, get rid of the pointless things, just build the pc out of the best parts you can for the budget. Add on a fan controller and hot swap bay etc at a later date when you have more money for them.
WillSK
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Didn't you post this thread already... We told you to get rid of the fan controller last time too. That said it's definitely an improvement on the build you posted last time. But yes the hot swap and fan controller need to go really. Unless you really need the hot swap.
Also is there any particular reason you're using a micro atx Motherboard? your case isn't micro so should fit a standard atx
Also is there any particular reason you're using a micro atx Motherboard? your case isn't micro so should fit a standard atx
Josh Weston
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Total: £399.30
A little better.
jamesriley94
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Total: £399.30
A little better.
agreed.
Also, you may want to look at bundles from Aria, as you can normally find some of decent value: http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Bundles/Home+and+Office+Bundles/
PetrolHead247
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Assuming you already have an OS and HDD, here's what you can do with £400
Fractal Arc Mini
MSI H77MA-G43
Intel i3 2120 (note: I think the new ivy bridge i3's are releasing very soon)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB (MSI Branded GPU)
8GB Corsair XMS3 1333MHz 2x4GB
430W Be Quiet Pure Power L8
Cooler Master Hyper TX3
EDIT: Josh beat me to it
Fractal Arc Mini
MSI H77MA-G43
Intel i3 2120 (note: I think the new ivy bridge i3's are releasing very soon)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB (MSI Branded GPU)
8GB Corsair XMS3 1333MHz 2x4GB
430W Be Quiet Pure Power L8
Cooler Master Hyper TX3
EDIT: Josh beat me to it
WillSK
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this would be a great build mate.. Take note!
seumasbeathan
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Both josh and petrolhead have suggested great builds for the price
dalewakelin
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Assuming you already have an OS and HDD, here's what you can do with £400
Fractal Arc Mini
MSI H77MA-G43
Intel i3 2120 (note: I think the new ivy bridge i3's are releasing very soon)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 1GB (MSI Branded GPU)
8GB Corsair XMS3 1333MHz 2x4GB
430W Be Quiet Pure Power L8
Cooler Master Hyper TX3
EDIT: Josh beat me to it
The hot swap is necessary however the fan controller is mainly for aesthetics, but i will take your advice and get most of those parts, it will be about 3 months before it gets built but i will seriously consider your advice
PetrolHead247
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Defo consider Josh's advice too. That 560 he linked is only £4 or £5 more than the 6850 so you should defo opt for that (the 560 is an awesome card). The Ivy Bridge i3's will be out in 3 months so opt for one of them. Also, why the need for the hot swap bays? I assume you have a lot of storage drives but if not it would be a waste
jamesriley94
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Can i ask why the hot swap is a complete must? It isnt that difficult to open the side up, leave a power cable free with the data already plugged in
dalewakelin
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Its for a shared computer, so its just easier to put your own drive in when you use it
Josh Weston
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There I was thinking I was fancy for having different user accounts, and here you are swapping hard drives every time you want to use it.
jamesriley94
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oh dear...
get a bigger hard drive and put accounts on it. It'll be so much more effort to change the bios settings every single time you boot into windows...
get a bigger hard drive and put accounts on it. It'll be so much more effort to change the bios settings every single time you boot into windows...
PetrolHead247
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Yup, just set up multiple user accounts, no need whatsoever to faff around with swapping HDD's around
SEBAR
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It is not a bad idea to use a hot swap drive with multiple users on the system. I have used a system like this in the past and it worked out well. If you want to keep you data secure then I would suggest using the hot swap. There is no need to change BIOS setting each time you switch users. A message will display on the screen warning you of the change, just hit enter and you are good to go.
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