Suggestions

[fmgod]

I have about £400-£600(more if need be) to whack on a complete new system top to bottom except monitor so I need everything from case to CPU, what can you guys suggest as I'm more to upgrade very old machines and make them Windows 7 such as Pentium 4's etc.

I will mainly be using it for Football Manager, Photoshop, Itunes, Firefox, lots of things running at once basically.

Thanks been a long time lurker

Also would take any suggestions for a decent keyboard and mouse as mine are useless the only thing I have in place is a good monitor as the old system can go as most of it is archaic or getting there.

 

[INMATE183]

Long time lurker should look here

 

[AMDFTW]

job done

 

[fmgod]

The thing is I don't need the graphics to be tip top, Football Manager is hardly graphics cutting and only rarely do I use PS, would sooner ramp up the Processor to an i5 or i7 Sandy Bridge?

 

[AMDFTW]

then look at the system i linked to then choose a diff GPU the cpu,mobo,ram,cooler is the onlything thats a bundle the rest can be changed

 

[INMATE183]

5770 is about £100 or a 6850 or 460 for £150 that will bump the price down. Try and spend as much as you can stretch as it will be more future proof.

 

[fmgod]

Cheers guys, I love my music what would you suggest for that, it will be listened to through headphones.

 

[INMATE183]

onboard sound is 'alright' you can get an ok sound card for £20-30. The asus xonar range has some cheapo ones which perform, creative ive had some issues with drivers but I dont have a massive knowledge on recent ones. I use a yamaha o1x

 

[fmgod]

I've decided on an I7 SandyBrdige with 8gb Mushkin ram, what else can people suggest to go with it include mobo, gfx card, psu, case, fans etc

 

[alicarve]

Depends on your budget but heres what i personally would get

Mobo: gigabyte P67A-UD7

GPU: GTX 570

PSU: Corsair tx750

Case: NZXT Phantom

Fans: Noctua/NZXT

Heatsink: Noctua NH-D14

 

[fmgod]

Got about a £600-£700 budget

 

[alicarve]

Mobo: gigabyte P67A-UD7 - £280

GPU: GTX 560 - £210

PSU: Corsair tx650 - £65

Case: NZXT Phantom - £105

Fans: Noctua/NZXT

Heatsink: Noctua NH-D14 -£60

well with all of that comes to £660 leaves you 40 to spend on extra fans

 

[fmgod]

What you think of this?

BitFenix Survivor CORE, Black, Mid Tower Case with Handle w/o PSU

750W Coolermaster RS750-ACAAE3-UK GX, 80 PLUS, 85% Eff', SLI/CrossFire, EPS 12V, 120mm Fan

Intel Core i7 2600K Unlocked, Socket 1155, Sandy Bridge, Quad Core, 3.4 GHz, 8MB Cache, 95W, OEM

Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus, 4 Heat Pipes, with 120mm Quiet Fan LGA775/1155/1156/1366/AM2/AM2+/AM3

8gb Mushkin

Asus P8P67 Pro, Intel P67 Express, S 1155, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 2200(OC), SATA 6Gb/s, SATA RAID

 

[fmgod]

Corsair TX Series 750W ATX2.2 SLI/Crossfire Compliant Power Supply - 70

Coolermaster Elite 430 Midi Tower with Window - Black - 35

MSI P67A-GD55 Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 PCI-Express Motherboard - 110

8GB Patriot G2 Division 2 Edition (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 'SandyBridge' 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit - 70

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - OEM - 195

EVGA GeForce GTX 460 SC (SUPERCLOCKED) 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express - 125

Total - 720

 

[alicarve]

just found this which is pretty good but you don't get the fun of building it yourself http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Gaming+Range/Gladiator/Anarchy+GTX+P67+Gaming+PC+?productId=43228

ah i thought you had the cpu and ram already

2600k dont know where you can find the 2600k for 199 but thats worth it

8Gb Mushkin Ridgeback pc3-15000 £115 aria.co.uk

Msi p67A-GD55 again for 110 thats worth it

Corsair tx650w £64 aria.co.uk

Xigmatek Midgard £51 aria.co.uk

noctua nh-d14 £60

Asus GTX460 1gb £130 overclockers.co.uk

total 730

depends what you prefer tbh