Hi folks,
I am getting to the point where my four year old rig isn't cutting it with newer games, I am looking to upgrade. The budget I am setting is £900, but I'd prefer to do something for less. I am looking to run new games at a reasonable level, but I don't need to be blisteringly fast.
I live in SE Asia, so the temperature here is a big higher than normal (the coldest my living room ever gets is 24 degrees), so I need liquid cooling of some sort. My current PC doesn't have it, and doesn't overheat, but monitoring the temperatures, they are higher than I would like. Also, I chose the mobo and PSU with a view to adding a second GPU sometime in the future, so they are more than I need right now. I put a 500GB HDD in there, as I don't really do movies, or stuff like that, and have a plenty big enough external drive for my music and file backups. I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse already.
Could you offer me opinions on this? I'm happy to start from scratch if folks have better ideas; whilst I am familiar with PC hardware in general terms, I am not up with specifics of any given area. The kind of thing I am looking for is something that can compete with the PC Gamer Rig for price and performance.
Case
COOLERMASTER ELITE 430 BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8P67 PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™ / SLI SUPPORT
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX465 - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - DirectX® 11, ***SPECIAL***
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD5002AALX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W TX SERIES (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET PSU (£99)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£49)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
BFPO (BRITISH FORCES POST OFFICE) (FREE)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Quantity
1
Price: £895.00 including VAT and delivery.
Thanks!
Shane
I am getting to the point where my four year old rig isn't cutting it with newer games, I am looking to upgrade. The budget I am setting is £900, but I'd prefer to do something for less. I am looking to run new games at a reasonable level, but I don't need to be blisteringly fast.
I live in SE Asia, so the temperature here is a big higher than normal (the coldest my living room ever gets is 24 degrees), so I need liquid cooling of some sort. My current PC doesn't have it, and doesn't overheat, but monitoring the temperatures, they are higher than I would like. Also, I chose the mobo and PSU with a view to adding a second GPU sometime in the future, so they are more than I need right now. I put a 500GB HDD in there, as I don't really do movies, or stuff like that, and have a plenty big enough external drive for my music and file backups. I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse already.
Could you offer me opinions on this? I'm happy to start from scratch if folks have better ideas; whilst I am familiar with PC hardware in general terms, I am not up with specifics of any given area. The kind of thing I am looking for is something that can compete with the PC Gamer Rig for price and performance.
Case
COOLERMASTER ELITE 430 BLACK CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8P67 PRO: USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™ / SLI SUPPORT
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX465 - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - DirectX® 11, ***SPECIAL***
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
500GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD5002AALX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (7200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
CORSAIR 850W TX SERIES (TX850) 80+ ULTRA QUIET PSU (£99)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£49)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
BFPO (BRITISH FORCES POST OFFICE) (FREE)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Quantity
1
Price: £895.00 including VAT and delivery.
Thanks!
Shane
