Yet another build request

QuickSilver7 · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:39

I'm looking to replace my ancient (6 years old) pc. I'm not entirely sure of budget but I'm guessing £600 for PC & £200 for monitor, but there is flexibilty in this - for the right reasons.

I guess it's easier to specify what I want to do with it..

I play MMO's like LOTRO & DDO so I'm assuming I don't need all the oomph you'd need for something like crysis.

I'm also trying to develop into landscape photography (very early days but wish I'd realised this is what I wanted to do in life 20 years ago!). This is where the monitor comes into it... fast enough for the games I play yet having a decent enough (for my untraied eye) colour representation etc.

Thanks in advance for your replys

stulid · 4 Jul 2011 at 22:39

Do you need a operating system, keyboard, mouse etc?

QuickSilver7 · 4 Jul 2011 at 23:10

I have a mouse and keyboard, but do need the os (my old pc was still running xp!). I have an antec tower case... but can't see the model with my man eyes.

stulid · 4 Jul 2011 at 23:15

Well I conjured this up.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Dell Ultrasharp U2311H 23" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £229.99
(£191.66) £229.99
(£191.66)
OcUK GeForce GTX 560 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £145.99
(£121.66) £145.99
(£121.66)
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £145.99
(£121.66) £145.99
(£121.66)
Microsoft Windows 7 Bundle - Home Premium 64 Bit £68.40
(£57.00) £68.40
(£57.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKX) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
XFX Pro 550W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £54.98
(£45.82) £54.98
(£45.82)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £34.99
(£29.16) £34.99
(£29.16)
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.49) £14.99
(£12.49)
Sub Total : £654.43
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £133.64
Total : £801.82

• Use your case, the motherboard is M-ATX so should fit.
• Intel Sandybdridge i5 2400 - http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i5-2500-2400-2300.html
• Win7+HDD bundle is a good price.

Then there is the IPS Dell monitor,

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2311h.htm
http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&id=1275291737
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/monitors/display/dell-eips-roundup_6.html#sect0

Which should be about as good as it gets for colour reproduction and good gaming, tilt and swivel stand too.

A few options if you want to spend the extra?

8GB of RAM is on special offer till 09.00hrs tomorrow - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-094-KS

A i5 2500K and a P67/Z68 motherboard will allow you to overclock,

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-360-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1275
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-167-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1906

A Z68 motherboard also usually features SSD caching and Lucid virtu.

tidusjar · 4 Jul 2011 at 23:20

And once again stulid wins!

olivier renault · 4 Jul 2011 at 23:29

I surrender.

Admiral Huddy · 5 Jul 2011 at 08:25

olivier renault said:
I surrender.

I never started

You do a fine job stulid.. I've got no idea how you do this.

denjing51m · 5 Jul 2011 at 08:30

Dam!

Stulid i should throw you my spec and see what you would do with that

QuickSilver7 · 5 Jul 2011 at 09:59

That's some amazingly quick specs!

Temptation... temptation. I think I'm definitely interested in the upgrade options, including a SSD & blue ray player. Will the oc mean changes to power supply & cooling?

Thanks for the great response so far

QuickSilver7 · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:52

QuickSilver7 · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:53

ok... how do I post an inage of my cart lol?? :confused:

BIGBC · 12 Jul 2011 at 13:57

You're better off with Stulid's spec.

Print screen it and upload image to something like photobucket.

QuickSilver7 · 12 Jul 2011 at 15:12

Well I guess the main thing was trying to save some pennies by choosing the AMD Phenom which can be overclocked and would I see any difference in the performance for the things that I use it for.

procrastination is an art form ya know

need to create a photobucket / flickr account. grrr

QuickSilver7 · 14 Jul 2011 at 18:35

Back again! Can I ask for a spec based on:

1. i5 2500k & P67
2. i5 2500k & Z68 & SSD

Once again, thanks in advance

edit

Also need a keyboard since the cat has chewed through the cable!

QuickSilver7 · 14 Jul 2011 at 22:01

Oh and what's the benefits / issues with retail or oem?

Buchanan0204 · 14 Jul 2011 at 22:17

QuickSilver7 said:
Oh and what's the benefits / issues with retail or oem?

Retail = 3 year warranty + heatsink

OEM = 1 year warranty and no heatsink.

Murray · 14 Jul 2011 at 22:20

QuickSilver7 said:
Oh and what's the benefits / issues with retail or oem?

oem windows can only be used on one pc(motherboard) I think?

Oem CPUs have 1 year warranrty compared to the 3 retail gets or something?