Spec me a thing with some stuff

Post by **Roman Totale** » June 15th, 2009, 17:18

Following on from Shada's disco board post, I am reminded that my PC is pretty much shagged. The only "new" new things in there is the motherboard (Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2 x 2GHz) and the graphics card (Nvidia 8800 GTS - 320mb I think).

Anyway, basic question is how much would I have to spend to get a top notch PC (and I don't mean needlessly top notch) and what sort of things should I get? I someone could compile a shopping list that would be super. Then, when I can afford to buy it, I'll have to pay one of you fuckers to set the bloody thing up.

Budget wise I was thinking between £1-2K, but like I say I don't won't to be getting something just for the sake of it (i.e. water cooling - I'd only end up killing myself).

Cheers mother bitches.

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 15th, 2009, 17:26

It needs one of these:

Post by **Grimmie** » June 15th, 2009, 17:33

That looks fairly uncomfortable.

Mr. Johnson · Post by **Mr. Johnson** » June 15th, 2009, 18:30

Not if you have the ass of a faaabulous man Sherrif. WOOP WOOP!

Post by **tandino** » June 15th, 2009, 18:32

Grimmie wrote:That looks fairly uncomfortable.

The ladies love 'em.

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 15th, 2009, 18:49

How's that for some speed thread derailment?

Sorry Roman.

Post by **Roman Totale** » June 15th, 2009, 19:31

But that's just the sort of thing I was looking for.

Sort of.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 15th, 2009, 19:51

Damn you and your well paid job!

Mental but not too mental you say?

Take one, go -

i7 920 D0 - £212.99
Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4 £166.99
EVGA GeForce GTX 285 "Superclocked 55nm" 1024MB £319.99
Corsair HX 850W ATX Modular £134.99
OCZ Gold 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 2000MHz x2 £195.98
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB x2 £133.98

£1164.93

I'm not going to bother with optical drives or a case, because opticals are much of a muchness.

Case depends on if you like lights, some lights, no lights. A case fit to hold that

hefty creature would be ~£200 for shiny aluminium from zalman/lian li. Or you could put it in a coolermaster haf or an antec 900 2 for ~£90, but they have lots of lights and are quite noisy.

Possibly a small solid state drive for super speed, ~£200 for a ~60GB drive. I personally don't rate these as worth it (yet).

Post by **Roman Totale** » June 15th, 2009, 19:57

I'm not one for flashiness so the lights can get to fuck.

When you say optical drives do you mean things like DVD player/reader? Remember, I'm a tech mong.

All cool so far.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 15th, 2009, 20:10

Roman Totale wrote:When you say optical drives do you mean things like DVD player/reader? Remember, I'm a tech mong.

Yes, CD/DVD/BluRay be optical drives

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 15th, 2009, 20:18

Yes, I do. Although there is of course blu-ray/writers now. An LG BD writer can be yours for about £150.

I suggest looking at ocuk or posting what you want from a case in terms of colour, size, bendyness and so on.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 15th, 2009, 20:23

Oh and you will need to drop a wedge on some big old monitors to go with that rig. Anything less than 24" and the monitor itself is the bottleneck on graphics quality. £250+ for a monitor that will show off the rather immense power of that system.

And you'll need Fista 64 if you buy it soon, XP is buh bye and 32 bit fista isn't going to cut the mustard will the 12GB of ram I specced.

Win7 64 bit RC will do the job but the final release is still a while off plus I figure you'll not be wanting that as a primary install (unless you like being mental)

Lee · Post by **Lee** » June 15th, 2009, 22:20

You could get an ATI 4890 for £145 instead of a GTX 285: http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.p ... =GX-124-XF

It's within a couple of fps of the GTX 285 performance wise and I doubt you could tell the difference between the two in practice.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 16th, 2009, 0:30

I'd do what Pete said, but only buying one set of rams for now, unlikely to need more than 6gb for a while, depends on your budget though.

I'd be wary of ATI graphics cards, they're plenty fast enough, but some of the driver/game support can be poor (though this is getting better) not many big titles fail horribly, but a few older ones do (CoH springs to mind, and I had some problems with CoDUO, but I'm not sure how that is now)

That's not to say a high end nvidia card is certainly the way to go, just that the grass isn't all that greener on the red side.

Also, I'd set enough aside for a 24" monitor or two. This would be a good place to start.

Possibly worth considering a soundcard too, depending on the quality of the onboard (it's an easy upgrade, so do it after)

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » June 16th, 2009, 6:52

I was going to post a link to my thread as I was in a very similar starting point to you, but then I saw your budget, and thought that you probably wouldn't want two of my setups.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » June 16th, 2009, 8:50

I recently did the lazy man's option with Over Cockers: click the Gaymer version, max out all the optional bits, buy 2 shiny 24" monitors, enjoy. It arrived 2 days later and is working very nicely.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 16th, 2009, 11:12

You missed the add ~20% to the price of the components to have them bash it together part.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 16th, 2009, 11:22

HereComesPete wrote:You missed the add ~20% to the price of the components to have them bash it together part.

and there's any number of 5punkers who'll put a machine together/set it up for a bottle or 2 of alcohol.

Post by **HereComesPete** » June 16th, 2009, 11:38

I did it for Lat for ten regal and a handjob in the cinema's carpark...

Post by **fabyak** » June 16th, 2009, 13:40

HereComesPete wrote:I did it for Lat for ten regal and a handjob in the cinema's carpark...

Don't go down that route though, Pete is rubbish as hand jobs