This is the computer i'm thinking of buying:

Antec 300 £49.66 // Fractal R3 £81.58 (SCAN) £84.75 (ebuyer)

EVGA GeForce GTX 460 FTW 1024MB £147.386 (EVGA)

Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz Socket 1155 6MB Cache £182.70 (SCAN) £184.79 (ebuyer)

Asus P8P67 LE P67 £112.40 (SCAN) £106.84 (ebuyer)

Antec True Power New 650W Modular PSU 80Plus Bronze SLi £67.16 (SCAN)

Samsung Spinpoint F3 1Tb £40.78 (SCAN)

G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) £31.98 (newegg)

TOTAL: £659

Logitech MX 518 £17 (amazon)

SteelSeries Surface QcK+ £9 (amazon)

Sennheiser PC 151 - Headset £28.55 (amazon)

NEW TOTAL: £714

Thoughts?

i have sennheiser PC 350 its awesome

and i'd go with more memory, like 8gb

More memory can be added easily later though. If your mobo only has two RAM slots you should buy one 4GB stick instead of two 2GB sticks.

As much as I'd love a PC 350, it's rather more expensive. If people have suggestions, it'd be awesome if they were similarly priced because I'm working on a budget.

Oh deja vu anyone.

Only thing I would change is your cpu and graphics card. But you won't. I can link you to a better cpu if you'd like but it's amd. Might be a bit too good for you.

Get a soundcard?!

On board sound with newer generation mobos is pretty decent. Not amazing, but good enough for the time being.

The i5-2500K is a good budget CPU, dux. Great overclock potential too. I'm sure AMD have good alternatives, but...

(oh yeah forgot to mention that AMD and ATI = aids)

link that shit anyway duxophile

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 970 Black Edition "140W Edition" 3.50GHz (Socket AM3) £143.99 inc VAT


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-275-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328


Or if you are feeling fancy, you can go for the newer 6 core

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-266-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1328

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) £188.99 inc VAT

Though the more cores you have, the slower clocked they are.

Also for graphics cards, this ATI one is far superior and cheaper:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-248-SP&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1515

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770 Flex Eyeinfinity 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £122.54 inc VAT

Have ATI fixed their 120hz issues yet?

AMD mobos are overall cheaper than Intel, so if you find about equal cpu:s from both go AMD. Dunno at all what the situation is now. I think intel was releasing some new models (WITH KILLSWITCH).

The computer you posted tweadle is probably the best you can buy now for that price.

There's actually not much of discussion in this. Maybe a less horrible case but that's it. I have those same memories and running at 1600Mhz on stock they're at ambient temperature, they don't heat a single bit.

ATI?











LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL GOOD ONE OLI

The i5-2500K smacked both of those phenoms in the benchmarks:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/03/intel-sandy-bridge-review/9

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/03/intel-sandy-bridge-review/10

Looking into the possibility of changing the graphics card though but the HD 5770 gets dicked on too:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/09/13/nvidia-geforce-gts-450-review/5

You know, even my 4870 beats that 5770...

The difference isn't all that much for the asking price. And as for the card just get the next model up, not much price difference. I chose that one for price vs performance, that's the whole point. If you honestly just want to throw money at the best numbers you can see then by all means go intel and nvidia. The benchmarks clearly show a slightly better result but you don't really get that much more performance for the investment.

Yea for £25 quid you get a 33% performance increase on L4D2, it's a total waste of money isn't it Oli!?

Yeah, l4d is shit.

In regards to the mouse, all i can say about is most of mx518 products are defect by freezing frequently. So, the laser in the mouse tends to act very strange by not responding. I've had and heard many stories about mx518 that tends to freeze up while gaming. I recommend you to reconsider this choice.

ummm... lights?

i5-2500k is great. Great value for money and good OC'ing possibilities.

I've got like 3 MX518's and 1 MX510's ordered from different shops around Europe and each of them has broken up by (random freezing). Apparently you could fix that by cutting the cable out and reconnecting the cords but I haven't tried that.

I got Razer Deathadder 3500DPI now and its great. Doesn't wear much, doesn't break up and has great drivers.

I'm currently using a mx518 that I fixed by opening it up and getting all techie on it's ass so i'm not too concerned. If you want to send me yours jiriki, i'd be happy to take them ;).

Also considering the Coolermaster Inferno. I like the idea of lots of buttonsssss:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/peripherals/2010/08/29/cm-storm-inferno-review/1

Lots of buttons, brr

If you're truly a spastic get this http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=136640

Intel Core i5 2500K Unlocked, Socke 1 £147.15
Asus P8P67, Intel P67 Express, S 11 1 £95.67
650W Antec TruePower New, Modular, 1 £57.97
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-1 1 £30.12
Fractal Design Define R3, Black Pea 1 £64.98
1TB Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3, S 1 £33.98
1GB MSI GTX 460 HAWK, 3600MHz GDDR5 1 £133.06
Gelid Tranquillo 4 Heatpipe + PWM, 1 £20.97

bought it just now with pc151 speakers and Storm Inferno Mouse

Way to pick like the shittest mouse ever Thom...

I updated my comp too:

i5-2500k 230e
Asus P8P67 160e (watch out, loads of problems with default bios)
Palit GTX570 350e
4x2GB DDR3 1333Mhz ~100e
Corsair TX750W 120e
Some Bluray drive

- Noctua NH-U12P as cooler from previous CPU
- Previous Samsung's 2233RZ as a monitor.
- Previous Qck+ Steelseries + Deathadder work just fine
- Some SATAII drives for space.
- Antec Three Hundred as case

Radeon's are probably better for NS2 (lower cores) and Nvidia's better for old OpenGL games like NS1. Radeon's have more raw rendering power (faster cores) but Nvidia's have much more shader calculating power (which NS2 does not use atm. afaik). And you can hack 6970 from 6950.

If my mouse is too shit, i'll just swap it with my mx518. I totally forgot about a dvd/bluray drive WOOPS

'Tweadle'Storm Inferno Mouse




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