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Like the title suggests i can spend between £1000 - £2000 *Maybe £3000 if Gear will last some time*

Rather new to the specifics of Gaming rigs and dont want to **** up the Equipment
Gained a bit of knowledge mind with searching etc...

Dont mind Nvida or Radeon
(Radeon has Dx11 atm right?) thinking of futrue is all with that comment

Not sure the diffrence with AMD or Intel mind *some info appreciated*

Would love a machine that tops this spec by a long shot
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Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
RAM: 2048MB Dual Channel DDR2
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT
Video memory: 512MB
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Or at least able to run the latest Fps games well...

Guess the main question here is Best machine spec for 2k

Been looking at allot of the custom Gaming sites and honestly i allways end up with £3500+ machines lol

Help a noob out !

Reply to Roflranger

Where abouts are you, I could build you one.....

Im in Essex if that helps and i can come and install it.

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Reply to Hellboy

He's got some half price TV's....

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Audiovoodoo wrote :

He's got some half price TV's....

yeah theyre all out of date as 3d is comming this year.

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Reply to Hellboy

heh sorry wasted post been at Ocuk...

This will be my spec:
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XFX ATI Radeon HD 5970 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail

Asus Crosshair III Formula AMD 790FX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

Corsair 4GB (2X2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel Kit
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Was toying with Ssd but some say if you have an Ssd and a sata in same rig the Ssd will be as fast as the sata !? nvm...

Im happy with a 300gb Velociraptor and 1tb sata
Wanted a Zalman GT900 Z-Machine Case but at £265 no way !

I lowerd my Budget to current sytem is at £1,472 including a ram cooler and cpu cooler aswell as windows 7

I will need to raise my powersupply i think currently have a 650 wat Corsair ill probably go 7-750 wat for some future upgrades

Well what ya think !

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Reply to Roflranger

Roflranger wrote :

all good

would go for more ram 8 gb or more.. and get windows 7 - 64

the veloceraptor is a good drive but ssd is still not worth it imho... the capacities are just to small for the amount of money they are...

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Reply to Hellboy

What resolution are you gaming at? A 5970 is overkill (and overpriced) at the moment unless you play at 2560x1600. A 5870 is a cheaper and more power-efficient choice, saving you money in the short term (both on the video card and the PSU) and in the long term through the leccy bill.

You might think you are future proofing yourself with the more expensive card, but by the time there are games that actually require that kind of hardware there will be cheaper single GPU cards available.

With the money saved, do what Hellboy says and get more RAM and make sure you have the 64-bit version of windows.

Reply to thereptilehouse

My adjustments:

4GB Patriot Sector 5 Viper II 1600MHz (8GB is easily affordable)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] =MY-026-PA

Sapphire Radeon 5870 Vapor-X
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] =GX-218-SP

SSD-wise it's entirely up to you, but you'd have to spend twice the money on an SSD (or RAID 0 array) big enough to load in all the games - Windows 7 takes a huge chunk on its own not leaving much space for games on a single SSD.

Go Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB for your other drive.

If you're looking at dropping in another 5870 down the road, I'd get a Corsair HX750 or even a HX850 PSU now which will give you plenty of room for future upgrades.

Case-wise Overclockers now have in the Silverstone Fortress FT02 at £180 ;-) otherwise there is the pure black Cosmos for about the same, or hell the trusty Antec 902 for about £90

Reply to LePhuronn

amd 965 is good for mid/high gaming, if you have the money go for i7 its the best out

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robin banks uk wrote :

you amd 965 is good for mid/high gaming, if you have the money go for i7 its the best out

It's overkill for gaming unless you're going to run a ridiculous graphics setup like Crossfire 5970s or SLI GTX480s

An overclocked Phenom II X4 955 BE with a good AM3 motherboard will fuel today's top-end cards with data no problem, and probably will do for a good couple of years yet.

So, the money saved on going AM3 can go towards a monster GPU.

Reply to LePhuronn

yep but the i7 will last some time.

Reply to robin banks uk

why not a phenom II x6 1055t

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why not a phenom II x6 1055t

Because the additional cores offer no performance boost to games, and at 2.8GHz it will perform worse in games than the 3.2GHz Phenom II X4 955 BE.

Still, the chip can overclock nicely and it'd be a good investment for other non-gaming uses.

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What Venom CPU are you all talking about?

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