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Offline Osmo

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Building a new PC - Help if any problems?
« on: July 09, 2012, 05:05:49 PM »
Approximate Purchase Date: This week
Budget: £625
System Usage:  Gaming
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: (amazon UK) (Overclockers) (ebuyer)
Country: England
Overclocking: no
SLI or Crossfire: no
Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

CPU: Intel i5 3450 [£150]
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77-DS3H[£70]
GPU: ATI Radeon 5870 1GB DDR5 [£100]
Ram: Corsair 8gb 1600 MHZ [£40]
Case: K-720B Gaming Case [£35]
Cooler: Water cooler Antec 620 [£55]
PSU: OCZ Technology ZS Series 650W [£55]
Memory: Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATAIII [£50] / OCZ 128GB Octane Series SATA 3Gb/s 2.5" SSD [£58]
Driver: Sony 24x DVD-RW SATA Black Bare Internal Drive [£12]


Would like some advice on compatibility, and if there is a problem with the build. Thanks.
« Last Edit: July 09, 2012, 05:44:34 PM by Osmo »
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Offline rostheferret

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Re: Building a new PC - Help if any problems?
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2012, 05:38:32 PM »
Almost identical to my build :P That said, get a better graphics card. I paid £100 for a 5770 two years ago...
« Last Edit: July 09, 2012, 05:49:50 PM by rostheferret »

Offline Osmo

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Re: Building a new PC - Help if any problems?
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2012, 05:45:23 PM »
Gone over budget. The graphics care is like £200 cheaper then online, getting it off friend. he can up date later.
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I was born in it, built in it.
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Offline rostheferret

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Re: Building a new PC - Help if any problems?
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2012, 05:50:42 PM »
Just had a quick look, you can get a 6870 for the same price off of amazon whilst the 5870s are close to double that :/

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Re: Building a new PC - Help if any problems?
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2012, 10:45:20 PM »
Uhh... We really should put all these similar threads into one.
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Re: Building a new PC - Help if any problems?
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2012, 06:02:13 AM »
faults that you could've saved money on:

1) PSU 400-500watts is enough if you arent going CF/SLI.
2) you don't need water cooling if you arent overclocking, Hyper 212+ EVO will suffice for the cooling needs.
3) 120GB SSDs has a better capacity/$ value, meaning its cheaper.
4) grab an HD7850 instead, if you do this then even 400watts of PSU will be enough.

Edit: also you might wanna check this thread out - http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=34683.0
« Last Edit: July 10, 2012, 06:06:39 AM by kitamesume »

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