Hi all.

Well the time has come for me to upgrade. Whats that i hear you say? "nathan needs to upgrade his 1337 pc?!" No!

Here's the deal. We have a PC in the games room at my house. Its hooked up to a projector which we use to play music, games, movie etc whenever we have guests round.

Unfortunately, this PC is getting oooold, and is struggling to play the newer games.

So, in february, im gonna be getting a new PC for in there.
This is where you guys come in.
My budget is £1000, with the absolute max being £1200.

I want you guys to find me the best gaming PC you can for this price. It does'nt matter whether its a already built machine, or whether it is in parts. If you do decide to show me parts for it, it needs to have EVERYTHING that includes motherboard, gfx, processor etc.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Frenchy

p.s, i know february is a long time away, but i just wanna start getting ideas etc

I'll help you pick something up if you can hook me up with pics or footage of your sexy K20 Sure looks like it would be a deadly beast.
~Bryan~

February is a long way off don't you think?

With all the stuff that is coming or on the horizon and the prices of stuff could rise or fall wouldn't it be best to wait until February to spec and price up a system?

You could choose the bits for a system now but it could be totally meaning less by then!

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ ... amp;catid=781&subcat=

Or, for the ATI inside you, x2...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ ... amp;catid=781&subcat=

Here's an SLI system i built up, seems better than the others.

CPU Heatsink:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ ... aspx?Item=N82E16835154001

Quote from mcintyrej :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ ... amp;catid=781&subcat=

Or, for the ATI inside you, x2...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/ ... amp;catid=781&subcat=

Here's an SLI system i built up, seems better than the others.

2x 8800's seems a little overkill - i'd rather get stuff like RAID0 HDD's and as lightly better make for the GFX card and get a 1337 monitor rather than a 2nd 8800GTX.

Quote from Jakg :

2x 8800's seems a little overkill - i'd rather get stuff like RAID0 HDD's and as lightly better make for the GFX card and get a 1337 monitor rather than a 2nd 8800GTX.

like i have said in my OP, i dont need anything like a monitor, only the tower, we already got it hooked upto a projector and a 24' Dell ultrasharp, so no need for any of that.

I suspose it is true that february is a long way off, i suspose i could just give this thread a bump when we get closer :/

Yeah, there's no point in building a PC if you're gonna buy it then. My way when I buy new stuff - research for ~5 days and go out and order parts.

It's like with the monitor I wanted to buy few weeks back.
On monday they had it this store near my office.
Next day it was gone and Samsung is no longer making it, and can't be found in whole country :\.

I think you get the point I am trying to make.

/me goes to bed

well...the new penryns are coming out november, you could get one of those

and for the Q6600, you dont really want the energy efficient one, just stick with the normal GO one

Quote from harjun :

well...the new penryns are coming out november, you could get one of those

and for the Q6600, you dont really want the energy efficient one, just stick with the normal GO one

Thanks for the advice, but we have decided to leave this thread until closer to february (january maybe?) so i have saved it in my favourites, and i shall bump it as we get closer.

Thanks

p.s dont you think you should change your sig harjun?

Quote from Nathan_French_14 :

Thanks for the advice, but we have decided to leave this thread until closer to february (january maybe?) so i have saved it in my favourites, and i shall bump it as we get closer.

Thanks

p.s dont you think you should change your sig harjun?

ok, sorry nathan

Quote from harjun :

and for the Q6600, you dont really want the energy efficient one, just stick with the normal GO one

The Energy Efficient one IS the G0 version.

For reference, a Penryn at 3.0 GHz is roughly the same performance as a Kentsfield (a Core 2-based Quad - i.e. Q6600) at 3.6 GHz. Include the fact that it runs cooler, and overclocks better, all while coming in at the same price as a Q6600 is now, while getting a CPU that comes stock a little quicker (2.66 vs 2.4 GHz).

Of course, there's going to be a lot of Q6600's going cheap on eBay, and they're still VERY nice CPU's. It's up to you...

(You will need a board which can support 1333 MHz FSB and 45 NM CPU's though)

Quote from Jakg :

The Energy Efficient one IS the G0 version.

For reference, a Penryn at 3.0 GHz is roughly the same performance as a Kentsfield (a Core 2-based Quad - i.e. Q6600) at 3.6 GHz. Include the fact that it runs cooler, and overclocks better, all while coming in at the same price as a Q6600 is now, while getting a CPU that comes stock a little quicker (2.66 vs 2.4 GHz).

Of course, there's going to be a lot of Q6600's going cheap on eBay, and they're still VERY nice CPU's. It's up to you...

(You will need a board which can support 1333 MHz FSB and 45 NM CPU's though)

a board like a p5k?

All P35 (ie Asus P5K, Gigabyte P35-DS3 etc) boards support 1333 MHz FSB / 45 NM CPU's, as do the 650i/680i boards afaik.

The 965 boards might be able to with a BIOS flash, but that's up to the Manufacturer doing it as and when they decide to, rather than it already being supported.