Building my own (help)

gamer_Niall

I've decided to get a new pc for gaming, i here it's much cheaper to build your own, I've a little experience building them so i think i could do it

my budget is around 1500 euro

i play a lot of first person shooter games and the pc i have atm is rely old... it's a Dell DIMENSION 5150 lol bought it a few year back for 1500 :S

anyway i don't know much about the parts i need like what works with what ect

if anyone could give me some tips that would be great!

thanks!

massy086

will you need a operating system and a monitor in the 1500 budget

gamer_Niall

yep pretty much everything!

stephenmarr

this is what i built

CASE: Cooler Master HAF 932 Big Tower Black

MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD5 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3

CPU: Intel Core i5 750, S 1156

PSU: Corsair HX 750W PSU

GPU: XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850 XXX 1024MB GDDR5

RAM: Corsair Dominator XMS3 4GB DDR3 16000C9D Twin3X (TW3X4G1600C9D)

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit

HDD 1:Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache

HDD 2: Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache

CPU COOLER: Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler Socket LGA7751156

OPTICAL DRIVE:Sony Optiarc DRU-870S 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter

MOUSE: Logitech G15

KEYBOARD: Logitech Wave

MONITOR: Dell 2407WFP-HC

runs games perfect @ 1920x1200
eg. Bad Company 2 average 80fps with most settings on high
cannot remember the overall price but not far off €1500
already had the mouse,keyboard and monitor

gamer_Niall

ok thanks for that!! i will look up prices =p

gamer_Niall

anymore builds?

VenomIreland

gamer_Niall wrote: »

anymore builds?

Tell me what site you'd prefer to order from and I'll see if I have time to come up with something

gamer_Niall

komplett.ie mate

VenomIreland

I'll see what I can do when I get back at half one today

gamer_Niall

thanks!!

VenomIreland

Sorry for not having it up yet, will have it done soon.

VenomIreland

****, I forgot to add a DVD drive, but you can add one yourself or maybe salvage one from an old PC.

gamer_Niall

nice!

some questions though, why the i5 and not i7? whats the difference between the 2?

and i can use the key board mouse and speakers from my old pc so - them =p

how good is that graphics card?
in my pc i got now i have an GeForce 9400 GT 1GB and i average around 50-100 fps on the first person shooters i play how much better would the 5830 do?

thanks a lot man!

seraphimvc

there is hardly any performance difference between i5 and i7, it is just the i7 has the lower power consumption(google for the advantage of this :pac:).for us normal consumers would rather spend the extra bucks on the other parts for teh build.

little tips for the saphire 5830, last time i bought it for 180e from pixmania. beside of the price wise , 5830 is known to have some driver issue for some owners,beware tho.

gamer_Niall

thanks for that!

gamer_Niall

I've got a build here i just made myself i need someone to just have a look, I'm not that experienced at picking parts but i had a go take a look tell me what you think if i need anything else added or taken away.

Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 - Full tower - extended ATX

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 - Motherboard - ATX - iP55 -
LGA1156 Socket - UDMA133, SATA-300 (RAID), eSATA -

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate - Licence and media -
1 PC - OEM - DVD - 32-bit - English

Processor: 1 x Intel Core i5 670 / 3.46 GHz

Graphics Card: Radeon HD 5870 Vapor-X - 2 GB GDDR5 - PCI-Express 2.0

Memory: Corsair Dominator - Memory - 6 GB : 3 x 2 GB -
DIMM 240-pin - DDR3 - 1866 MHz / PC3-15000 - CL9 -

Hard Drive/Disk Drive: Hard Drive: WESTERN DIGITAL Caviar Green 2TB - SATA - 64MB - Hard Drive
SAMSUNG SH-B083L Bluray, DVD/CD Rewriter

Monitor: LG W2243S-PF 22'' wide TFT Screen (5 ms)
5 ms, VGA

Power: CoolerMaster Silent Pro M700 700watt


think thats it.

deceit

As its only dual channel ram would remove 2gb of the 6 and put the extra towards getting a 24" monitor http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/3115539/art/lg/w2443t-pf-24-tft-screen-5.html

gamer_Niall

ok so 4gb it is, is everything else ok? will it all work together?

massy086

no you want the i5-750 as the one you picked is only 2 core,s were the 750 has 4 core,s much better mother board is overkill to

deceit

They will but I would choose an i750 instead as the benifit of the 670 is wasted as you would have no real use for the graphics core and its only a dual core cpu but does have a lower power output. I would prefer the quad as alot of programs and some games are taking advantage of the quads now.

gamer_Niall

ok so what do i need to change lol name the parts if you can =p

massy086

hang on 1 sec im doing a build now 4 you are u buying from pixmania do u need a dvd drive

gamer_Niall

im buying from there and kompett

and yes

my budget is under 1500

massy086

[IMG][/img] well thats a great build i have the same but a different graphics card its a great build in my option

gamer_Niall

mite have to tweek that a lil gimme sec

what card you got?

what games you play?

massy086

iv a gtx295 but it would be somewere near yours but yours would be better were do u have to tweak?????

gamer_Niall

needs to be less than 1500 lol

including shipping :S

massy086

i would take from the graphics card then it mad money and not needed try this http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/5050029/art/sapphire-technology/radeon-hd-5870-1-gb-gddr5.html

gamer_Niall

look at this

massy086

nah i would leave the build i said but change the gpu the msi gd 45 would not be a gret board

gamer_Niall

ok i'll go for the 1GB and im going to leave the monitor out and use my old one i have, see how much it all costs then. i'll put it up when i sort it all out thanks a lot for your help man!