Out of the loop for a while.. building from scratch.

Magill

Its been a few years since i've had a proper PC.. these laptops just aren't good enough.

Its mostly for uni (Studying Software Engineering, so lots of programming and although not really that intensive, it helps to be comfortable !). But i'd also like to dabble into some PC gaming again and do some video editing etc. So the ability to play the latest and some future games at a relatively high setting would be awesome.

Anyway the budget is about £800 (about 930euros i guess).. i'd rather go for something cheaper if its more bang per/buck.


I've had a look about and came up with this build.

Coolermaster Silencio 550 + 550w PSU - £99
Gigabyte GA Z68P ATX mobo - £72
Intel Core i5 2500k 3.3ghz 6mb cache - £170
Powercolor HD 6870 1GB Graphics Card £132
G-Skill 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz - £36
WD 500gb 7200rpm HDD - £85
DVD RW drive £14
Benq G2420HDB 24'' - Main Monitor £125
Benq G925HDA 18.5'' - Secondary Monitor - £65

Total Build Cost - £797 / 933euro

The dual monitor setup is a most - Don't need it to be too fancy, as long as one is decent for gaming and such then the second is very flexible as long as its cheap (Will mostly be for browsing/displaying notes etc)
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What do yous think ? Anything that looks like it'll bottleneck the rest of the system or anything that would be worth spending more on ?

(Im not sure if ebuyer is the cheapest or not, but doesn't seem too bad)

Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Magill

Im taking the lack of responses as a good thing. Gonna go ahead and order what i've posted above.

GEasy

Looks nice

GEasy

Would a separate case and psu not be cheaper?