1000 Budget PC

Digy123 · 03-08-2012 12:18am #1

1. What is your budget? Under 1000

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming[Arma 2,BF3,TF2 and a few RTS games]

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? Yes

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? No

5. Do you need a monitor? Yes

5a. If yes, what size do you need. Any decent size

5b. If no, what resolution is your current monitor and do you plan to upgrade in the near future? No current monitor,Wont be upgrading after i get this

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? Wireless card would be nice to have

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? Probably not

8. How can you pay? Any

9. When are you purchasing? Soon

10. If you need help building it, where are you based? I dont think i will need help

PS:I would Really like an SSD aswell as a HDD,And i care about Astetics a bit eg Decent case,Internals.

Procrastastudy · 03-08-2012 2:13am

Looking good is very subjective. What do you think of the Corsair 600T? What about the 400R? Do you want something more 'boy racer'?

Digy123 · 03-08-2012 8:04am

GCDLawstudent wrote: »

Looking good is very subjective. What do you think of the Corsair 600T? What about the 400R? Do you want something more 'boy racer'?

I really like the 400R,It looks nice and seems good value

Procrastastudy · 03-08-2012 11:05am

- this is going to come in slightly over budget but you could scale down the case to fix that. Add €55 for windows from software4students.ie plus a score for a KB and mouse from somewhere. Sorry forgot the wireless card + another €20 :eek:

At the €1000 price point there are the inevitable 'a few quid gets you more' so bear in mind €25 will get you a 2TB HDD over the 1GB listed.

This has the latest gen Ivybridge processor. When ocing there is a debate whether its worth the extra money. In non-oc builds its well worth it imo.

The monitor is a 22" Acer - this is one area where I think you should think carefully. My last monitor (putting my brief foray into eyefinity aside) was with me for over seven years. I think its seen about 4 processor and GPU changes. I would think about what size, type (glossy/matte) etc you want and actually work the rest of the budget out around that. 27" is best for gaming ref immersion and all that 24" is the step down and much more budget friendly (in terms of monitor and graphics card (GPU)). 22" is the min I'd go for these days.

Let me know what you think!

Digy123 · 03-08-2012 8:10pm

GCDLawstudent wrote: »

Item|Price
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€37.24
Samsung SSD 830 128GB SATA 6GB's Paper Box|€102.51
Corsair Carbide Series 400R, ATX, ohne Netzteil|€84.36
Sony Optiarc AD-5280S-0B schwarz|€18.15
Intel Core i5-3450 Box, LGA1155|€183.20
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€42.18
Club 3D Radeon HD 7850 Coolstream Edition, 2GB GDDR5|€222.80
Seagate Barracuda Spinpoint HD103SJ 1TB SATA II|€74.90
ASRock B75 Pro3, Sockel 1155, ATX|€72.07
ASUS VE228T|€95.87
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€952.27

I created a rod for my own back when I showed you that case - this is going to come in slightly over budget but you could scale down the case to fix that. Add €55 for windows from software4students.ie plus a score for a KB and mouse from somewhere. Sorry forgot the wireless card + another €20 :eek:

At the €1000 price point there are the inevitable 'a few quid gets you more' so bear in mind €25 will get you a 2TB HDD over the 1GB listed.

This has the latest gen Ivybridge processor. When ocing there is a debate whether its worth the extra money. In non-oc builds its well worth it imo.

The monitor is a 22" Acer - this is one area where I think you should think carefully. My last monitor (putting my brief foray into eyefinity aside) was with me for over seven years. I think its seen about 4 processor and GPU changes. I would think about what size, type (glossy/matte) etc you want and actually work the rest of the budget out around that. 27" is best for gaming ref immersion and all that 24" is the step down and much more budget friendly (in terms of monitor and graphics card (GPU)). 22" is the min I'd go for these days.

Let me know what you think!

Many thanks! Im going to go with this,How do i use softwareforstudants tho?

Procrastastudy · 03-08-2012 8:28pm

Cant really discuss it here but look at software4students.ie and see if you qualify (do you know a student?) and then technically its an upgrade pack so needs to be installed in place of an existing OS. It would be against boards.ie policies to discuss how you can use an upgrade as a custom/clean install or even google it and provide a link to one of the many tutorials. Sorry.

EDIT if you can wait a week or so do - the nVidia 660ti thats coming out could be a game changer in recommended GPU specs

Digy123 · 07-08-2012 11:54am

GCDLawstudent wrote: »

Item|Price
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€37.24
Samsung SSD 830 128GB SATA 6GB's Paper Box|€102.51
Corsair Carbide Series 400R, ATX, ohne Netzteil|€84.36
Sony Optiarc AD-5280S-0B schwarz|€18.15
Intel Core i5-3450 Box, LGA1155|€183.20
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€42.18
Club 3D Radeon HD 7850 Coolstream Edition, 2GB GDDR5|€222.80
Seagate Barracuda Spinpoint HD103SJ 1TB SATA II|€74.90
ASRock B75 Pro3, Sockel 1155, ATX|€72.07
ASUS VE228T|€95.87
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€952.27

I created a rod for my own back when I showed you that case - this is going to come in slightly over budget but you could scale down the case to fix that. Add €55 for windows from software4students.ie plus a score for a KB and mouse from somewhere. Sorry forgot the wireless card + another €20 :eek:

At the €1000 price point there are the inevitable 'a few quid gets you more' so bear in mind €25 will get you a 2TB HDD over the 1GB listed.

This has the latest gen Ivybridge processor. When ocing there is a debate whether its worth the extra money. In non-oc builds its well worth it imo.

The monitor is a 22" Acer - this is one area where I think you should think carefully. My last monitor (putting my brief foray into eyefinity aside) was with me for over seven years. I think its seen about 4 processor and GPU changes. I would think about what size, type (glossy/matte) etc you want and actually work the rest of the budget out around that. 27" is best for gaming ref immersion and all that 24" is the step down and much more budget friendly (in terms of monitor and graphics card (GPU)). 22" is the min I'd go for these days.

Let me know what you think!

Are you sure that PSU will run that GPU because on HWVS it says that GPU needs a 700W PSU

Eboggles · 07-08-2012 12:02pm

Digy123 wrote: »

Are you sure that PSU will run that GPU because on HWVS it says that GPU needs a 700W PSU

Yeah it'd run it no problem. You'd have room left over to overclock the GPU a bit as well.

1000 Budget PC

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