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Help Putting together a gaming rig
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Posted November 27, 2012 at 4:04PM
Hey guys. I have a budget of 1.5k and im looking for peoples opinions on what components I should use to put together a rig that will provide the best possible gaming experience. The budget is for the tower alone as i have the monitor etc.
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Posted November 27, 2012 at 6:19PM
Is this a rig you will be building yourself or are you looking for prebuilt as you can get an excellent PC for that sort of cash.
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Posted November 27, 2012 at 6:37PM
It is one that i am going to build myself (with help) although always open to prebuilt if the perfect one came along. My knowledge is not huge so I am trying to put the question to different people to see what they would actually come up with given the 1.5k budget. Maximum performance is key for me but being able to upgrade in future would be nice too.
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Posted November 27, 2012 at 6:51PM
I have been building for some years now and although it probably is more of a labour of love now as opposed to being very much cheaper and believe that a great deal of the fun is researching components.
I am on the phone at the moment and will not be on my PC until tomorrow where I will post a spec or two.
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Posted November 27, 2012 at 7:06PM
I agree with you. This is the first time I have had time to build and I am currently enjoying looking at different things. Although there is alot to it!
If you could post a spec that would be fantastic and greatly appriciated.
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Posted November 27, 2012 at 7:27PM
Transferred to our Games forum from Tech Consumer advice.
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Posted November 28, 2012 at 10:32AM
Here we go.
Mobo. Z77X-UD3H
CPU i5 3570K
RAM Corsair Vengeance
PSU EVGA SuperNova NEX 650W
Cooler Corsair H100i Hydro CPU Cooler
SSD Samsung 256GB 830
HDD 1TB Harddrive
GPU GTX 670
Optical DVD Writer
Sound card Asus Xonar DGX 5.1
I have not included the case as that is something I feel you should look for yourself as it is you that will be looking at it. But you want to be looking for good airflow from front to back preferably with exhaust from the top. As I have included the H100 cooler ,which has a twin fan/radiator, you need to have two fan points at the top of the case though it is simple enough to swap the cooler for a single fan radiator, this.
This is just a guide and comes to around £1004 and you will notice that the components are all from Scan Computing. That is only because I buy most of my components there and they have excellent customer service should anything go wrong.
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Posted November 29, 2012 at 3:06PM
Thanks for the advice man!! Really helpful i will start ordering components soon!.
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Posted November 29, 2012 at 4:07PM
To add to Chronos the 2nd's good advice: I have a Core i5 3570k, running at 4.5GHz, cooled with an Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro This is performing very well inside a Zalman Z9 case (below 40C running Prime95 on all cores) and very quite too.
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Posted November 29, 2012 at 5:05PM
Mr Mistoffelees
Good coolers, but I must admit to being hooked on the self contained water coolers. Just downsized my case (see specs) //Lian Li V354A//Gigabyte H77-D3H//I5 2500K //CM Hyper TX3 //8GB XMS3 Classic 1600 MHz//Asus Direct CU 11 GTX 670//128GB Crucial m4//2 x 1TB HDD//Corsair AX 650 PSU//Dell U2711//Dell U2410// and was most annoyed that I could not use my Khuler 920. Lucky I had the Hyper T3X kicking about. I am looking for a decent low profile cooler as the above is just a little to snug.
