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I am going to be building a new gaming PC so that I can play the latest games out there.

QUAD CORE Phenom X4 Nvidia Board Bundle 2GB DDR2 Memory
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=383843

700W X-Power ATX SLI PSU
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=97107

NVIDIA GeForce GT220 1GB PCI-E Graphics Card
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=352096

It will take me a couple of months to complete the system but it will be a good investment for my gaming needs.

Would you recomend any of those? or better? I'm stuck with only £130 every two weeks at the moement.

ddr 2 memory?

dx10 card?

ohhh

you might want to reconsider.

a couple of weeks extra cash will being you a huge boost in performance.

I can put PC's together but picking the right parts I fail lol

What would you recomend? I will save up for a decent gaming machine as I really need one.

Yea, I think you need to take a bit of time to come up with a PLAN of action. I avoid bundles, as these tend to be end of line products. Plus as Schlack has pointed out, you need DDR3 really.

Have a good hunt on the net and check out the posts on this forum. Bambam has recently upgraded, so check out his specs and a few others here. Im sure you will find something that will be affordable to you and also improve your rig.

There are also some sites that you can build and cost your pc on, these are useful to check compatability with, and then maybe order from various places the same item to save costs...

IXL

Thanks IXI, I will search his posts now

edit: I found this, is it the right post?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5
*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 4.00GHz
Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard
Corsair 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz DDR3

yes it is.

UltimateSlinky wrote:Thanks IXI, I will search his posts now

edit: I found this, is it the right post?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5
*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 4.00GHz
Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard
Corsair 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz DDR3

erm i think thats mine!


lol well close enough

I got a similar processor, the same ram and mobo bundled from overclockers
+ the sapphire 5850

Already had antec case.

lots of oomph, very happy with the setup.

Schlack wrote:

UltimateSlinky wrote:Thanks IXI, I will search his posts now

edit: I found this, is it the right post?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5
*OVERCLOCKED* Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 4.00GHz
Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58 Motherboard
Corsair 6GB DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz DDR3

erm i think thats mine!


lol well close enough

I got a similar processor, the same ram and mobo bundled from overclockers
+ the sapphire 5850

Already had antec case.

lots of oomph, very happy with the setup.

LOL, it was posted by you in the first place Schlack, I searched the forums for your posts.

ahh, so thats why it was so familiar!

you might search for bam bams new rig too, its something similar.

I'll do that. I'm just about to check if anyone is playing on S1 or S2 cuz I am so board right now.

You also might want to think about upgrading your operating system, if you havent already considered it for yoru new build to Windows 7, 64 Bit. This will help unleash some of the power of your hardware better.

if you want to make things easy mate just say how much you are willing to spend on a pc and i can spec you the best machine possible for that kind of money if that helps any ?

IXL wrote:You also might want to think about upgrading your operating system, if you havent already considered it for yoru new build to Windows 7, 64 Bit. This will help unleash some of the power of your hardware better.

I have Windows 7 on my laptop and it plays CSS with all settings on High =] I love it. I will be going onto Windows 7 on PC too but this machine is too bad for that so it's running Windows XP

Para wrote:if you want to make things easy mate just say how much you are willing to spend on a pc and i can spec you the best machine possible for that kind of money if that helps any ?

I was thinking about £500 thats putting £100 in my savings account every two weeks. Leaving me a little cash for other stuff too.

£500 ok leave it with me and i see what i can come up with for ya !

Para wrote:£500 ok leave it with me and i see what i can come up with for ya !

Ok, I will be saving up