£800-£1000 for gaming rig

postman_pat

New Member
Hi,

Basically my dad wants a new PC and said he wants to spend £800-£1000 on everything, except a monitor and speakers.

He wants to use it for just general office work (not graphics design or anything intensive like that!) but said that I can play my games on it if its good enough for the job. So what can I get within that price range that will play games? Can I play the latest games on this? I will happily build it myself but I am no OC'er.

Thanks for your help,

Mike
 

oscaryu1

VIP Member
$2000USD? You don't need that much. Especially for office work. I'd work out something like this:

Q9450
4GB DDR2-800 (2x 2GB) CL4
HD4870
P43-DS3L
DVD Burner SATA
Antec 900
OCZ GameXStream 700W
 

Gareth

Active Member
It may be equivalent, but with the UK prices, you won't get anywhere as much as you can in the US.

Here is what I found

Q9450 = £217
4GB DDR2 6400 = £59.99
1TB 7200RPM HDD = £86.99
DVD+RW = £14.87
Antec Case + Antec PSU = £75.99
ASUS P5Q-E = £94.99
Radeon HD4850 = £120
Windows Vista Home Premium x64 = £60.54

Total £718.52 Inc Shipping and VAT.
 
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Nigouki

New Member
As usual, my advice for midrange gaming computers is as follows: E8k-series CPU (NOT quad), 2 GB or less of DDR2-1066 or faster, two WD Raptors or Excelstor Jupiters in SATA RAID, and Windows XP Pro (NOT Vista!).

A few months ago, I would have told you that nVidia was raping ATI like a prison bitch, but ATI now seems to be returning the favor with its HD 4k series of GPUs.
 

cohen

New Member
It may be equivalent, but with the UK prices, you won't get anywhere as much as you can in the US.

Here is what I found

Q9450 = £217
4GB DDR2 6400 = £59.99
1TB 7200RPM HDD = £86.99
DVD+RW = £14.87
Antec Case + Antec PSU = £75.99
ASUS P5Q-E = £94.99
Radeon HD4850 = £120
Windows Vista Home Premium x64 = £60.54

Total £718.52 Inc Shipping and VAT.

Totally agree - Great Build, that will be very nice, and will run vista nicely!
 

Nigouki

New Member
i would go with garethman's build, and nigouki, have you even used vista?

Yes. I had to put up with Vista's crap for about 6 months before the laptop on which it was installed suffered an unfortunate "accident". I will never again buy a new laptop unless the manufacturer gives customers the choice between XP and Vista.
 

postman_pat

New Member
Thanks a bunch for all of those replies - especially oscaryu, garethman and Nigouki for your suggestions.

Garethman, your build looks like the one I would plump for (sorry to others!). Would a Radeon 4850 be good enough to run the latest games? I was looking at Nvidia cards at around the £250 mark. How does a 4850 compare?

Thanks again,

Mike
 

cohen

New Member
Thanks a bunch for all of those replies - especially oscaryu, garethman and Nigouki for your suggestions.

Garethman, your build looks like the one I would plump for (sorry to others!). Would a Radeon 4850 be good enough to run the latest games? I was looking at Nvidia cards at around the £250 mark. How does a 4850 compare?

Thanks again,

Mike

Yes the 4850 will be play the latest games nicely.

The HD radeons are very good.
 

postman_pat

New Member
The plot thickens! The case you picked out was luuuuuuush, but my dad is saying that he wants the case to be as small as possible. How small can I go with these components?

Cheers,

Michael
 

Gareth

Active Member
Since the motherboard is ATX, thats about as small as you can get, unless you pick out a Micro-ATX case and motherboard, then you can go a lot smaller.
 
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