making the switch to pc gaming.

[adam bussey]

list of parts

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/wildfire-intel-i5-3470-36ghz-asus-p8h61-mx-r20-4gb-memory-kit-used-b64nw or http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMD-A10-6800K-4-4Ghz-Quad-Core-Giga-F2A55M-HD2-Board-8670D-Motherboard-Bundle-/370931234131?_trksid=p2054897.l4275 (with some ram)

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/toshiba-2tb-35-inch-internal-desktop-hard-drive-a52lu

 

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/palit-geforce-gtx-650-1gb-2500mhz-gddr5-1gb-5000mhz-graphics-card-n85nn

[Mack]

power supply unit. If your trying to build a gaming PC in an office desktop case, I hope you live in the north pole otherwise you could be cooking breakfast on it.

[Tariq]

Why you using maplins? They cost far more than they need to be.

And the 650 is a very basic graphics card btw

[Moose87]

lol whats a PSU

[Mike1971]

A DB set up i7 intel processor on a mis motherboard, Nvidia 720 graphics card, 16Gb ram, 2x 1Tb sata hard drives, the price was slightly cheaper than the divorce it nearly caused.

it will play anything and I have it hooked up to twin 20" samsung lcd monitors but made the mistake of putting windows 8 on it.

most of the bits came from www.novatech.co.uk

[adam bussey]

power supply unit. If your trying to build a gaming PC in an office desktop case, I hope you live in the north pole otherwise you could be cooking breakfast on it.

It's not a office desktop case, it was a custom build for a workstation.

[adam bussey]

and where would be a good place to get the parts I want (or better) in my budget?

[jcheeseright]

Ok, you don't want to hear this, but if you don't know what a PSU is, don't build your own computer. Seriously, just don't.

 

Go to novatech.co.uk and buy a pre built one, for best price--performance I recommend an intel i5 processor and an AMD Radeon HD7970 or better. The GeForce card you linked earlier would struggle with last years games, let alone modern ones.

[Mike1971]

Ok, you don't want to hear this, but if you don't know what a PSU is, don't build your own computer. Seriously, just don't.

 

Go to novatech.co.uk and buy a pre built one, for best price--performance I recommend an intel i5 processor and an AMD Radeon HD7970 or better. The GeForce card you linked earlier would struggle with last years games, let alone modern ones.

I agree with this so very much,

[adam bussey]

psu (power supply unit) you could have just said power supply

[adam bussey]

what would the minimum for playing games like battlefield be in the Geforce range?

and i have decided on the AMD A10 processor.

[Mike1971]

Adam, If you are looking at building a gaming pc www.aria.co.uk the forum on this computer component site is very good for advice on building your own system.

power and cooling are upmost, followed by a quality mother board,processor, graphic's,memory, storage(ata is old hat, SATA or solid state is the way to go)no less than a terabite.

You will also need a gaming case not an old office one or as it was said before"you had better live in the noth pole" it won't keep cool and cause many problems.

[Mike1971]

what would the minimum for playing games like battlefield be in the Geforce range?

and i have decided on the AMD A10 processor.

look on the Nvidia site it is very helpful.

[adam bussey]

look on the Nvidia site it is very helpful.

 

I've got one guy saying that a GTX 660 Ti will work

 

and i am going to have a 500W PSU

AMD A10 processor (cost effective)

500GB ATA hard drive

1TB SATA hard drive

It's already got a custom case with plenty of vents and mounting points for fans

multi card reader (already fitted)

DVD/CD rewriter (already fitted)

[Mike1971]

Adam what games are you looking at playing?

[adam bussey]

Adam what games are you looking at playing?

most of my current games, such as dawn of war, BF2, BF3, lord of the rings battle for middle earth, starwars empire at war, and hopefully BF4

[jcheeseright]

Don't bother with ATA, it's an extinct interface, just get a bigger SATA disk or even better a SSD.

 

The AMD a10 as a multi-core processor with very poor single core performance is (comparatively) dog turd for gaming since very very few games are optimised for multi core processors. Get an i5, and don't get a GTX 660 Ti, it's an 18 month old budget card which kinda struggled with BF3 let alone BF4;

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-660-ti-benchmark-review,3279-4.html

[adam bussey]

Don't bother with ATA, it's an extinct interface, just get a bigger SATA disk or even better a SSD.

 

The AMD a10 as a multi-core processor with very poor single core performance is (comparatively) dog turd for gaming since very very few games are optimised for multi core processors. Get an i5, and don't get a GTX 660 Ti, it's an 18 month old budget card which kinda struggled with BF3 let alone BF4;

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-660-ti-benchmark-review,3279-4.html

The ATA has the OS on it and thats all It's going to have

 

http://www.dabs.com/products/evga-geforce-gtx-660-1046mhz-2gb-pci-express-3-0-hdmi-superclocked-89QY.html?refs=13-57220000&src=3

[adam bussey]

also I'm on a £400 Budget

[jcheeseright]

Lolz, good luck getting something that'll halfway play BF4 for £400.

 

Seriously, save longer and get something you'll be happy with.

[adam bussey]

Time to ring my PC expert (the guy how has built all my dads business computers)

[Moose87]

to be fair. being able to build a computer doesnt make you an expert. its realativly simple to find all the correct parts. i built one at 15 with no training. but they are right. at 400 your not gonna get alot. a good graphics card is 150+ easily so half your budget. so either save for longer or see if theres any good deals in january sales

[adam bussey]

to be fair. being able to build a computer doesnt make you an expert. its realativly simple to find all the correct parts. i built one at 15 with no training. but they are right. at 400 your not gonna get alot. a good graphics card is 150+ easily so half your budget. so either save for longer or see if theres any good deals in january sales

I'm not saying that you have to be an expert to build computers, it's just that this guy has been making gaming and powerful workstation PC for about 10-12 years now.

 

also found a GTX 680 on ebay that sounds tempting

[Mack]

psu (power supply unit) you could have just said power supply

I could, I could also say central processing unit, giga byte, tera byte and serial advanced technology attachement but Its much easier to use shorthand, I kinda figured someone planning on building a pc would know what PSU stands for

[adam bussey]

I could, I could also say central processing unit, giga byte, tera byte and serial advanced technology attachement but Its much easier to use shorthand, I kinda figured someone planning on building a pc would know what PSU stands for

I use long hand when talking about components