adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tariq Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Why you using maplins? They cost far more than they need to be. And the 650 is a very basic graphics card btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose87 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 lol whats a PSU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike1971 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 and where would be a good place to get the parts I want (or better) in my budget? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 22, 2013 Supporters Share Posted December 22, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike1971 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 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, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 psu (power supply unit) you could have just said power supply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 what would the minimum for playing games like battlefield be in the Geforce range? and i have decided on the AMD A10 processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike1971 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike1971 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike1971 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Adam what games are you looking at playing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 22, 2013 Supporters Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 also I'm on a £400 Budget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supporters jcheeseright Posted December 22, 2013 Supporters Share Posted December 22, 2013 Lolz, good luck getting something that'll halfway play BF4 for £400. Seriously, save longer and get something you'll be happy with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 Time to ring my PC expert (the guy how has built all my dads business computers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose87 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam bussey Posted December 22, 2013 Author Share Posted December 22, 2013 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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