Need help building a PC

[Charleyzard]

£239.25 Processer

£136.76 Motherboard

£142.96 Graphics Card

£51.38 RAM

£59.99 (x2 maybe) HDD

£1.93 (x2 maybe) Cables

£39.76 Case

£50.50 PSU

£39.22 Fan

£69.99 Blu Ray

£32.87 Mouse

£13.25 Mouse Pad

£118.91 Keyboard

£162.36 Monitor

£17.69 Speakers

I've never built a PC before, is this build any good or god-awful? Any improvements you can give me? I'm wondering about the graphics card, is it any good and will it last?

[UnoDeluxe]

£239.25 Processer

£136.76 Motherboard

£142.96 Graphics Card

£51.38 RAM

£59.99 (x2 maybe) HDD

£1.93 (x2 maybe) Cables

£39.76 Case

£50.50 PSU

£39.22 Fan

£69.99 Blu Ray

£32.87 Mouse

£13.25 Mouse Pad

£118.91 Keyboard

£162.36 Monitor

£17.69 Speakers

I've never built a PC before, is this build any good or god-awful? Any improvements you can give me? I'm wondering about the graphics card, is it any good and will it last?

I just recently started building pcs and i researched every last thing i could possibly know so i hope i am able to help . Anyways, I don't see any problems except you might want to get a 7200 rpm hard drive instead of 5400 rpm for speed but it is slightly more expensive. The video card is fine but i am not too familiar with the quality of gigabyte but i heard it's pretty good and cheap. Overall, i think it's pretty good but i guess you can consider me a newbie so i would wait for another opinion but i don't see anything wrong.

[gola]

I'll tell you what I tell everyone else, the i7 2600k is overkill unless you do something like encoding video, what you'll want is the i5 2500(k) if you're doing stuff like gaming/normal computing (which I assume you are). The i7 sometimes even gets less FPS in games compared to the i5 2500k, even though the i7 is $100 or so more.

And as the guy above said, definitely get a 7200 RPM hard drive over that one.

Just to save you some time I got the links for the processors for you.





Unless you plan on overclocking you'll want to get the i5 2500, the i5 2500k has no limit on multiplier and stuff, which is the only difference on that site (On some sites the default clock speed between them is different)

[Team Six]

Wait till the AMD Bulldozer comes out.

[Charleyzard]

I just recently started building pcs and i researched every last thing i could possibly know so i hope i am able to help . Anyways, I don't see any problems except you might want to get a 7200 rpm hard drive instead of 5400 rpm for speed but it is slightly more expensive. The video card is fine but i am not too familiar with the quality of gigabyte but i heard it's pretty good and cheap. Overall, i think it's pretty good but i guess you can consider me a newbie so i would wait for another opinion but i don't see anything wrong.

Would you say this is fine? I usually hear bad things about Seagate. I've also changed the video card to the 570 () on the suggestion of someone else.

I'll tell you what I tell everyone else, the i7 2600k is overkill unless you do something like encoding video, what you'll want is the i5 2500(k) if you're doing stuff like gaming/normal computing (which I assume you are). The i7 sometimes even gets less FPS in games compared to the i5 2500k, even though the i7 is $100 or so more.

And as the guy above said, definitely get a 7200 RPM hard drive over that one.

Just to save you some time I got the links for the processors for you.





Unless you plan on overclocking you'll want to get the i5 2500, the i5 2500k has no limit on multiplier and stuff, which is the only difference on that site (On some sites the default clock speed between them is different)

I'm just thinking the i7 will be future proofed. Would this not be the case? Thanks for the advice though.

Is everything else fine then?

[UnoDeluxe]

Would you say this is fine? I usually hear bad things about Seagate. I've also changed the video card to the 570 () on the suggestion of someone else.


I'm just thinking the i7 will be future proofed. Would this not be the case? Thanks for the advice though.

Is everything else fine then?

I never used seagate before so i wouldn't know :/. I prefer Western Digital but both get equally good reviews so if you want to check out WD here's a link:

Caviar black is designed for high performance so it could be for you if you are gaming.

[Charleyzard]

I never used seagate before so i wouldn't know :/. I prefer Western Digital but both get equally good reviews so if you want to check out WD here's a link:

Caviar black is designed for high performance so it could be for you if you are gaming.

I'll settle with a 1TB then. I can always get more space when I need it. Thanks.

[gola]

Would you say this is fine? I usually hear bad things about Seagate. I've also changed the video card to the 570 () on the suggestion of someone else.


I'm just thinking the i7 will be future proofed. Would this not be the case? Thanks for the advice though.

Is everything else fine then?

It isn't future proofed because the i7 2600k simply isn't faster, as I said it even gets lower FPS on some games.

[Charleyzard]

Thanks for all the help so far, everyone.

What I have now:















Does this look good? Is the PSU good enough?

For the case I am thinking of this:



Or this:



They've both received great reviews and I'm wondering will either of them be fine for the parts I'm getting? I'd rather get the second one, if only for the looks if they both do the same job. If I get the second one will I need to buy more fans than what is included with it and what ones should I choose?

Will come to £1211.34 or £1231.34.

I'm not going to pay for Windows 7 now and I might get a cheaper keyboard and mouse.

[gola]

I don't mean to be stubborn here but you're literally paying 50 pounds extra for 100MHz of processing power and some better threading capabilities by getting that CPU, as I said that CPU is useless overkill for anything except programs that can use the threading and cores properly, which isn't many, and basically the only things that do are video encoding programs. Just trying to help you not waste money here. Most games use 2, just putting it into perspective.

Considering you're buying a cooler like that your best bet is to get the i5 2500k and overclock it, and if you don't plan on overclocking you wouldn't really need the i5 2500k let alone the i7 2600k anyway.g 50 pounds extra for 100MHz of processing power and some better threading capabilities by getting that CPU, as I said that CPU is useless overkill for anything except programs that can use the threading and cores properly, which isn't many, and basically the only things that do are video encoding programs. Just trying to help you not waste money here. Most games use 2, just putting it into perspective.

Other than that your choices are good, spinpoint F3 HDD's are awesome and corsair RAM works well too.bye