Best PC specifications via PCSPECIALIST

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  1. DurgeDriven

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    Told you that from start.

    Well I said 3 times faster,

    Now you just seem to be running people in circles.



    Can you answer these questions.

    1.Do you or your Dad have any reservations with building a tower.

    2. What is your current OS.
     
  2. I think your right there man, everyone has offered some sort of build or solution/ compromise.

    I think DrR1pper hit the right note by saying he is best running a playstation.
     
  3. DurgeDriven

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    I agree, in old day get the power switch lead correct you could blow it up.

    Modern gear makes this a thing of the past.


    Done a few myself, putting risers in where there is no holes is another. lol

    But that is all because they did not have good advice when building.

    If he downloaded all manuals ( to have on screen on other PC ) any problems he can ask realtime.

    I will stick with my build for 650 :) dual core at 3.7GHz, stock cooler ( easy to install) and fast GTX760.

    [​IMG]

    BTW: 500w EVGA is 40amp single rail more then enough.


    I always ask how much can you afford for simming.

    Like @ $5 a week you can throw my build in the rubbish bin after 3 years.

    What can you buy for $5 a week ....................a iced donut and small coffee.



    P.S> I like that 4690K build for 750 .....great value........ but you forgot the cooler. ;)
     
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  4. hamiltonfan2205

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  5. DrR1pper

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    You don't need 16gb of ram. 8gb is more than enough. Save £55.
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Corsair-CMZ...=UTF8&qid=1406668733&sr=8-1&keywords=8gb+ddr3

    Get the i5 over the i3, it has 4 physical cores rather than just 2 which will benefit you in games that make use of more than just 2 cores (someone correct me if i'm wrong, i think rf2 benefits from 4 cores). Spend £16 extra.
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-3-10G...1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1406668857&sr=8-2&keywords=i5

    Motherboards ok, but your spending more than you need to. Save £13.
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Mo...ywords=socket+1150+motherboard#productDetails

    If you know that you'll need/use 3TB of hard drive space, then ok, keep it. But know that the green version of the western digital drives are noticeably slower than the black, blue version is the middle. I think 1TB is more than you'll need and the black is plenty fast and spacious. But if you really want 3TB, then it's fine but the drive just takes a little longer to do things (something that was annoyingly apparent when i had 1 green and one black in the same system). Save £10.
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Dig...d=1406670944&sr=8-2&keywords=3tb+caviar+black

    You should get a GTX 770 over the GTX 760. Around 25-30% more performance for the same price/performance ratio. It may not sound like much but you'd notice the difference if you had them side-by-side on max settings. Spend £50 extra
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Palit-GeFor...e=UTF8&qid=1406670452&sr=8-3&keywords=gtx+770 (also comes factory overclocked for an additional 5% performance).

    Power supply is the minimum recommended for the card but is perfectly adequate, can pump out 49A to the card of which it will only need 42A, so it's perfectly adequate.

    The rest is fine and the above changes will this save you £12.

    I must admit that i'm not a fan of the case you've chosen, but so long as you like it that's all that matters. There are alternatives for the same price though….just saying. And don't let the word "Screwless" in the title for the case you chose trick you into believing the entire thing is screwless…..just the hd/dvd drive bays ;)
     
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  6. MJP

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    I'm not a streamer (perhaps someone who knows more about this can chime in) but I have reservations over the choice of a dual core w/HT. As I understand it you should really be looking at an i7 but they're quite a lot more expensive. If you're not bothered about overclocking or onboard GPU then maybe something like a Xeon E3-1230 v3 could be worth considering.

    Alternatively you could consider going down the AMD route, something like a FX-8320/8350 although you'll need to take care on your motherboard choice and possibly have to budget in an aftermarket CPU cooler.
     
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    Good score on the EVGA 600watt for 1 pound more.

    The 4360 will run most games as well as a i5 no problems, don't forget it has 400MHz more clockspeed as well to make up a bit.
    4360 has better single core speed then my 2500K

    I think you can run rfactor2 fine on 2 cores.

    Plus you never picked a cooler which will add a bit more to the price of Quad ( any Quad gaming a few hours you want a cooler )


    Case would be okay with dualcore and windforce GTX760 and a single 120mm no problems at all.
    I don't particularly like the case but it was cheap had a few features and looked the part for a younger builder.


    I would find better avenue then Amazon myself.
     
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  8. hamiltonfan2205

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    I did pick a cooler, second link to the bottom. Here is that link.

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Mast...8&qid=1406665970&sr=8-3&keywords=computer+fan

    Now the good news is my budget is around £788 (not sure about the exact number) but i can spend around an extra £70 more if i wanted. The problem I have though is I don't have any experience with building a pc, so i'll need some tutorials on how to do that.
     
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    i have first class delivery from amazon and surely they'd all be packaged in bubble wrap if i buy them new?
     
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    He meant a 3rd party cpu cooler. In my opinion you don't need one, the stock cooler is more than adequate for your needs.

    You really do not need the 16gb of ram, 8g is more than enough and you won't see any benefit's above this in games. And you can then feed the savings you make there into the gtx 770 which will deliver you more performance. And should for whatever reason you find that you need more than 8gb of ram in the future (yet extremely unlikely), you can always just buy another 2 sticks of 8gb.
     
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    Also we have ordered much more delicate things from amazon in the past than computer hardware and they have made it here without any damage. and I have included the gtx770 in the last post and I still have around £30 to spare.
     
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    You could upgrade your cpu to the i5 4690k but you won't see any performance benefits. In fact, as your component selection exists now, nothing you add is going to improve gaming performance beside upgrading the grahpics card to a gtx 780 which would cost you £140 more. Achievable if you reduce ram from 16gb to 8gb and add an extra £15 onto your budget. But i wouldn't do it, the price percetange increase (63%) is heavily outweighed by the performance increase (only 10-20%).

    Either get yourself another 1TB hard drive, upgrade the cpu to the 4690k or pocket the change. Or perhaps a "better" (read: more aesthetically pleasing) case? :p
     
  14. having first class delivery through amazon, just means it gets sent our quicker, plus amazon is slowly turning into market full of bedroom sellers who will cut corners in any way they can.

    Plus the slightest of knocks or dropped parcels can damage a GPU card or hard drive, its nice to see you have such faith though in the royal mail.

    If you can...

    Don't buy anything, wait and save up as much as you can.

    The more money you have, the better pc you will get.
    The better branded hardware you buy, the longer it will last, plus the better online support you will get.

    With computers, its all down to....

    "Where do you want to be, the year after the next?"
    ;)
     
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    Holy expensive ram Batman. I'm not sure if you need a CPU cooler or not. Depends on the weather for me. :p

    Starting to look like a nice package.
     
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    You can always buy an aftermarket cooler later if you want to OC the CPU. I would say that liquid cooling the CPU has gotten quite cheap the last two or four years but the price you guys pay for hardware is insane. Informative thread for me. :)
     
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    Everyone else who i've asked about this says the components shouldn't be damaged cos then why would they sell them? And surely amazon would make sure of it by wrapping it in bubble wrap. And we kind of want to get this new pc soon as im starting college in september and i'd like to make a start on programming practice as well as run rf2 the way id like to and my current pc isnt good enough
     
  19. DrR1pper

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    It's very unlikely to get damaged and even if it were damaged in transit, you just call amazon and they'll collect it and give you another one or your money back. It will be well packaged or else they'd be hemorrhaging money.

    Amazon in this regard are one of if not the best in terms of customer service.
     

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