The best gaming PC I can get for 1000 Pounds (around $2000 I believe)

Basically, what the topic title sugests, I want the best PC for gaming for £1000.

I've also come across this:

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This a good PC? I want one that can play games such as Crysis at high settings.

Thanks, I really do need help.

The Pc you have chosen is a good one with all the right features - not sure about the 9600 and the 22" though - if you're looking to play Crysis at the highest settings smoothly.

I'd consider this

Or maybe this, if you want the whole lot

For me though, at this time, I'd get a system with a GT or GTS512mb and wait for a year an a bit for a new card to come out and the prices for current 9 series cards to drop a bit.

build it yourself my friend. Trust me it's really easy ( I did it one month ago and I still can't believe how easy it was).

First take out AMD, they are bad. Second, like spacedog said, get a 8800gts 512mb of ram. Third, you don't need 4gb of ram (for now, you can alway upgrade later). Forth, 750 gb is a lot (for nothing?). Stick with a 500gb with 32mb of cache, you can find one of those for less than 100$us (50 pounds)

You don't need 4Gb of RAM right now. You only need 2Gb of 800Mhz RAM and that'll do for games like crysis.

9600GT on a 22" (most likely widescreen 1650x1080) isn't good enough for Crysis on high detail. On vista you'll need atleast an 8800GTS 512Mb to do crysis on high at playable frame rates. The CPU is fine.

If you're buying from a shop pre-built then Mesh are a good way to go. My family's computer is a Mesh and it hasn't been turned off for years :P very reliable

PS. Was the liverpool game on sky or something i didn't see it on ITV?

PS. Was the liverpool game on sky or something i didn't see it on ITV?

hongkingkong

Yeah it was, very good game, bloody tense though. 1-1 if you didn't know.

Anyway, you guys have helped a lot so far, cheers.

Stick with a 500gb with 32mb of cache, you can find one of those for less than 100$us (50 pounds)Franko_3

Costs a little more than £50 in the UK. We always pay more in the UK for stuff. That is why they call it Rip Off Britian.

Basically, what the topic title sugests, I want the best PC for gaming for £1000.

I've also come across this:

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This a good PC? I want one that can play games such as Crysis at high settings.

Thanks, I really do need help.

samcotts

Basically, what the topic title sugests, I want the best PC for gaming for £1000.

I've also come across this:

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This a good PC? I want one that can play games such as Crysis at high settings.samcotts

Do you need a blu-ray drive?

AMD < INTEL

4GB but its 667mhz = slow.

9600GT is good but you could get a 9800GTX instead of all that Harddrive space and blue ray drive.

320GB harddrive should do easy. I have a 250GB harddrive I haven't filled it yet and unless you download lots of films and keep them then you not going to need 750GB

first of all are u starting from scratch TC? or do u already have a monitor, keyboard and mouse? if u have those then theres little point in wasting money on getting new ones (unless theres somethign wrong with them). may as well put that money into the tower.

looking at the site (mesh)....that seems very restrictive TC.

if u have no interest in building ureself then i would recommend cyberpower . i used this crowd myself and was very happy with the service. i regret not building this PC but full credit to them...they know what there doing. it came in a good space of time and everything was as it should have been. there tech support is also very good in my experience. the site is also very flexible so u can really build the PC u want to build with the components u want. might be worth a look.

still i would strongly recommend building it ureself.

hmm komplett might be a good idea then. if u use komplett.ie then the strong sterling should get u more buying power. theres also komplett.co.uk of course.

it looks like they also build PCs which is also nice. i never realised that...i thought they only did bits. i just put together a rig with a q6600, 2GB of ram, vista, 20" screen, 5.1 surround sound and an 8800GTS 512MB card. the other bits and bobs (KB&M) are in there too. all for £1062. u can fo course adjust it (no point in buying a new screen if ure happy with the one u have after all for example).

general advice...well try and go quad core if u have no intention of upgrading for a while. more and more games want that quadcore (though fo course they dont absolutely need it at the mo and in the forseeable future). if u want to overclock then the q6600 is absolutely brilliant for it. its stock speed is 2.4GHz but i havent seen an instance where it hasnt been able to be overclocked to 3GHz, even with just the standard cooler. even at 2.4GHz though, itll still happily much through most things u throw at it.

the sweet spot for graphics cards in terms of price/performance is the geforce 8800GT and 8800GTs 512MB verion (ignore the 320 and 640MB versions of that).

for a motherboard, stick to ones with an nforce 750i (or 780i if u really want the best overclocking features and latest mobo features) chipset or the latest intel chipset (the X38 i think) and make sure it has pci express 2.0. for now though ignore DDR3 ram. its very expensive and at the mo its benefits are very small.

make sure u get a case thats big enough to hold everything and has good cooling in it. i would also recommend a power supply of at least 600W.

theres little point in looking at AMD at the moment. there great for cheap CPUs at the lower end but, for performance, the core 2 is soundly beating them. hopefully we will see a return of form from AMD soon (like back in the AMD 64 days) but at the mo the core 2 duo or quad is really the way to go for a gaming rig.

i think thats it really. just remember to read the manuals if ure building ureself. its fairly straight foreward anyway but if in doubt...consult the manual.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-038-OK&groupid=43&catid=1081&subcat=

That is just the computer and nothing else



This one has everything you need but has a weaker graphics card

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-052-OK&groupid=43&catid=1081&subcat=

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-038-OK&groupid=43&catid=1081&subcat=

That is just the computer and nothing else



This one has everything you need but has a weaker graphics card

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-052-OK&groupid=43&catid=1081&subcat=

jhunte99

They're probably the best value pre-builts you're going to find. But self-build is still the way to go, no doubt...

Right, so these are the specs of my custom pc:

Decent specs? Anything I should change?

Thanks.

if you are after graphics performance do yourself a favor m8 and buy an 8800 GT as its so close behind a 8800 GTX you wouldnt notice the difference. New cards which arent pointless releases like the 9800 series are due out around july which should be miles better than current cards.perfect_chao

Especially as you're only going to be gaming at 1400X900. Also, I think it would be better to have 2X2GB instead of 4X1GB mainly due to the performance gains you'll get from running in dual channel. But other than that it seems a reasonably solid specification.

ENERMAX CS-032BF ECA-3052-BS MIDATX + 25cm monster fan
PSU TAGAN TG700-U25 700W Dual Engine series
MOBO: Asus P5N-D SLi
Procesor Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHZ, fsb 1333 S775
OCZ technology: OCZ DDR2 2x 1GB PC2-8500 1066MHZ,SLI readyXTC
HD: WD 500Gb AAKS, SATA300 , 7200, 16MB cache SATA-II/300
2X Gigabyte GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB DDR3, DUAL DVI
COOLING: Thermaltake BigTyp 120 VX

OR

MOBO ASUS P5N-D
INTEL: Procesor Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHZ, fsb 1333 S775
OCZ technology: OCZ DDR2 2x 1GB PC2-8500 1066MHZ,SLI readyXTC
BFG Geforce 9800GTX
HARDDRIVE: Seagate 500GB SATA2, 32Mb, 7200rpm (ST3500320AS)
PSU Enermax INFINITI 720W
CASE: ENERMAX CS-032BF ECA-3052-BS MIDATX + 25cm monster fan
COOLING: Thermaltake BigTyp 120 VX

Which rig? Both for almost the same price, hower the first one with SLi hasn't got a that good PSU, ram and HDD.

Back to the main topic...

Looks good to me. Except for the power supply.GodLovesDead

What would you recommend?

Which graphics card would be better?

'2 x XFX NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT 512MB DDR3 XXX 2xDVI/HDMI (SLI SETUP)'

or

'ASUS 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX 2xDVI PCI-E SLI'

or

' ASUS 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT PCI-E 2xDVI RET COMPANY OF HEROES'

Bump.

Sorry, I just want to make sure I get the best for my money.

2 9800gx2's, intel q9775x2, intel skulltrail mobo,8gb's of ram, 1200watt silverstone psu,

You might need to catch another elephant for 2000 more pounds.