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Chumpesque

Hey /r/buildapc, I need advice on building a PC in the UK

First of all, I have never built a PC before, so I fully expect to have made mistakes through simple misunderstandings, so feel free to berate me for such mistakes =)

Right, on to the matter at hand. I'm looking to build a gaming PC for roughly £550 (so far I'm a bit over and am slightly further flexible here if it is for disproportionate performance increases) to play games like Starcraft II at fairly high graphical settings. The only other intensive use this PC will get will probably be a small amount of video processing, but this is by no means the priority.

My basic build is modelled off the one for a $700 gaming pc here, and so far consists of:

Overall, without the case, this comes to £550.19.

Are there any bottlenecks in this build or unnecessary extravagances? When doing these rough plans, I only used sites which I've used before and trust, so there are probably some good savings available as well for those in the know.

Thanks for any help here!

Posted Jul 28, 2010, 3:08 PM UTC

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chaud•

650TX would be a better PSU choice, will cost a bit more. Buy a lifetime warranty brand on any GPU you buy.

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BraveSirRobin•

dabs.com is a great store, if only because they have really good product filtering capabilities.

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ChumpesqueOP•

OK thanks, I'll take a look.

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matts2•

First off, since you are in the UK everything is flipped over, right to left and left to right.

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bovril•

Your PSU is too small according to this sizer

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[deleted]•

Does the graphics card have to be low profile? What features do you need?

This is a little out of date, but still pretty much on the money:Tom's Hardware Graphics Card Guide

Asus and MSI are good graphics card brands if you go the ATI route. I'd recommend the HD5770.

You might want to spend a little more on ram. G.skillz have some pretty low latency stuff for about £20 more.

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ChumpesqueOP•

No it doesn't have to be low profile, it was just a cheap version of the 460 1GB. I was under the impression that the 460 was slightly better than the 5770 - was I mistaken?

I'll take a look around for some lower latency RAM as well, thanks.

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[deleted]•

Yes, but the 5770s on ebuyer are a lot cheaper than the 460 and the performance is pretty good for the money.

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Sockcooker•

You can get better prices at cclonline.com and ebuyer.com, cclonline is an award winning shop. You could get the RAM for £64, the HD for £33, the DVD/RW for £13 and a 550w Modular 80+ certified PSU for £40 on these sites, have a look.

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