A Gaming PC - What parts do I need? :)

[Rosza]

Hey



Approximate Purchase Date: Anytime

Budget Range: £250 - £600

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming (Games such as Star Wars: the Old Republic + Skyrim)

Parts Not Required: Keyboard , Mouse

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: None

Country: England

Parts Preferences:Any

Overclocking: Maybe

SLI or Crossfire: Maybe

Monitor Resolution: Any
Additional Comments: N / A

 

[jmsellars1]

Hi!

First thing you should know about building a PC right now is that hard drive prices have gone through the roof so you have 3 options with them:

1: Use an old drive
2: Use a SSD if you can cope with the low capacity, then buy a HDD in future.
3: Bend over and pay the price :/

Option 1 would be best, if you can't do that I'd go for option 2. If you don't have an old drive and you need more than 60-80GB then you will just have to spend ~£80-100 on a drive.

Here's a good build which should run Skyrim nicely at 1920x1080.

Prices from www.ebuyer.com

Intel Core i3-2100 - £89.37
8GB Corsair XMS3 1333Mhz - £29.99
Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3 - £48.99
Powercolor HD 6870 1GB - £126.99
Crucial M4 64GB - £87.30
Corsair CX-500 - £49.84
Coolermaster Elite 430 - £40.11
Philips E-Line 21.5'' Monitor - £93.99

Total - £581.44

That should play those games great, I also happen to know that monitor looks awesome. A friend of mine has it and the colours look stunning.

 

[Rosza]

What would using an old drive mean, is there any great advantages of using a new one? Does it make it a lot faster or something? Thanks for the build by the way

 

[jmsellars1]

I'm saying use an old hard drive if you have one because hard drive prices have gone up by like 3 times and aren't going to come down for at least a few months.

At least if you buy an SSD you can have super fast load times and worry about mass storage another time.

 

[Rosza]

Thanks for all your help The next stage is ordering the parts...and then building it

 

[jmsellars1]

If you are going to go with that build I should let you know, you are going to need to buy a SATA 3 cable and some kind of bracket of that SSD.

 

[jmsellars1]

Apologies but I just realised that board doesn't have SATA 3. To get the full speed of the drive you would need a motherboard such as this:

http://www.ebuyer.com/261404-asus-p8h61-m-pro-intel-h61-socket-1155-8-channel-hd-audio-matx-p8h61-m-pro-r3-0