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August 28, 2012 5:07:21 PM

My friend wants to buy a gaming PC.

Looking at the following website, who I heard good reviews from : http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk
I made the following configuration (pasted from the checkout screen):



> CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-3570K Quad Core 3.40 GHz 6MB Cache LGA1155 + HD Graphics

> HDD: 1TB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM Hard Drive (Single Hard Drive) (Single Hard Drive)

> MEMORY: 4GB (2x2GB) PC10666 DDR3/1333mhz Dual Channel Memory (Kingston Value Select)

> MOTHERBOARD: Asus P8H61-MX Intel H61 chipset Micro ATX Mainboard w/ 2 RAM slots, 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, SATA-II,1xGen2 PCIe, 1xPCIe , 1 x PCI (B3 Stepping)

> SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

> VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 1GB 16X PCIe Video Card [+64] (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)


The subtotal was £612, £734.40 including VAT.


The custom link to that configuration is here: http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/saving/show.aspx?id=4...


I would just like to gather some thoughts from people in the know, as I myself am out of sync with gaming related things these days.

Further questions:
Will it run games like Arma 2, Minecraft, CoD fairly well?

Any feedback will be appreciated,

Thanks!

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August 30, 2012 8:19:03 AM

yes it would. but your best bet is to make one, once you look into it you find it easy to do, and much cheaper. that seem £100 more that what it would cost to make :S
August 30, 2012 1:32:17 PM

Just built a similar system, sorry if it looks a bit screwed up.

Intel Core i5 3570K 3.4GHz Socket 1155 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor £148.13
Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H Socket 1155 VGA DVI HDMI 8 Channel Audio ATX £65.89
Gigabyte GTX 560Ti OC 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI Mini HDMI Out PCI-E Graphics Card £154.70
2 x Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz Low Profile Vengeance Memory Kit CL9 1.5V £65.20
Corsair 120GB Force 3 SSD - SATA-III 2.5" - Read 550MB/s Write 510MB/s 85K IOPS Fast Performance 3YR Warranty £66.66
Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM £54.16
LG GH24NS90 24x DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA Optical Drive - OEM Black £11.22
1 x Fractal Design Define R3 Black Pearl Case - USB3.0 £67.42
3 x Fractal Design 120mm Silent Series R2 Case Fan £26.94
Arctic Cooling Freezer i30 Socket 1155, 1156, 2011 Processor Cooler £28.51

2 x (free accessory) Acronis True Image Personal - OEM £0.00

£826.64 inc vat - 5 days free delivery from ebuyer.com

Only mistake I made, was I should have only bought 1x120mm fan and 2x140mm fans.

I also swapped the rear fan to the front as they are more powerful, and fitted the slower fan to the rear, the other 2 went on top and the system is basically dead silent, cool and screaming fast even without o/c.
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