Need a bit of build advice! Here goes...
Approximate Purchase Date: 2-3 weeks (don't need exact pricing). Could be more if I can't get the money together.
Budget Range: £350/$660 (think that's an approx conversion)
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Word Processing
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts/items that I already have:
Screen: Sony Bravia KDL-20S4020 (720p, 1366x768)
Peripherals: Wireless mouse & keyboard; Netgear wireless adapter
HDD: Western Digital WD10 EARS-00Y5B1 1TB (5400rpm)
OS: Windows 8
LG DVD drive
Do you need to buy OS: No (will trial Windows 8 and buy the £30 upgrade)
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any respectable sites with low shipping costs to the UK
Location: Leeds, UK
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1366x768
Additional Comments: Need the PC to run quietly. Also, need the motherboard to be a bit futureproofed as thinking I will probably upgrade the GPU and CPU in a year or so for gaming at 1920x1080.
Why Are You Upgrading: For gaming (want to run Borderlands 2, Battlefield 3, Dishonored , Guild Wars 2 smoothly at 1366x768 720p on as High settings as possible for my budget). Also the PSU on my old desktop has died.
Parts I am currently looking at:
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7770 Sapphire (£95.39)
CPU: Intel BX80637G2120 Pentium G2120/ 3.10GHz (£71.99)
PSU: Corsair 430W V2 CX Series PSU (£36.18)
Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 - ATX - LGA1155 Socket - Z68 - LGA1155 Socket (£71.90)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance - Memory - 4 GB - DIMM 240-pin - DDR3 - 1600 MHz / PC3-12800 - CL9 - 1.5 V - unbuffered - non-ECC (£15)
SSD: ADATA 500 Series 60 GB Internal SSD Serial ATA-600 2.5" S511 (£47.48)
Case: BitFenix Merc Alpha (£32)
Again, I don't need totally up to date prices and deals - I am just looking for some sound build advice and compatibility checks. Also, any advice about upcoming budget friendly tech I should wait for is appreciated!
Any help is hugely appreciated
Lookinglass.
Approximate Purchase Date: 2-3 weeks (don't need exact pricing). Could be more if I can't get the money together.
Budget Range: £350/$660 (think that's an approx conversion)
System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Word Processing
Are you buying a monitor: No
Parts/items that I already have:
Screen: Sony Bravia KDL-20S4020 (720p, 1366x768)
Peripherals: Wireless mouse & keyboard; Netgear wireless adapter
HDD: Western Digital WD10 EARS-00Y5B1 1TB (5400rpm)
OS: Windows 8
LG DVD drive
Do you need to buy OS: No (will trial Windows 8 and buy the £30 upgrade)
Preferred Website(s) for Parts: Any respectable sites with low shipping costs to the UK
Location: Leeds, UK
Parts Preferences: Intel CPU
Overclocking: Maybe
SLI or Crossfire: No
Your Monitor Resolution: 1366x768
Additional Comments: Need the PC to run quietly. Also, need the motherboard to be a bit futureproofed as thinking I will probably upgrade the GPU and CPU in a year or so for gaming at 1920x1080.
Why Are You Upgrading: For gaming (want to run Borderlands 2, Battlefield 3, Dishonored , Guild Wars 2 smoothly at 1366x768 720p on as High settings as possible for my budget). Also the PSU on my old desktop has died.
Parts I am currently looking at:
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7770 Sapphire (£95.39)
CPU: Intel BX80637G2120 Pentium G2120/ 3.10GHz (£71.99)
PSU: Corsair 430W V2 CX Series PSU (£36.18)
Motherboard: ASRock Z68 Pro3 Gen3 - ATX - LGA1155 Socket - Z68 - LGA1155 Socket (£71.90)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance - Memory - 4 GB - DIMM 240-pin - DDR3 - 1600 MHz / PC3-12800 - CL9 - 1.5 V - unbuffered - non-ECC (£15)
SSD: ADATA 500 Series 60 GB Internal SSD Serial ATA-600 2.5" S511 (£47.48)
Case: BitFenix Merc Alpha (£32)
Again, I don't need totally up to date prices and deals - I am just looking for some sound build advice and compatibility checks. Also, any advice about upcoming budget friendly tech I should wait for is appreciated!
Any help is hugely appreciated
Lookinglass.