New Pc

Hey there

Yeah its my birthday on saturday and im gona get a new pc, id say roughly my budget is around £1000 give or take but the problem is im clueless about whats the best out there for that price, the idea of the pc being to play games generally so i know i need a fairly funky graphics card and ram etc, if anyone has a spare 5mins could they right a kind of spec list of what they would recommend and why so ican get your views, this is going from scrath so would need a OS ( Vista?) and keyboard etc, (heard g15/g11 are fairly sexy)

Thanks

Linky

[RandomTask]

need literally everything new? monitor, speakers, case, hard disks etc?

yep the whole shabang, ill use headphones rather then speakers mind, and im not overly fussed on a wonderful monitor aslong as it works

[KoLdDoOm]

(I made this list before Random asked about monitor etc)

If you don't need a monitor and are building it I'd suggest something like:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX
RAM: 4GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red PC6400 DDR2
HDD: 1TB Samsung Spinpoint SATA
Motherboard: Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780i
DVD-RW: (Any, they are like £20)
Mouse: Logitech G5
Keyboard: Logitech G15
PSU: OCZ GameXStream 600w
Case: (Obviously up to you, but I like the NZXT Hush)

All comes, with VAT, to about £940, then download a dodgy copy of Vista Ultimate 64 Bit.

If you want it pre built you'd be looking at a lower spec as obviously they charge you extra to build it, the site B00rz got his from seemed good value, he'll chime in and post it probably, otherwise there's pcspecialist.co.uk, you can tell them an exact spec and they'll build it, or theres some good pre-built ones on overclockers.co.uk

If you need a monitor as well this looks like a good choice:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 81&subcat=

I'd never buy from like Dell or other names like that because they are usually ridiculously overpriced.

[KoLdDoOm]

Since you said you need a monitor I'd substitute graphics card for 8800GT OC 512MB as the performance difference isn't that much, and then monitor wise:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... 17&subcat=

[RandomTask]

kolds sounds pretty much identical to what i would have said

you might want to stick with xp, ive hurd vista doesn't like games. so all you need is a downloaded copy of that and your current windows xp product key.

Nvidia sli so make sure you buy two sli ready graphics cards that are HD compatible
A fecking powerful AMD quad core processor some compatible motherboard.
Lots of ram (ram is cheapish now)
buy a 200gb hd and use your current one along with it. (saves having to back up all your stuff)
youll need about a 600watt psu

then pick a case and wham it together.. if you already have a mouse, keyboard and monitor, reuse them and just make sure you have a decent system and upgrade them later.

[B00rz]

im using vista, never had a problem at all with any games. (well cept trackmania which likes to blue screen me but it think thats something to do with my raid setup)

My mate tryed playing Gmod in vista, killed him. He ended up using a duel OS style bootup, after that it worked all right for him. Hmm

[Razerslash]

Everyone knows vista sucks big time...its all over the internet