Hello, im new here and im currently struggling on making a new pc because my old one can barely play any game. Well anyways there is a few things to keep in mind: Energy (cant waste alot) Noise (neighboors complain at night when i play on my old rig) Budget (only have like 550€ to build i can push a bit more if necessary but my wallet will end up in the emergency room) And most of all it has to be able to play BF3 (and not on medium if thats possible). So if you forumers could help me make a list of what parts i should buy that would be really awesome. Thanks
about 600quid or 1000$usd Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 90$ EVGA 01G-P3-1561-AR GeForce GTX 560 Ti FPB 240$ CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W 100$ G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1333 32$ ASUS P8P67 PRO (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 170$ Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz 220$ Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade 120$ COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus 28$ You can save a bit money if you keep your harddrives and windows disk(not if you have XP) but this is about as good as it gets.
wow thanks Agent-A01 im really greatful for the help and yes i was planning on saving the hardrive and using my windows copy, but just a question sorry i was looking and i saw the GTX480 and the price isnt very far away would u recommend over the GTX 560, because i saw the FPS tests on this site for Bad Company 2 and the GTX480 wasnt bad.
No not really, if its not stock cooler than sure, but 480 is too hot and noisy compared to the 560ti, which you could OC to get close to 480 performance.
The GTX 560 is going for under $200 now so I would start there. Go AMD and save a ton if you are on a budget. The AMD's will still run anything out there and with respectable framerates. I have an ASUS Radeon HD6850 and that card is super quiet if you were considering something like that.
Here's my quotation, since I don't know where you are in the Eurozone, I can quote you in UK Pounds which is rather similar in price with Eurozone regions than components in US Dollars: Intel Core i5 2500K (£161.13) http://www.ebuyer.com/251596-intel-...b-cache-retail-boxed-processor-bx80623i52500k GIGABYTE GA-P67A-D3-B3 (£89.99) http://www.ebuyer.com/264878-gigaby...hannel-hd-audio-atx-motherboard-ga-p67a-d3-b3 Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz HyperX Blu Memory Kit CL9 (£25.01) http://www.ebuyer.com/234975-kingst...ory-kit-cl9-1-65v-non-ecc-khx1600c9d3b1k2-4gx Asus GTX 560 DCII OC 1GB GDDR5 (£154.65) http://www.ebuyer.com/267731-asus-g...dvi-mini-hdmi-pci-e-engtx560-dcii-oc-2di-1gd5 Cooler Master 370 Mid-Tower Case (£29.99) http://www.ebuyer.com/245413-coolermaster-elite-370-mid-tower-case-rc-370-kkn1 Coolermaster GX 550W PSU (£48.71) http://www.ebuyer.com/200489-coolermaster-gx-550w-psu-rs-550-acaae3-uk Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm (£42.99) http://www.ebuyer.com/173804-samsun...-hard-drive-sataii-7200rpm-32mb-cache-hd103sj LG GH22NS70 22x DVD±RW (£16.14) http://www.ebuyer.com/263923-lg-gh22ns70-22x-dvd-rw-with-dl-ram-sata-optical-drive-gh22ns70-auaa Total: £538.62 All prices in British Pounds from Ebuyer.com. All applicable shipping extra, VAT is included. Prices subject to change without prior notice and is current as of August 19, 2011. deltatux
thanks everyone for the help, just one last thing which GTX 560 is better? because theres a few from different makers so which one should i choose?
just heads up. Looks like allot 560TI have some kind of issue, i would rethink about getting this gpu atm.. check here http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=246 and here http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=193106&st=0 and you will see what i mean, also looks like the driver might have played and important part as well (especially newer ones 275.xx and 280.xx)..
imo the best perf./$$$/quality ratio atm is nv 570gtx and AMD6950. Although 570gtx looks better, something like Gainward Phantom, Msi TFIII is very nice too(great OC'er) but it can get a bit "noisy" when fan hits around 65%, but i never saw it except if i Oc'ed to the max and ran 3dmark2011, otherwise its at around 55% max..its down to personal taste. Well i dont mind it much, i had 250gts before and that was really noisy with default fan compared to TFIII.. http://geizhals.at/eu/?cat=gra16_512&xf=1439_GTX+570&sort=p Phantom http://geizhals.at/eu/604954 TwinFrozrIII http://geizhals.at/eu/630557
You could also get a P8P67-M PRO. It isnt OC friendly (instead of setting actual vcore, you set an offset based on default vcore) but its fully featured (SLi, CFX, etc) and is small. That is if you prefer something small and cheaper. The P8P67 PRO is a fine board and i'd get it if i had the money. I dun have any issue :3eyes: And i use it on a way old motherboard for today standards.
No problems with the GTX 560, I still back my own build there. However, if you still feel uneasy, you can easily shave a couple dollars and get the same performance as the GTX 560 with the Radeon HD 6870 which is what I personally have. deltatux
well i picked these what do you guys think :S? ASUS P8Z68-V Pro - Socket 1155 - Chipset Z68 - ATX (157€) Corsair PC Vengeance Performance 2x4 GB DDR3-1600 - PC3-12800 - CL9 (CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9) (67€) Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache (45€) CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W (77€) Intel Core i5 2500K - 3,3 GHz - Cache L3 6 MB - Socket LGA 1155 ( 188€) ASUS GTX560 DIRECTCU II OC 1GB DDR5 PCI-E (186€) It went a bit over the budget i expect but if you guys think this is a good choice then ill start here and ill upgrade some stuff on the next paycheck i get
GSKILL KIT 8GB DDR3 1333MHZ RIPJAW X (CL9) is this any good cuz they are on sale and its just 45€ :S?
And grab some aftermarket CPU cooler. Just be sure it won't interfere with those tall G.Skill heatsinks. It would be a waste not to OC that 2500K.
