Thinking of getting.

[Trix_steR]

Will need to sell my current comp which will hopefully go for £200-300 and maybe save up/wait for Christmas,
(Buying monitor from Amazon btw, all softwares like OS, antivirus etc already owned)
But I'm liking this build-

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2400 Quad Core (3.10GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8P67 DELUXE (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™ / SLI
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD5570 - DVI,HDMI,VGA - DX® 11 ***SPECIAL OFFER***
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£29)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
Sound Blaster® Audigy™ SE (£19)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Miscellaneous
FREE Total War Shogun™ 2 with any AMD® Radeon™ Graphics card!
Quantity
1

Price: £711.00 including VAT and delivery.

 

[LordBattleBeard]

Any reason you selected the ASUS® P8P67 DELUXE motherboard? Unless you plan on adding additional GPUs and other hardware to the machine then the standard ASUS® P8P67 would suffice. As with the money you save from the motherboard you could upgrade the rest of the components. I would also drop the sound card as the onboard is equal or better to it.

Based on your budget I'd recommend the following:

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8P67 (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6790 - DVI,HDMI,mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 3 Capable
Free Item
FREE Total War Shogun™ 2 with any AMD® Radeon™ Graphics card!
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
1TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £728.00 including VAT and delivery.

Depending on what you need it for (i.e. if you needed the machine for gaming) then you could drop the ram to 4GB and upgrade the GPU. Unless you need the ram for resource intensive applications, in which case 8GB is ideal.

Almost forgot, the silver warranty is only an additional £5 so I'd always recommend getting that.

 

[LFFPicard]

Don't forget the silver warranty and you might also want to squeeze a Caviar Black hard drive in there instead of the standard sata ones.

 

[Trix_steR]

Woah

Thanks everyone for the advice! (Specifically LordBattleBeard)
The adjustments will definitely help and still gimme a awesome new comp

 

[Trix_steR]

Okay, went over it again and got this-

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2400 Quad Core (3.10GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8P67 (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6870 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
2TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 32MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Miscellaneous
FREE Total War Shogun™ 2 with any AMD® Radeon™ Graphics card!
Quantity
1

Price: £796.00 including VAT and delivery.

Btw, This is the monitor I want-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

As said earlier, Antivirus, OS and Office software is already owned.

 

[LordBattleBeard]

Okay, went over it again and got this-

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2400 Quad Core (3.10GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8P67 (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6870 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
2TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 32MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
600W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£59)
Processor Cooling
SUPER QUIET 22dBA TRIPLE COPPER HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£19)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Miscellaneous
FREE Total War Shogun™ 2 with any AMD® Radeon™ Graphics card!
Quantity
1

Price: £796.00 including VAT and delivery.

Btw, This is the monitor I want-
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

As said earlier, Antivirus, OS and Office software is already owned.

Nice spec and upgrades. The only thing I would recommend based on that is dropping the unbranded HDD for the 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN, and definitely upgrade the warranty to silver for the extra £5. Should you have any problems down the line with a component failing within warranty then you would wish you did as it would cost you more in postage than the extra £5 now...

As for the monitor, anything made by Samsung is usually good quality and the specification doesn't look bad. Though the IIYAMA E2473HDS 24" LED sold by PC Specialist has a better overall spec to the samsung model, particularly the image response time, and LED is also superior in most respects to LCD as most people know. Coupled with the fact its actually cheaper I'd recommend considering it, brand really isn't everything

 

[Trix_steR]

Nice spec and upgrades. The only thing I would recommend based on that is dropping the unbranded HDD for the 2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN, and definitely upgrade the warranty to silver for the extra £5. Should you have any problems down the line with a component failing within warranty then you would wish you did as it would cost you more in postage than the extra £5 now...

Hmm seems to make more sense, ty

As for the monitor, anything made by Samsung is usually good quality and the specification doesn't look bad. Though the IIYAMA E2473HDS 24" LED sold by PC Specialist has a better overall spec to the samsung model, particularly the image response time, and LED is also superior in most respects to LCD as most people know. Coupled with the fact its actually cheaper I'd recommend considering it, brand really isn't everything

Brands do mean a lot to me, plus the Samsung one looks incredibly slick, as always (Besides the specs, I love that bit)
I'll consider both anyhow

 

[Trix_steR]

Update:
Yeah, This is a updated version of the computer system I want,
It has a better fan along with a better graphics card in comparison with the '1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6870 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable'.
The only thing the 5770 is missing to the 6870 is eyefinity support, besides that as far as I know, it's better (Suggestions appreciated).

This computer system I made here is for hard core gaming use. As in if there's a game I want, I should be able to play it at full graphics, record it with FRAPs with no lag, and even have a few Google chrome tabs on in the background (Half the games I own are on my PS3 though, but I still want a strong graphics card).
I also want to be able to host my Minecraft server on it, which is why 8gb of Ram is necessary for me. This 8gb of ram only uses 2slots, which means another 8 can be added in remaining 2 in the future with ease. Combine this with some Turtle beaches in the near future, the monitor I mentioned before (Link at bottom), my current Wireless keyboard and mouse along with my current 17" monitor for extended desktop (I manage the minecraft server/surf the net on 17", whilst in a game maybe movie etc on 24"), with all that, I'll have, in my eyes, a gaming computer that'll hopefully last me several years, I may even get Insurance for it lol, though I should be looking forward to a summer job with my step dad during the summer break to help pay for it -_-

Just one important question though, Will intel i5 work with Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit? That's the OS I have with me atm.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated, once again thanks to all that help me so far, you're all so awesome :3 (BattleBeard specifically)


Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® P8P67 (NEW REV 3.0): USB 3.0, SATA 6.0GB/s, CrossFireX™
Memory (RAM)
8GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 4GB)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD5770 - DVI,HDMI - DX® 11 ***SPECIAL OFFER***
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
2TB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD20EARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply
450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£29)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£49)
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
KASPERSKY ANTI-VIRUS 2010 - 1 Year Licence for 1 PC (£9)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 11 to 13 working days
Miscellaneous
FREE Total War Shogun™ 2 with any AMD® Radeon™ Graphics card!
Quantity
1

Price: £755.00 including VAT and delivery.

Monitor:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

 

[LFFPicard]

It will work but it will also make your 8GB of RAM useless.

32-bit operating systems can only allocate about 3.6GB of memory, this includes video memory as well.
To make full use of your system you will need a 64-bit system

 

[Rakk]

It will work but it will also make your 8GB of RAM useless.
32-bit operating systems can only allocate about 3.6GB of memory, this includes video memory as well.
To make full use of your system you will need a 64-bit system

This is very important, if you're planning on keeping with the 32-bit OS, all that extra RAM is completely useless.
I know this is just repeating what LFFPicard said, but it is important.

Also are you ever planning on overclocking, if not, you can drop down to the i5-2500 processor instead of the 'k' variant'

 

[Trix_steR]

It will work but it will also make your 8GB of RAM useless.

32-bit operating systems can only allocate about 3.6GB of memory, this includes video memory as well.
To make full use of your system you will need a 64-bit system

Looks like Im on another bargain hunt lol
Amazon, here I come
(Ty Btw Raff and LFFP)

 

[LFFPicard]

Simply put your 32-bit on ebay and buy the 64-bit with your system.

Job done