Building a PC, advice please!

[Dectomax]

Ok, so as the title says I'm building a PC, so without dragging this on too much, here is what I've been looking at so far.

GTX460 ( Possibly a GTX560 )
AMD Phenom ii x6 Black Series
8GB Ripjaws DDR3 RAM
AM3 Motherboard
1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
800wt PSU

All together, that'll cost me around £340. ( Nabbing bits in deals on ebay is awesome! )

So, what do you guys think? Anything I can upgrade or change without adding too much more to the cost?

 

[JimmyC99]

Umm i know you can get a GTX560 (or the 550ti, cant remember) for £150 on ebuyer.

 

[Blondi3]

Are you planning on upgrading it along the way? Honestly a 460 will not last too long on it's own if you want to keep everything at max settings. If you can afford it (it'll cost you) buy an SSD for actually running the games you play most often. Doesn't have to be too big. Or get a 10k RPM HDD.

 

[Bigsmith]

Sounds like you don't need to be told much about computers, but I can give you some advice:

Make sure you got for something like a coolmaster or other decent brand of case.

For the love of god make sure your Mobo can actually handle 6GB of RAM, basically make sure it's 64bit.

Also, make sure you have a 64bit operating system, I'd also suggest buying the OS although this could add a good £100 to the cost.

An other important thing, have one set of fans as air intake and one set of fans as the out take, this causes a "breeze" in the case and keeps everything cooler.

 

[Dectomax]

Umm i know you can get a GTX560 (or the 550ti, cant remember) for £150 on ebuyer.

I seen the GTX460 for £103 on Ebay and with a tight budget decided that it would pretty much deal with whatever I wanted to play, I'm not the "overkill" type of PC gamer. A modest machine is what I'm aiming for at the moment.

Though, I may have to go and see. From 1GB of GDDR5, to just under 4GB of GDDR5, for just another £30ish is very tempting.

 

[Blondi3]

Sounds like you don't need to be told much about computers, but I can give you some advice:

Make sure you got for something like a coolmaster or other decent brand of case.

For the love of god make sure your Mobo can actually handle 6GB of RAM, basically make sure it's 64bit.

Also, make sure you have a 64bit operating system, I'd also suggest buying the OS although this could add a good £100 to the cost.

An other important thing, have one set of fans as air intake and one set of fans as the out take, this causes a "breeze" in the case and keeps everything cooler.

His mobo is fine, from what I remember, but otherwise great advice.

 

[Dectomax]

Sounds like you don't need to be told much about computers, but I can give you some advice:

Make sure you got for something like a coolmaster or other decent brand of case.

For the love of god make sure your Mobo can actually handle 6GB of RAM, basically make sure it's 64bit.

Also, make sure you have a 64bit operating system, I'd also suggest buying the OS although this could add a good £100 to the cost.

An other important thing, have one set of fans as air intake and one set of fans as the out take, this causes a "breeze" in the case and keeps everything cooler.

Yeah, I had a friend who was trying to build a PC and didn't understand the 32/64-bit stuff...First thing I checked. The MB is 64-bit and can hold up to 16Gb of RAM.

Not sure on a case yet, I'm just looking for the expensive bits first. As I said, I'm not really that bothered by the flashy lights and stuff, a nice, sleek design will do. ( I don't intend on pummelling it either )

 

[Bigsmith]

Sounds like you don't need to be told much about computers, but I can give you some advice:

Make sure you got for something like a coolmaster or other decent brand of case.

For the love of god make sure your Mobo can actually handle 6GB of RAM, basically make sure it's 64bit.

Also, make sure you have a 64bit operating system, I'd also suggest buying the OS although this could add a good £100 to the cost.

An other important thing, have one set of fans as air intake and one set of fans as the out take, this causes a "breeze" in the case and keeps everything cooler.

His mobo is fine, from what I remember, but otherwise great advice.

Thanks, I always dread getting quoted on these forums for some reason. XD

 

[Dectomax]

Are you planning on upgrading it along the way? Honestly a 460 will not last too long on it's own if you want to keep everything at max settings. If you can afford it (it'll cost you) buy an SSD for actually running the games you play most often. Doesn't have to be too big. Or get a 10k RPM HDD.

As someone else has said, they seen a GTX560 going for around £150, I might snatch that up quick if I can. Would certainly stop me having to upgrade in the next year or so!

 

[Blondi3]

Are you planning on upgrading it along the way? Honestly a 460 will not last too long on it's own if you want to keep everything at max settings. If you can afford it (it'll cost you) buy an SSD for actually running the games you play most often. Doesn't have to be too big. Or get a 10k RPM HDD.

As someone else has said, they seen a GTX560 going for around £150, I might snatch that up quick if I can. Would certainly stop me having to upgrade in the next year or so!

Yeah, that came up after I posted mine, although it was posted earlier =] I'd highly recommend doing that.

 

[Dectomax]

Your power supply is quite strong. You will probably be pushing about 450w from what you have listed. A better Video Card is all I would suggest. The 460 is already last years model (so to say).

I don't intend to run games on Ultra and it seems like it'd run Battlefield 3 ok on high. But I'm looking at a GTX560 now that's £137. which is only £34 more expensive, might nab that quick!

 

[Bigsmith]

Sounds like you don't need to be told much about computers, but I can give you some advice:

Make sure you got for something like a coolmaster or other decent brand of case.

For the love of god make sure your Mobo can actually handle 6GB of RAM, basically make sure it's 64bit.

Also, make sure you have a 64bit operating system, I'd also suggest buying the OS although this could add a good £100 to the cost.

An other important thing, have one set of fans as air intake and one set of fans as the out take, this causes a "breeze" in the case and keeps everything cooler.

Yeah, I had a friend who was trying to build a PC and didn't understand the 32/64-bit stuff...First thing I checked. The MB is 64-bit and can hold up to 16Gb of RAM.

Not sure on a case yet, I'm just looking for the expensive bits first. As I said, I'm not really that bothered by the flashy lights and stuff, a nice, sleek design will do. ( I don't intend on pummelling it either )

When it comes to lights and stuff neither do I. But the reason why I brought up the case was because you can get some really decent ones that have a MASSIVE intake fan on the front just below the power button, the means that you can use that as intake and all the ones you put in as outtake.

Also, I just remembered, Heat conducting glue stuff (I can't remember the name right now) that you put on between the Processor and the heat sink for it, it sticks the heat sink to the top of the processor but my word does it increase the rate of heat transfer from the processor to the heat sink. Increases both life and speed of it.

 

[Dectomax]

Sounds like you don't need to be told much about computers, but I can give you some advice:

Make sure you got for something like a coolmaster or other decent brand of case.

For the love of god make sure your Mobo can actually handle 6GB of RAM, basically make sure it's 64bit.

Also, make sure you have a 64bit operating system, I'd also suggest buying the OS although this could add a good £100 to the cost.

An other important thing, have one set of fans as air intake and one set of fans as the out take, this causes a "breeze" in the case and keeps everything cooler.

Yeah, I had a friend who was trying to build a PC and didn't understand the 32/64-bit stuff...First thing I checked. The MB is 64-bit and can hold up to 16Gb of RAM.

Not sure on a case yet, I'm just looking for the expensive bits first. As I said, I'm not really that bothered by the flashy lights and stuff, a nice, sleek design will do. ( I don't intend on pummelling it either )

When it comes to lights and stuff neither do I. But the reason why I brought up the case was because you can get some really decent ones that have a MASSIVE intake fan on the front just below the power button, the means that you can use that as intake and all the ones you put in as outtake.

Also, I just remembered, Heat conducting glue stuff (I can't remember the name right now) that you put on between the Processor and the heat sink for it, it sticks the heat sink to the top of the processor but my word does it increase the rate of heat transfer from the processor to the heat sink. Increases both life and speed of it.

I'll have a looksie for cases, if I can find an awesome shiny one for cheap-ish I'll pick it up.

Think the stuff is just called Thermal Paste/Thermal Glue? I wont be the one putting that on. ( Don't trust myself! )

 

[synobal]

My advice is don't get a knock off power supply, and if you can get a power supply that uses a modular cabling system. Removing unneeded power cables frees up room in the case and allows for better circulation.

 

[Zipa]

Sounds like you don't need to be told much about computers, but I can give you some advice:

Make sure you got for something like a coolmaster or other decent brand of case.

For the love of god make sure your Mobo can actually handle 6GB of RAM, basically make sure it's 64bit.

Also, make sure you have a 64bit operating system, I'd also suggest buying the OS although this could add a good £100 to the cost.

An other important thing, have one set of fans as air intake and one set of fans as the out take, this causes a "breeze" in the case and keeps everything cooler.

Yeah, I had a friend who was trying to build a PC and didn't understand the 32/64-bit stuff...First thing I checked. The MB is 64-bit and can hold up to 16Gb of RAM.

Not sure on a case yet, I'm just looking for the expensive bits first. As I said, I'm not really that bothered by the flashy lights and stuff, a nice, sleek design will do. ( I don't intend on pummelling it either )

When it comes to lights and stuff neither do I. But the reason why I brought up the case was because you can get some really decent ones that have a MASSIVE intake fan on the front just below the power button, the means that you can use that as intake and all the ones you put in as outtake.

Also, I just remembered, Heat conducting glue stuff (I can't remember the name right now) that you put on between the Processor and the heat sink for it, it sticks the heat sink to the top of the processor but my word does it increase the rate of heat transfer from the processor to the heat sink. Increases both life and speed of it.

I'll have a looksie for cases, if I can find an awesome shiny one for cheap-ish I'll pick it up.

Think the stuff is just called Thermal Paste/Thermal Glue? I wont be the one putting that on. ( Don't trust myself! )

It is called thermal paste and is totally impossible to fuck up applying it, google a guide or two on it but its simple. If you can butter bread you can put thermal paste on a processor.

 

[Dectomax]

Your power supply is quite strong. You will probably be pushing about 450w from what you have listed. A better Video Card is all I would suggest. The 460 is already last years model (so to say).

I don't intend to run games on Ultra and it seems like it'd run Battlefield 3 ok on high. But I'm looking at a GTX560 now that's £137. which is only £34 more expensive, might nab that quick!

First off. Hell yeah to Battlefield 3 I just upgraded my comp as well. (we even have a few of the same pieces)
Second, Score that's a good buy not too much more but should give you about a year longer before you replace it.

Haha, Battlefields the only real reason why I'm bothering to make the switch to Desktop from laptop.

I might get a few years out of it, I'm not too bothered if I have to turn the GFX down to "High" to play! xD

 

[Bigsmith]

Begone almighty wall of text.

I'll have a looksie for cases, if I can find an awesome shiny one for cheap-ish I'll pick it up.

Think the stuff is just called Thermal Paste/Thermal Glue? I wont be the one putting that on. ( Don't trust myself! )

Sounds like a good idea.

Also, yeah that's the stuff, if you can find someone who's done it before then that would be a good idea. Either way, I do say you really need to find a away to put it on. :3

 

[Dectomax]

Sounds like you don't need to be told much about computers, but I can give you some advice:

Make sure you got for something like a coolmaster or other decent brand of case.

For the love of god make sure your Mobo can actually handle 6GB of RAM, basically make sure it's 64bit.

Also, make sure you have a 64bit operating system, I'd also suggest buying the OS although this could add a good £100 to the cost.

An other important thing, have one set of fans as air intake and one set of fans as the out take, this causes a "breeze" in the case and keeps everything cooler.

Yeah, I had a friend who was trying to build a PC and didn't understand the 32/64-bit stuff...First thing I checked. The MB is 64-bit and can hold up to 16Gb of RAM.

Not sure on a case yet, I'm just looking for the expensive bits first. As I said, I'm not really that bothered by the flashy lights and stuff, a nice, sleek design will do. ( I don't intend on pummelling it either )

When it comes to lights and stuff neither do I. But the reason why I brought up the case was because you can get some really decent ones that have a MASSIVE intake fan on the front just below the power button, the means that you can use that as intake and all the ones you put in as outtake.

Also, I just remembered, Heat conducting glue stuff (I can't remember the name right now) that you put on between the Processor and the heat sink for it, it sticks the heat sink to the top of the processor but my word does it increase the rate of heat transfer from the processor to the heat sink. Increases both life and speed of it.

I'll have a looksie for cases, if I can find an awesome shiny one for cheap-ish I'll pick it up.

Think the stuff is just called Thermal Paste/Thermal Glue? I wont be the one putting that on. ( Don't trust myself! )

It is called thermal paste and is totally impossible to fuck up applying it, google a guide or two on it but its simple. If you can butter bread you can put thermal paste on a processor.

You have noooooo idea, I'm the type of person who trips over a flat surface! :')
Still a few weeks till I'll have all the bits, so I'll dig through a few guides before hand.