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I plumped for a pre-overclocked i5 OC @ 4Ghz, Corsair H50 cooler, motherboard and RAM bundle from overclockers.co.uk. Just add decent Gfx, HDD and SSD and you have a kick ass system for a lot less than a pre-built.
Best of both worlds, all the hard work of a stable overclock is done and just a case of sticking it in a case, which is a piece of piss.
Same old story.
Trust me – I have no fears about building a system… but I can assure you i priced my machine on overclockers et all as components and couldn’t get close to the pre built price from the big companies.
What you are saying was true a few years ago Beer – but I don’t think you have checked prices properly.
hmmm, horses for courses, I just specced a similar set up from PC specalists & parts from overclockers ( not the cheapest for parts) and the pre-built set up was £1350 while the set up for parts was £1150. It wasn’t an exact match, but as close as i could. The prebuilt was at stock speed while the parts set up was part of an Overclocked Bundle @ 4.4Ghz.
I was going to say at least the pre-built system would have a decent warrenty with it, but it states 3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)……but you get a 1 year guarantee with anything, and 3 years for labour??? doesn’t sound worth the ink it’s written in, what could possible go wrong with the “labour”?
It is sooooo simple to throw a few components in a case and spend as long as you want with the cable management.
I sooner have £200 in my pocket or upgrade a few bits.
Parts set up:
Krypton Z68 590i Intel Core i5 2500K 3.30GHz @ 4.40GHz Overclocked Bundle £235.20
(£196.00) £235.20
(£196.00)
Options applied to the above product:
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.98
(£66.65) £79.98
(£66.65)
Options applied to the above product:
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/4GX) £35.99
(£29.99) £35.99
(£29.99)
Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game Asus ATI Radeon HD 6950 DirectCU II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £191.99
(£159.99) £191.99
(£159.99)
IIyama Prolite E2473HDS 24″ Widescreen LED Monitor – Black IIyama Prolite E2473HDS 24″ Widescreen LED Monitor – Black £143.99
(£119.99) £143.99
(£119.99)
Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance ’80 Plus Bronze’ Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXV2UK) Corsair Enthusiast Series TX 750W V2 High Performance ’80 Plus Bronze’ Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXV2UK) £87.98
(£73.32) £87.98
(£73.32)
Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case – Black Pearl Fractal Design Define R3 Midi Tower Case – Black Pearl £84.98
(£70.82) £84.98
(£70.82)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit – OEM (GFC-02050) Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit – OEM (GFC-02050) £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5″ SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive Crucial RealSSD M4 64GB 2.5″ SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
LiteOn iHBS112-37 12x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive – Black (OEM) LiteOn iHBS112-37 12x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive – Black (OEM) £66.98
(£55.82) £66.98
(£55.82)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache – OEM (HD103SJ) Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache – OEM (HD103SJ) £44.99
(£37.49) £44.99
(£37.49)
Sub Total : £943.39
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £22.20
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £193.12
Total : £1,158.71PC Specalist:
Case
FRACTAL DESIGN R3 – BLACK PEARL CASEProcessor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500k Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD GraphicsMotherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireXMemory (RAM)
4GB KINGSTON HYPER-X SPECIAL EDITION GREY – DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 2GB KIT)Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ HD6950 – 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP – DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 CapableMemory – 1st Hard Disk
1TB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)2nd Hard Disk
80GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 270MB/sR | 90MB/sW)1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
12x BLU-RAY RE-WRITER DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£79)Power Supply
CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£86)Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO II A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£59)Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARDOperating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit – inc DVD & Licence (£79)Monitor
IIYAMA E2473HDS 24″ LED WIDESCREEN, 2 x HDMI/DVI-D HD 1920×1080 (£169)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 10 to 12 working days
Quantity 1£1344 inc VAT and Delivery.
Well – i am happy to be proved wrong but a few points.
1) the motherboard on the specialist deal is about 50 quid dearer than the OC one (on the OC own website)
2) You would save £30 buying the monitor elsewhere (I bought my PC from specialist – but bought my monitor from overclockers for example!
3) You are comparing a water cooled system (specialist) to an air cooled system (OC).
Still – I take your point, there might not be much in it. Last I looked I got EXACT spec comparison between OC and specialist and specialist was cheaper.. but that was a while ago now.
i helped a friend buy a PC recently and after pricing them up found that SCAN had the best deal on at the time for a pre built so went with that. You do need to shop around a bit.
oo thanks for taking the time to add to an old post, appreciate it.
Still unsure what I want although did see a PC on specialist site for £700 odd quid (+VAT) which would do me I reckon, had decent stuff on it too but didnt know if it was overclocked as standard.. stil dont but guess it wont be
I dont need OS as I already have W7 both 32 and 64 and can use my works laptop code to register the 64 bit and keep the other 32 bit to sell on.. reck I could get £450 for mine which is pretty good as it is, I just want to be able to play BF3 hassle free (and FC3 when thats out) oh and RO at full also. 🙂
also dont require monitor and though hassle free made it good, although I do agree this 3 yr labour gizzle is a bit wierd, I dont need that
Was looking at this
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Vortex-1000-gaming-pc/
Or this if just components..
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-063-OE&tool=3
ooo i’m in a bit of a tiz!
Heh, I’d still go with the overclocked components, add a 6950 and throw em in with a crowbar, try to add a SSD for the OS and selected games because they are like shit of a stick and reasonably priced for an 80Gb.
Do it, do it NOW…..doooo eeeet
re overclocking Insane – it isnt standard on the pc specialist comps – but if you go for the water cooling for the CPU like me you will find it easy i am sure. the asus motherboard comes with a very simple tool that you can use from within windows to push your overclock up.
I have been lazy and not done it yet – but will just before bf3 comes out.
The warranty is priobably not needed for someone with your computer skills – but still – nice to know that all the components in your machine have been tested TOGETHER… and been proven to work for 24 hours before being shipped to you.
If the whole thing goes pear shaped you just send it back in the first year… if you build it yourself and do something stupid like fry the MB or such like then you just have a pile of junk. 🙂
I only just bought the GTX470 a few months back, was going to stick with that but umm.. want sexualness for BF3.. and general speed as this one struggle at the simplist of tasks like multi extracting RARs! 🙁
p.s. why the ATi and not a 580 bytheway?
IMO, the ATI’s are best bang/buck cards at the minute…..sure, if you have a spare £400 go for the 580, screw it, have 2. 🙂
470 should be fine insane. I wouldn’t buy another gfx card just now if I were you.
I bought NVIDI for use with adobe premiere – if I didnt use that then I would have bought ATI as I agree with what Beer said.
if you go for a z68 chipset on your MB it can do SSD caching of your most used applications so you can get away with a small 20gb SSD and have the advantages for games like BF£, the first time it loads up from your HD it will be cached (first load up will be as normal time wise, subsequent load ups will be quicker), of course you could just install BF3 on a 20 gb SSD and have the advantage all the time, but SSD cachigng will cache whatever application your using (and shuffle off the ones your not using). Just a thought if you want to save a bit of cash.
I take it you an use these SSD’s as a secondary drive to a Sata et al? Was thinking of normal Sata for OS and seperate SSD for games alone…
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