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New Gaming PC, €800

Jim · 2013-01-22 22:16:46

Hi all, hoping you can help me out :) 1. What is your budget? €800 2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming / Photo processing 3. Do you need a copy of Windows? No 4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? Two old HDDs, but would want a reasonable SSD within budget constraints. 5. Do you need a…

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22-01-2013 11:16pm

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Hi all, hoping you can help me out

1. What is your budget? €800

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming / Photo processing

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? No

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? Two old HDDs, but would want a reasonable SSD within budget constraints.

5. Do you need a monitor? No. I am going to purchase my own monitor outside of the aboe budget.

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? No.

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? Yes

8. How can you pay? Credit Card

9. When are you purchasing? Within the next week if possible

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#2 22-01-2013 11:57pm
marco_polo

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This build has a 128GB SSD with about 75 euro left over for a new HDD if you'd like a more modern one. If you don't then that 75 is almost the exact difference between this and the i5 version subbing in this CPU and motherboard instead.

http://lb.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=56296&agid=1617
http://lb.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=59322&agid=1601

The GPU is out of stock at the moment so if it doesn't come back in similar alternatives will add 10-20 to the cost.

Item|Price
BitFenix Shinobi Midi-Tower USB 3.0 black, ohne Netzteil|€53.03
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€45.59
ASRock 970 Extreme3, AM3+, ATX|€70.34
8GB-Kit Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHz CL9|€42.78
AMD FX-8320 Prozessor, Boxed, Sockel AM3+|€154.15
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - Intel/AMD|€28.68
Crucial M4 128GB SSD 6,4cm (2,5")|€98.69
Samsung SH-118AB schwarz|€13.44
PowerColor Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition V2, 2GB DDR5|€198.44
Shipping|€18.99
Total|€724.13

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#3 05-02-2013 3:58pm
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If using photoshop, maybe go for 16GB's of RAM? The mobo supports 32GB's.

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#4 05-02-2013 6:00pm
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Damn, I had all the components linked and I deleted them all. How do I format the text as they are above? in any case, virtually every one of those above listed components are cheaper on Mindfactory.de. Both the CPU and GPU save almost 20 euro alone.

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#5 05-02-2013 6:10pm
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Gumbi wrote: »

Damn, I had all the components linked and I deleted them all. How do I format the text as they are above? in any case, virtually every one of those above listed components are cheaper on Mindfactory.de. Both the CPU and GPU save almost 20 euro alone.

Use Fluffys java script (handy to add as a bookmark in the browser), a quick test suggests seems to work just fine with mindfactory.de too.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056303834

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#6 05-02-2013 8:50pm
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Mindfactory are usually a bit cheaper but delivery cost is 30, and if you buy a case its another 30.

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#7 05-02-2013 10:31pm
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spix wrote: »

Mindfactory are usually a bit cheaper but delivery cost is 30, and if you buy a case its another 30.

http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/info/p744289_BitFenix-Shinobi-Core-Midi-Tower-ohne-Netzteil-schwarz.html

no, the case is cheaper? Plus you save at least 30 euro with the other components (just over 20 on the GPU and CPU alone). Shipping is only 11 euro more.

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#8 06-02-2013 12:04am
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Gumbi wrote: »

http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/info/p744289_BitFenix-Shinobi-Core-Midi-Tower-ohne-Netzteil-schwarz.html

no, the case is cheaper? Plus you save at least 30 euro with the other components (just over 20 on the GPU and CPU alone). Shipping is only 11 euro more.

No, if you order a case from mindfactory with other components you pay shipping twice, so its 60 euro. They keep cases in a different warehouse, contacted them about this before.

The case you linked to is also a cheaper version of the shinobi hence the 'core' in the name.

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#9 06-02-2013 1:38am
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spix wrote: »

No, if you order a case from mindfactory with other components you pay shipping twice, so its 60 euro. They keep cases in a different warehouse, contacted them about this before.

The case you linked to is also a cheaper version of the shinobi hence the 'core' in the name.

I stand corrected.

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