€700 Game Build

norrie rugger · 17-01-2012 6:33pm #1

1. What is your budget? €700

2. What will be the main purpose of the computer? Gaming [Skyrim, Fallout, Dragonage, Etc]

3. Do you need a copy of Windows? Yes

4. Can you use any parts from an old computer? Nope

5. Do you need a monitor? No

5b. If no, what resolution is your current monitor and do you plan to upgrade in the near future? [Will be hooking it up to my 1920x1080 59" Plasma TV] [Upgrade = No]

6. Do you need any of these peripherals? Will be a wired connection. Card Reader a plus but not essential. Don't need anything else

7. Are you willing to try overclocking? [No] Not till I get more confident

8. How can you pay? [Credit Card/Laser]

9. When are you purchasing? Whenever TBH

10. If you need help building it, where are you based? South Dublin but want to try myself.

Serephucus · 17-01-2012 6:42pm

This build is more CPU-strong than GPU-strong, but that'll work for Skyrim at least.

Item|Price
Total build cost: €693.08 + €30 shipping
BitFenix Merc Alpha|€31.78
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€33.65
Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB SATA 6GB's|€75.00
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit (SB-Version)|€81.75
Intel Core i5-2500K Box, LGA1155|€197.91
ASRock Z68 Pro3 (B3), Sockel 1155, ATX|€93.99
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 550W|€53.01
Club 3D Radeon 6850 1024MB, AMD Radeon HD 6850, PCI-Express|€125.99

deconduo · 17-01-2012 6:44pm

Item|Price
Total build cost: €641.13 + €30 shipping
Intel Core i5-2400 Box, LGA1155|€166.99
ASRock H61M-HVS (B3), Sockel 1155, mATX|€42.52
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€33.65
Samsung SpinPoint F4 320GB, SATA II (HD322GJ)|€75.00
Xigmatek Asgard III Midi Tower - black, ohne Netzteil|€31.99
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 450W|€41.07
Samsung SH-222AB bare schwarz SATA|€15.58
Sapphire HD6870 1G GDDR5 PCI-E DL-DVI-I+SL-DVI-D / HDMI / DP|€146.89
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit SB-Version Englisch|€87.44

Card reader if you want:
http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=7435&agid=221

Bigger hard drives if needed:
500GB
http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=28151&agid=689

1TB
http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=28152&agid=689

ShadowHearth · 17-01-2012 6:52pm

Serephucus wrote: »

This build is more CPU-strong than GPU-strong, but that'll work for Skyrim at least.

Item|Price
Total build cost: €693.08 + €30 shipping
BitFenix Merc Alpha|€31.78
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€33.65
Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB SATA 6GB's|€75.00
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit (SB-Version)|€81.75
Intel Core i5-2500K Box, LGA1155|€197.91
ASRock Z68 Pro3 (B3), Sockel 1155, ATX|€93.99
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 550W|€53.01
Club 3D Radeon 6850 1024MB, AMD Radeon HD 6850, PCI-Express|€125.99

this just cries for 20eu extra to spend on this:

http://www1.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=46795&agid=1004

norrie rugger · 18-01-2012 9:39am

Cheers lads

norrie rugger · 18-01-2012 12:21pm

Serephucus wrote: »

This build is more CPU-strong than GPU-strong, but that'll work for Skyrim at least.

Item|Price
Total build cost: €693.08 + €30 shipping
BitFenix Merc Alpha|€31.78
8GB-Kit G.Skill PC3-10667U CL9|€33.65
Seagate Barracuda 7200 500GB SATA 6GB's|€75.00
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit (SB-Version)|€81.75
Intel Core i5-2500K Box, LGA1155|€197.91
ASRock Z68 Pro3 (B3), Sockel 1155, ATX|€93.99
Super-Flower Amazon 80Plus 550W|€53.01
Club 3D Radeon 6850 1024MB, AMD Radeon HD 6850, PCI-Express|€125.99

Am I overlooking it, or is there an optical drive here?

Serephucus · 18-01-2012 12:24pm

There isn't, no, sorry. Chuck this in as well if you want one.

http://www2.hardwareversand.de/articledetail.jsp?aid=47362&agid=699&lb

norrie rugger · 19-01-2012 2:54pm

How do I pay with hardwareversand?
I am to a page that states

Thank you for place an order cash on prepayment.
Please pay on credit transfer to successional account. Please use one of these accounts exclusively, even if you know further admits of accounts.

Please be appreciative of this restriction. We refer to the instance that the procedure was automated therewith the transaction will be done as fast as can.

If you have any questions concerning your order please call us on the phonenumber 01805 / 711 117 (0,14 EUR / min for calls on the landline network of Deutsche Telekom. Calling on cellular phone or on other networks higher costs may result.).

Completionist · 19-01-2012 4:00pm

Bank transfer, either online or in a branch.

norrie rugger · 19-01-2012 4:07pm

Completionist wrote: »

Bank transfer, either online or in a branch.

Cheers lad, on the transfer do I quote my name, the order number or both?

Completionist · 19-01-2012 4:37pm

Fill out whatever the form tells you to fill out. I did the transfer in the bank when i made my order, So i did have to fill things like my name and address, Not sure if its the same online.

I think they use the "Intended Purpose" field to link the bank transfer to your specific order, So make sure that's included.

deconduo · 19-01-2012 4:44pm

norrie rugger wrote: »

That is the important bit. The bit that the supplier sees, so I will put my order number there

Yeah the 3 important numbers are the:
SWIFT
IBAN
Intended Purpose

If you have all those you're grand.

norrie rugger · 25-01-2012 12:40pm

Got this yesterday and all was going well. Put it all together, plugged it in flicked the switch and bugger. It tripped the switch in the hall circuit box.

Am I in posession of an expensive coffee table, or has the PSU blown?

Monotype · 25-01-2012 1:10pm

Did you screw in the brass mounts to the case and install the I/O shield before putting in the motherboard?

norrie rugger · 25-01-2012 1:13pm

Monotype wrote: »

Did you screw in the brass mounts to the case and install the I/O shield before putting in the motherboard?

yeah

Monotype · 25-01-2012 4:19pm

I suppose you could try it with the bare minimum.
Disconnect the power. Take the motherboard out of the case. Connect the CPU + heatsink, PSU and RAM.
Reconnect the power and start it by shorting the two power pins with a screwdriver/piece of metal (where you connect the case switches to the motherboard). If something similar happens again, it's most likely the PSU or possibly the motherboard.

norrie rugger · 25-01-2012 4:20pm

Monotype wrote: »

I suppose you could try it with the bare minimum.
Disconnect the power. Take the motherboard out of the case. Connect the CPU + heatsink, PSU and RAM.
Reconnect the power and start it by shorting the two power pins with a screwdriver/piece of metal (where you connect the case switches to the motherboard). If something similar happens again, it's most likely the PSU or possibly the motherboard.

Will do, will see how that goes later

deconduo · 25-01-2012 6:28pm

Are you hooking up the monitor to the graphics card rather than the motherboard?

Monotype · 25-01-2012 6:35pm

deconduo wrote: »

Are you hooking up the monitor to the graphics card rather than the motherboard?

Was that supposed to be for that other thread about a blank screen?

norrie rugger · 25-01-2012 6:51pm

Looks to be the PSU.
Took the board out and connected new psu and nothing.
Stripped and old weak psu from old pc and that started the boot up

deconduo · 25-01-2012 7:04pm

Monotype wrote: »

Was that supposed to be for that other thread about a blank screen?

Yep :pac:

jaykhunter · 25-01-2012 10:02pm

Glad to hear your computer on the whole is ok. Could've been an expensive debacle! What PSU are u using now? Do you think it's a faulty Amazon 550w PSU or not enough power in a working PSU?

norrie rugger · 25-01-2012 10:10pm

Hope it is a faulty psu, unless someone can calculate the power draw

Monotype · 26-01-2012 11:25am

What was it powering? 2500K and a 6850? That's looooaads of room for a 550W PSU. You could put in a second 6850 and you'd still be ok.

Since the other PSU works, you can deem the new PSU as faulty. You were just unlucky with the PSU. It can happen regardless of what brand or PSU you buy. Maybe they sometimes get damaged in shipping, but I've found that, like hard drives, they either break very early on or keep going for years. Unless you get a cheap PSU in which case it's a randomly ticking timebomb.

norrie rugger · 26-01-2012 12:08pm

Monotype wrote: »

What was it powering? 2500K and a 6850? That's looooaads of room for a 550W PSU. You could put in a second 6850 and you'd still be ok.

Since the other PSU works, you can deem the new PSU as faulty. You were just unlucky with the PSU. It can happen regardless of what brand or PSU you buy. Maybe they sometimes get damaged in shipping, but I've found that, like hard drives, they either break very early on or keep going for years. Unless you get a cheap PSU in which case it's a randomly ticking timebomb.

Second 6850 you say???? hmmm

Will wait to get this one up and running then that is an interesting proposition.

Already in the process of sending the PSU back. Fingers crossed this time.

Monotype · 26-01-2012 1:41pm

If you got the z68 Pro3 board, there's only room for one card, but yeah, you're not short on power.

norrie rugger · 31-01-2012 2:25pm

Has anyone ever returned anything to HWV?
TNT have a signed retutrn slip sent to me, from Friday.

Called HWV yesterday and they did not know that they had received it and not have any date of completing the ticket

norrie rugger · 09-02-2012 7:59am

It's alive... IT'S ALIVE!!!!!

Thanks for all your help guys.

Eboggles · 09-02-2012 8:21am

norrie rugger wrote: »

It's alive... IT'S ALIVE!!!!!

Thanks for all your help guys.

Pics!

theboyhurley · 09-02-2012 1:15pm

norrie rugger wrote: »

It's alive... IT'S ALIVE!!!!!

Thanks for all your help guys.

I'd be interested in how noisy/quiet your build is.
Your build is identical to my draft build, so i'd love to hear your feedback...
how do you find the case (early days I know, but so far)?

norrie rugger · 09-02-2012 6:57pm

Got it running last night. Have a conference today and my Stag weekend so can't comment till Monday

€700 Game Build

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