Thinking of buying mid range gaming PC.

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PC.Robb

Active member
This is what I've chosen, I'm looking to spend about 700-800 pounds on the Pc. Do you have any suggestions or better configs. Thanks.

Also what piece of hardware chosen is the bottleneck/worst.

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 955 (3.20GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION

Motherboard
ASUS® M5A99X EVO:USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, Quad CrossFireX™/SLI™

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti - 2 DVI,HDMI,VGA - 3D Vision Ready
Free Item
Free Item
FREE Batman Arkham City with any Nvidia® GeForce GTX560 or above!

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD7502AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

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 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE

Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

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 10 to 12 working days
Quantity 1
 
TudorVII

TudorVII

Enthusiast
Looks like a really good spec to me.
One thing I would suggest is to invest a little extra money on the PSU and get a Corsair 650W. Also most current games don't even use 4Gb of RAM, so you could swap it down and even go for the Samsung 1333Mhz option as the you won't notice a difference between the two unless you overclock. Apart from that, your rig looks ready to order to me.
 
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PC.Robb

Active member
Ok thanks, I'm also thinking about upgrading the cpu cooler from the triple heatpipe to the titan fenrir evo extreme, is it worth getting the titan?
 
TudorVII

TudorVII

Enthusiast
I couldn't tell you for sure, but because the Titan is such a big CPU cooler you may lose the side fan on your case if one comes included, as it just won't fit.
Honestly, as long as you're not amping your game settings up or running anything else that's going to be CPU heavy, you'd probably be better off keeping the side fan and sticking with the triple copper cooler.
IF you have any doubts about that, probably best to speak to PCS when you order.
 
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PC.Robb

Active member
I just want it for running 2010-2011 games on highest settings, I'm not looking to overclock or anything. Thanks for all the replies.
 
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DanteWilhelm

Bright Spark
this is what i think

i originally chose water cooling

i have gone for triple copper heatpipe


i WILL be running games lke crysis, metro 2033 on maximum settings in full HD


nobody on here said to change to the titan, in fact most advised against it 8)


and it said it was fine on PCS when I pressed proceed.


however if anyone thinks different let me know, i seriously need the cooling right.



my current pc gets so hot it makes weird creaking noises, i think the bearing in the fan is gone


on speedfan everything is boiling hit, and my room is very hot.


i don't want my baby to burn on me (oh really? burn baby burn?) YEH I WENT THERE



u know what grinds my gears? I ordered my PC a week before this batman thing came about, I ordered with GTX560 Ti 2gb
 
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DanteWilhelm

Bright Spark
I have chosen mine with corsair 650w, it looks to be of a solid design, extra power (headroom) is always a good thing, think of extra W as extra gb on your hard drive! it will run better!


about swapping the RAM, there is no price difference, so I stuck with the Kingston 1600mhz 8gb
 
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