My cheap gaming PC

[Kitson]

Hello, this is my first thread on here after watching some of Linus' video's on Youtube.

Here is the spec's of my computer

- i5 2320 3.0ghz

- 8gb Ram (Just cheap stuff)

- AMD 6670 graphics card, slight overclock to 855mhz

- Corsair CX600M Modular power supply

- Fractal Designs Core 1000 case

- 1 * 2TB Seagate barracuda HD

- 1 * 500GB Seagate barracuda HD ( used for backing up my uni work!)

I am looking into upgrading my graphics card as it seems to be a massive bottle kneck of my system, not sure what to go for though so please feel free to suggest one :).

Today i upgraded my crappy PSU to the Corsair one to give headroom for upgrades too.

Pics -

Comments and things welcome BTW!

- Kitson

[Somebody97]

What is your budget?

Where do you live?

[Kitson]

I am from the UK, Ideally i would like to spend less that £200 ( Not sure what that comes to in $ mind ).

[kemical]

you can get EVGA NVIDIA GTX660 superclocked its about $190 on amazon.com not sure about uk its a good upgrade if you have more go for the 660ti

[Kitson]

Yeah i had a look at that card on E-buyer, wanted to keep it below £200 to allow some money for an SSD.

Thanks for the recommendation Kemical.

[DJ46]

I would go for a 7870 XT, chopped down 7950 core, about as powerfull as a 660 Ti

[Helltech]

This is by far the best graphics card you can get for 200 euros.

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[DJ46]

There are better coolers for it...

[Kitson]

The 7870 seems to be a good buy with 2 free games! ... Should be a good upgrade over my current 6670 i take it ?

Cheers guys! :)

[Kitson]

As i seem to have got the bug for PC building again i decided to make another upgrade today; in the form of a Corsair Carbide 300r. This will allow me much more room for future plans etc.

Next major thing to do is graphics card (still pondering this ATM). If anyone has a good recommendation for some lighting for me then that would be great :).

Excuse the state of my floor, currently decorating!

Thoughts? .. ATX board would look much better imo.

[Samdb]

The 7870 seems to be a good buy with 2 free games! ... Should be a good upgrade over my current 6670 i take it ?

Cheers guys! :)

Don't forget Far Cry: Blood Dragon

[Kitson]

So i got round to ordering my new graphics card today, as per the recormendations i got on here i have gone with a AMD 7870. Also have done some more cable management inside my 300r :).

 

Here is the card i have ordered, what do you think?.. Good deal?

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/413364-sapphire-hd-7870-ghz-oc-edition-dual-dvi-hdmi-displayport-pci-e-graphics-11199-19-20g

[Kitson]

Couple of pic's with the 7870 in :). Very happy with it so far although it would seem im not able to claim the never settle bundle with it :(

 

 

 

I had to use my old right angled sata cable when putting this in as the card covers my sata ports and i could not fit in the black one i had.

 

Comments welcome!

[Musguelha17]

Needs cable management.

[Kitson]

Needs cable management.

 

I was thinking this too. Its pretty difficult given the matx board, but i may give tidying it up another go soon

[Jonas86]

I put together my friends computer on the 25'th of march during 25 minutes or something the cable manangement wasn't my best same as mine but it still works rather than hanging all over, so it could be the motherboard being small that makes cable management difficult or that the builder is an amateur like myself :), i hope my next build will be really good looking with good cable management

[A10-FTW]

looks cool, i like it, good build :)

[andrevautour]

300R looks good. I like the size of the window on those. Nice system :)

[daveyjones]

Looking better and better! Can't go wrong at all with a respectable, clean, and well balanced build. :D

[Kitson]

Thanks for the comments guys :). This is my first full build although i did some tinkering with a really old amd athlon x64 build u had years ago.

I will try to do something with the cable management but i think im going to be limited by the fact im using matx board when the design suits a full atx board really.

[TicTac]

Looks awesome now nice improvement!