Theydon Bois
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Thought I would break away from my HTPC thread with regards to my gaming PC, creating a thread within the bosom of you lovely people.
I am definitely picking up an upgrade in the next week, as well as having an offer on my old bits next month, so I am basically writting down stuff as to my possible upgrade paths.
As a refresher, this is the last update relating to my PC in my HTPC thread, and the spec is as follows: a Antec P180b case; Coolermaster M620; Asus P5K-E; Q6600 [email protected]; 4Gb Corsair 1066Mhz RAM; 1Gb XFX 5870; Samsung 226BW
I added in the 1Tb drive taken from the HTPC to my gaming PC, and again did what I could with the cables. All this did was annoy me, and make want to get the Corsair 650D now!
For instance, this is the cables from a modular PSU. On the newer cases, you can feed this round the back, but sadly I have to scrunch it up and stash it where I can.
I remove the lower drive bay and try and see what I can do with them anyway.
I then sorted out the lower drive bay ready to add the second drive.
All done, and looking mighty fine!
Just some random shots, the Titan Fenrir, and a shot of my 5870.
The Corsair 650D was released in March, but due to holidays, Car MOT/Service and other bloody things spending my money, it meant that I had to sadly gaze loving at it without actually buying it.
Fast forward a few months, and cash is available to spend, huzzah! Its not really a dilema, but I have a mate going to buy the guts (Board, CPU, RAM) of my PC above, meaning that along with a couple hundred quid this and next month, I should be able to get my Sandy Bridge up and running.......
So the following is my list of parts.
Motherboard
Asus Sabretoth P67 £156
Asus P8P67 £110
Gigabyte UD4 £140
Gigabyte Z68 £145
CPU
i5-2500K £156 (till 18th May with Free Operation Flashpoint: Red River)
Heatsink
Dark Rock CPU Fan £35
RAM
4Gb Vengamce Blue RAM £40
Case
Corsair 650D Case £140
Add another £55 for the balance of my cabling - got some of these already.
Plan for this month - probably CPU and heatsink. CPU as I want to take advantage of the free Flashpoint game, which I would buy anyway, meaning an effective £15-20 saving. Thanks to Miss Chief? I think for the heads up on that one.
Next Month, the balance, but probably minus the case, depending on what cash I have spare, and helped along by the fact that I will earn on my own bits to fund these. It may work out just right actually.....
Only 4Gb of RAM as I only have 32bit Windows 7. Not seen enough to say that 8Gb is MASSIVELY better yet anyway, and it would only add another £120 to the budget (£80 for the OS and another £40 for the extra 4Gb RAM)
Huzzah for upgrades!
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Carried forward from Existing build
XFX 5870 GPU
Coolermaster M620 PSU
Sony SATA DVD Writer
2 x Samsung Spinpoints 1TB
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Purchases
May: Intel i5-2500k CPU (£155 with free Operation Flashpoint: Red River)
May: Corsair 650D Case (£120)
June: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 Motherboard (£150)
June: Agilty 3 SSD (£95)
June: Dark Rock Advanced Heatsink (£40)
June: Corsair Vengance RAM (£38)
June: Thermal Paste and SATA3 cable (£6)
June: Windows 7 64 Bit (£40)
June: White Braided Cables (£23)
I am definitely picking up an upgrade in the next week, as well as having an offer on my old bits next month, so I am basically writting down stuff as to my possible upgrade paths.
As a refresher, this is the last update relating to my PC in my HTPC thread, and the spec is as follows: a Antec P180b case; Coolermaster M620; Asus P5K-E; Q6600 [email protected]; 4Gb Corsair 1066Mhz RAM; 1Gb XFX 5870; Samsung 226BW
I added in the 1Tb drive taken from the HTPC to my gaming PC, and again did what I could with the cables. All this did was annoy me, and make want to get the Corsair 650D now!
For instance, this is the cables from a modular PSU. On the newer cases, you can feed this round the back, but sadly I have to scrunch it up and stash it where I can.

I remove the lower drive bay and try and see what I can do with them anyway.

I then sorted out the lower drive bay ready to add the second drive.

All done, and looking mighty fine!

Just some random shots, the Titan Fenrir, and a shot of my 5870.


The Corsair 650D was released in March, but due to holidays, Car MOT/Service and other bloody things spending my money, it meant that I had to sadly gaze loving at it without actually buying it.
Fast forward a few months, and cash is available to spend, huzzah! Its not really a dilema, but I have a mate going to buy the guts (Board, CPU, RAM) of my PC above, meaning that along with a couple hundred quid this and next month, I should be able to get my Sandy Bridge up and running.......
So the following is my list of parts.
Motherboard
Asus Sabretoth P67 £156
Asus P8P67 £110
Gigabyte UD4 £140
Gigabyte Z68 £145
CPU
i5-2500K £156 (till 18th May with Free Operation Flashpoint: Red River)
Heatsink
Dark Rock CPU Fan £35
RAM
4Gb Vengamce Blue RAM £40
Case
Corsair 650D Case £140
Add another £55 for the balance of my cabling - got some of these already.
Plan for this month - probably CPU and heatsink. CPU as I want to take advantage of the free Flashpoint game, which I would buy anyway, meaning an effective £15-20 saving. Thanks to Miss Chief? I think for the heads up on that one.
Next Month, the balance, but probably minus the case, depending on what cash I have spare, and helped along by the fact that I will earn on my own bits to fund these. It may work out just right actually.....
Only 4Gb of RAM as I only have 32bit Windows 7. Not seen enough to say that 8Gb is MASSIVELY better yet anyway, and it would only add another £120 to the budget (£80 for the OS and another £40 for the extra 4Gb RAM)
Huzzah for upgrades!
=============================================
Carried forward from Existing build
XFX 5870 GPU
Coolermaster M620 PSU
Sony SATA DVD Writer
2 x Samsung Spinpoints 1TB
=============================================
Purchases
May: Intel i5-2500k CPU (£155 with free Operation Flashpoint: Red River)
May: Corsair 650D Case (£120)
June: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 Motherboard (£150)
June: Agilty 3 SSD (£95)
June: Dark Rock Advanced Heatsink (£40)
June: Corsair Vengance RAM (£38)
June: Thermal Paste and SATA3 cable (£6)
June: Windows 7 64 Bit (£40)
June: White Braided Cables (£23)
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