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Friend wants me to build him a computer. I can build them easily enough, but I suck on knowing what parts to buy.
So if anyone wants to help, his budget is £1000, he wants it for Gaming/Graphics and design stuff, and all parts must be bough from overclockers.co.uk!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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I won't be as useful as these chaps that put together whole specs for you but I find tomshardware pretty good for seeing which components give you the most bang for your buck!
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get a motherboard/processor/RAM bundle, usually they come OC already.
if he wants it for graphics as well as gaming, you can't go wrong with an i5 2500K OC to 4+ghz
or if he doesn't mind splashing a bit more, get a i7 processor. (Make sure to get the K models for OC)

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Jager said...
get a motherboard/processor/RAM bundle, usually they come OC already.
if he wants it for graphics as well as gaming, you can't go wrong with an i5 2500K OC to 4+ghz
or if he doesn't mind splashing a bit more, get a i7 processor. (Make sure to get the K models for OC)
If £1000 is his budget i think he could just go all out overkill and go for the i7
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btw, something that is always massively missed out by builder is the harddisk.
get a 10,000 RPM HD or a SSD HD. You will be first in game/on the server.
I brought a WD Raptor 10000RPM HD and I love it, loads shit so quickly.
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Anyone else jump in and help?
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Thanks, but with the SSD only being 120gb, and with no case or extra's it will go far over his budget.

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That is just a little pack, you can edit it so you can add or remove the SSD and replace it with a SATA Drive & for the case you can pick a cheep one from your local PC shop or PC World where they are doing Antec's & CoolMasters now...
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you dont need 16gb of ram thats just a waste off paper. im on 4gb ddr3 here pc boots in 20secs flat. first on svr every time.