New PC Spec for £1k

I thought I might celebrate my shiny new connection with a shiny new PC.

It seems to cost "about a thousand" as it did 10 years ago when i bought an XP2100 system


CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.3Ghz
CPU Cooler: Xigmatek Prime SD1484
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX
RAM: 8GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: Corsair 180GB Force3 SSD S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 4x Blu-Ray ROM S-ATA
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Speakers: Creative Inspire T10
Monitors: LG 21.5" E2242C-BN LED
Case: NEW! Xigmatek Asgard Pro
PSU: 700W Xigmatek
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Warranty

For medium spec gaming and to last a few years....

In reply to a post by TheBaron:

I thought I might celebrate my shiny new connection with a shiny new PC.

It seems to cost "about a thousand" as it did 10 years ago when i bought an XP2100 system


CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.3Ghz
CPU Cooler: Xigmatek Prime SD1484
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX
RAM: 8GB Corsair 1600mhz Vengeance (2x4GB)
Hard Drive: Corsair 180GB Force3 SSD S-ATAIII 6.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 4x Blu-Ray ROM S-ATA
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 1GB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Speakers: Creative Inspire T10
Monitors: LG 21.5" E2242C-BN LED
Case: NEW! Xigmatek Asgard Pro
PSU: 700W Xigmatek
Warranty: 3 Year Platinum Warranty

For medium spec gaming and to last a few years....

Personally if spending 1k I would want an i7 for that price & I'm sure that's very possible within the budget.

Looks a good machine though!

Edited by ukhardy07 (Wed 01-Aug-12 17:20:44)

That's not a lot of permanent storage - I'd have a smaller SSD to hold the OS and a couple of disks for data. SSDs are still relatively expensive and have wear problems meaning I wouldn't want to rely on one for valuable data. It can take a bit of messing around to direct downloads, email containers, etc to a non-C drive (assuming you're using Windows and are doing something other than play games on it). I guess you're using the keyboard/mouse from an old PC, anything else you can salvage (maybe not disks, I had no end of trouble myself and I think the little blighters have crawled into a corner to sulk anyway!). Are you self building or buying in? I found Chillblast the most helpful people recently - for a very different spec.

UK and Andy thanks for comments

Bearing in mind I've included screen and speakers

i7 would push price up to just under £1,200 with everything else about the same, hmmm, where does it end ?

I should have said I have a big NAS drive on the network so the SSD is just for Windows and installed programs...