First Build

[shaunw50]

Approximate Purchase Date: Next few weeks

Budget Range: £0.00 - £500.00 or

System Usage from Most to Least Important: Gaming, Surfing the web.

Are you buying a monitor: No

Do you need to buy OS: No

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: No real preference

Location: United Kingdom

Parts Preferences: No real preference

Overclocking: Yes, in the future

SLI or Crossfire: No

Your Monitor Resolution: 1920x1080

Already have Hard drive, CD Rom and power supply.

Be playing games from Guild Wars 2 to Battlefield 3.

 

[Thomas Creel]

What is the wattage on your power supply?

 

[shaunw50]

What is the wattage on your power supply?

750watts..

 

[Thomas Creel]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£90.68 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G41 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£63.32 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: AMD Entertainment Edition 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£12.49 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: AMD Entertainment Edition 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£12.49 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card (£288.80 @ Amazon UK) This cards box looks amazing
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.18 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £498.96
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

Any questions just ask.

 

[shaunw50]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz Dual-Core Processor (£90.68 @ Amazon UK)
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G41 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard (£63.32 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: AMD Entertainment Edition 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£12.49 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: AMD Entertainment Edition 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (£12.49 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 3GB Video Card (£288.80 @ Amazon UK) This cards box looks amazing
Case: NZXT Source 210 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case (£31.18 @ Scan.co.uk)
Total: £498.96
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)

Thanks for your response, I'm looking to get a SSD as the boot drive as well. Also I think maybe could go cheaper on the graphics card? A gpu that still plays games at max though, also what about an intel i5 3570 ivy bridge?

Any questions just ask.

 

[Thomas Creel]

The processor doesn't have as big an impact as the graphics card does in gaming, and almost all games only utilize two cores of the processor anyways.

You can find a cheaper graphics card, anything from 7850-7970 ghz edition all play games very well at high specs.