Recomendations for a Gaming rig?

A friend from school has decided along with his 50" tv in his room and his ps3 and xbox 360! he would like a gaming PC

He is going to pay me £250 plus the cost of the parts (up to £1500 thats $2400)!!!

As you can see he is not short of money!

The only requirements he gave me were, it has to have a kickass case ( with Lights etc) and it has to be able to play hard core games!

I have some stuff in mind but would like to see if you guys come up with something similar.

He was looking at alienware pc's but i persuaded him to let me do it for him, so i do need a really good case to match the alienware, because the looks is one of the most important things for this guy!

Burrell

 

anyone?

 

This is my rig and it is lightning fast, all you need is to find a decent case (mine is a cool-master without the lights) it will come in at around $1200 with the case.

> Mainboard : Asus Rampage II Extreme
> Chipset : Intel X58
> Processor : Intel Core i7 950 @ 3066 MHz
> Physical Memory : 12288 MB (6 x 2048 DDR3-SDRAM )
> Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
> Hard Disk : SAMSUNG (1000 GB)
> Hard Disk : SAMSUNG (320 GB)
> Hard Disk : SAMSUNG (500 GB)
> Hard Disk : SAMSUNG (640 GB)
> DVD-Rom Drive : HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GH22NP20 SCSI CdRom Device
> Monitor Type : PKB VIS220WS - 21 inches
> Network Card : MV88SE614x PCIe to SATA2 controller Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
> Network Card : MV88SE614x PCIe to SATA2 controller Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
> Operating System : Windows 7 Ultimate Professional 6.01.7600 (x64)

It also has an Asus 750watt PSU

 

What i might be getting, any improvents i can make?

1. Gigabyte GeForce GTX 285 1024MB PCI-Express Graphics Card
2. Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
3. Corsair Dominator 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-14400C9 (1866MHz) Tri-Channel
4. Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ) 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) -
5. LG BH10LS30 10x BluRay-RW / 16 x DVD±RW Drive - Black (OEM)
6. Antec 1200 Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black
7. Corsair TX 750W ATX SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-750TXUK)
8. Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (0F10383)
9. Akasa AK-178-BL 12" Cold Cathode - Blue

Total £1,439.81

Burrell

 

That setup looks OK, what OS are you planning to go for? You will need a 64-bit one to be able to use the 6GB of RAM. If you use a 32-bit one it will be able to use up to around 3.5GB.

I would recommend this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173791

And I also recommend the site, I have used it many times in the past and they are great.

I have recommended Home Premium as the Ultimate edition really has very few extra features, none of which are worth the extra money in my opinion.

 

He already had os, yeah i ahve used them many time before too, they seem to be very reliable.

Burrell