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You don't even need to spend £200 on a CPU. £150-170 will get you a nice Intel i5. I think the consensus is that the 7850 is one of the better cards to get if your budget is under £200. It overclocks very well. Intel destroys AMD for CPUs, but it's not as clear who the winner is for GPU between ATI and Nvidia. ATI are still probably the better value.

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RipperRoo

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Original post by SMed

You don't even need to spend £200 on a CPU. £150-170 will get you a nice Intel i5. I think the consensus is that the 7850 is one of the better cards to get if your budget is under £200. It overclocks very well. Intel destroys AMD for CPUs, but it's not as clear who the winner is for GPU between ATI and Nvidia. ATI are still probably the better value.

Well I'm liking the look of this or this.

Any motherboard advice/recommendations? This seems all right and is recommended.

I'll take this over to that computer building thread actually rather than spam the **** out of this one :P.

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Original post by SMed

You don't even need to spend £200 on a CPU. £150-170 will get you a nice Intel i5. I think the consensus is that the 7850 is one of the better cards to get if your budget is under £200. It overclocks very well. Intel destroys AMD for CPUs, but it's not as clear who the winner is for GPU between ATI and Nvidia. ATI are still probably the better value.

Personally I think up to and including 7850, AMD are better value (though nvidia haven't actually released a 660 (or Ti) to fill that gap yet). Then on, go for Nvidia (the 670 is more powerful than the 7970 but is cheaper than the 7950).

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ak137

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Can I have a referal link too? :redface:

=P

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username612415

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Original post by ak137

Can I have a referal link too? :redface:

=P

Sure, PM me your email address [=

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Original post by Ape Gone Insane

I remember Lockerz which was a big thing 2 years ago. Got lured in by the awesome prizes they had on offer and ended up stuck in a cycle of inviting people to the website.

Yep same here... Though my friend did actually get a pair of £60 skullcandy headphones (okay they're skullcandy and you shouldn't touch them with a barge pole but they'd still cost £60 to buy from shops).

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username234673

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Original post by G8D

Why does Windows always look so **** on big TVs? Are they that bad quality compared to laptop screens? (ignoring obvious PPI disparity).

It's fine here. 42" panny plasma @720p (text is unreadably tiny 6' away @ 1080p).

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Might be some specific issue you're having.

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username234673

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Original post by G8D

I might set this to 720p and see.

It's not just the readability though, the colours are poor and it just looks a but poo in general.

All good here on the colour font. I have seen some TVs look awful on W7 (like one I saw in Comet the other day :teehee:

), couldn't say for sure what it is though.

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Original post by G8D

I might set this to 720p and see.

It's not just the readability though, the colours are poor and it just looks a but poo in general.

My 32" Bravia looks like crap running windows 7 (720p). Something about it, it just looks so washed out.

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Original post by hassi94

My 32" Bravia looks like crap running windows 7 (720p). Something about it, it just looks so washed out.

Are you using HDMI or VGA? I've heard sometimes TVs don't like computers coming through HDMI, and they need some tweaking to work properly.

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username234673

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Original post by hassi94

My 32" Bravia looks like crap running windows 7 (720p). Something about it, it just looks so washed out.

Surely you can fix that by calibrating colour in Control Panel\Display?

Edit: On above - I use DVI out -> HDMI in

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Original post by SMed

Are you using HDMI or VGA? I've heard sometimes TVs don't like computers coming through HDMI, and they need some tweaking to work properly.

HDMI, it could well be that I guess. I don't really mind since I barely ever hook it up.

Original post by mikeyd85

Surely you can fix that by calibrating colour in Control Panel\Display?

Edit: On above - I use DVI out -> HDMI in

Hmm it's not even just the colour, it sort of just has an 'old' look to it which I can't seem to describe. Meh, not very important for me anyway :smile:

Try VGA.

TVs that aren't full HD (720) are likely to look a bit rubbish due to the low pixel density.

And an interlaced TV (720i/1080i) will look terrible for the sheer reason that interlacing is televisual cancer. And also that all PC monitors are supposed to be progressive scan.

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