Case Antec P180 EU Aluminium Super Miditower ebuyer.com - Cases PSUs Barebones » Cases » *Midi Tower Cases » Product details PSU Antec NEO HE500GB 500W Modular PSU With 80mm Low Speed/noise Fan 18db ebuyer.com - Cases PSUs Barebones » Power Supplies » Antec » Product details Processor, Mainboard and RAM Bundle: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6GHz Socket AM2 2MB, BOXED w/fan MSI K9N NEO-F, nForce 550, Socket-AM2, SATAII, DDR2, GbLAN, ATX, PCI-Ex16 Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 2048MB CL5 Kit w/two matched CM2X1024A-6400 Dimm's Komplett.co.uk - Upgrade Kit AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+, Mainboard, 2048MB, PCI-Express Graphics Card Asus Nvidia 7600GT 256MB DDR3 TV out DVI PCI-E ebuyer.com - Graphics Cards » Graphics Cards Nvidia » nVIDIA GeForce 7 Series » Product details Hard Drive 500 GB Seagate Barracuda® SATA II 300 Hard Disk Drive 7200rpm 16MB cache http://microdirect.co.uk/(11059)500-GB-Sea...I-300-Hard.aspx That will cost exactly £604.77 I'm using my DVDRW from my old machine so don't need one of those. How will this new machine run? Can you suggest any improvements that won't bump up the price. Thanks
Just two things. That case is a good one, but just a tad small. I've read reviews of it being quite cramped when building. You might look at something like the Cooler Master Centurion 5 instead. It's a little cheaper, not quite as sturdy but still a very solid case and take what you save on it and give both your Graphix card and your PSU a bump up. The card is a little small by todays standards and the PSU has very low amps on the 3 and 5V rails. If you read the sticky in the PSU section here you'll find some good guide lines on what you need. -Crom
