Thinking of doing my first new build. I'm not into gaming, but want a resonably fast CPU (3GHz) and 2GBs of RAM. Could someone please offer suggestions for a full system setup. My budget will be around £500. Many thanks, David.
Case: Coolermaster Cavalier 3 CAV-T03 Black midi tower case NO PSU - CAV-T03-UK-GP - www.microdirect.co.uk, MotherBoard: MSI K9N SLI Platinum AM2 Skt940 nForce 570SLI PCIe +SATA RAID +Gigabit LAN +7.1 ch.audio Firewire ATX - K9N SLI PLATINUM - www.microdirect.co.uk, CPU: AMD CPU AM2 Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ Retail Box inc Fan Socket AM2 (3yr Manufacturer's Warranty) - ADX6000CZBOX - www.microdirect.co.uk, RAM: OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1024) Vista Upgrade Edition DDR2 PC2-6400 800MHz 5-5-5-15 Copper Mirrored XTC Heatspreader - OCZ2VU8002GK - www.microdirect.co.uk, HDD: 500GB Seagate Barracuda® SATA II 300 Hard Disk Drive 7200rpm 16MB cache (Manufacturer's 5yr Warranty) - ST3500641AS - www.microdirect.co.uk, DVD-RW: NEC Optiarc AD-7170S-0B SATA Black 18x DVD ±RW/RAM DL oem Multiwriter - AD-7170S-0B - www.microdirect.co.uk, Total: £366.92 incl VAT (+ delivery) I have lost touch with graphics cards, i have no idea what I'm looking at (and if its worth spending another £x to get the one up etc) so i will leave it to someone else. you wanted a 3GHz CPU? how about a CPU with 2 x 3GHz core's You also need to pick out a PSU, microdirect don't have any HIPER psu's (I'm very impressed with my modular one, its completely silent!) MAKE SURE YOU CHECK EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE SUGGESTED, I ONLY FLEW THROUGH MICRODIRECT QUICKLY! (using the filters to find products that will do the job) [OT] the links are green as hwf re-writes them to affiliate links, aka hwf gets a percentage of the total sale [/OT]
Thank you very much for taking the time to look things up - it is much appreciated! That sounds a very good setup, with which I would be more than happy.
No problem but you might want to consider a different motherboard, its the one i have (and i'm very very happy with it) but there still charging what i paid for it (sometime last year i think), also make sure your PSU has plenty of sata connectors (HDD & DVD-RW drive are SATA)
instead of using AMD trying using duo 2 core instead, its a little bit more pricy but the profromance is so much better as ive also been looking at processors lately. Look at tomshardware for reviews and comparsions
I would use AMD over Intel any time, especially with several recently surfacing issue's with some of intel's chips that could lead to an exploit (and other issue's like ignoring the DOE flag (Do Not Execute) and not being strictly intel compatible).
here is what you want. p4 805 D 2.66 dual core processor,aprox $80CDN ASUS - P5LD2-VM motherboard video onboard,10/100/1000 ethernet, 5.1 surround sound. (can put pci express video in later) $80CDN 2 x 512meg DDR2 667 ram, $80CDN a must is 320gig SEAGATE Barracuda SATA drive 3.0gig a sec make sure you get the SATA 3-4 gig a sec drive $80CDN get a good heavy duty power supply for your case or a case/powersupply combo. varies this computer will be very cheap and fast about $350 - $400 dollars built and ready to go. youll get all you need with options to upgrade greatly if wanted. ILL BUILD THIS FOR YOU and INSTALL EVERYTHING for $500.00 delivered with XP PRO sp3 installed THIS SYTEM KICKS ASS RUNNING WINDOWS VISTA
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And besides, why would DavidNW want value for his dollar when is currency is £'s? also, windows XP SP3 has not been officially released yet, its only been released to a small number of testers. come again? your going to charge $500 for a computer with windows XP "sp3" and then tell us it kicks ass running vista.... are you some kind of scam artist?
