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Hi Guys,
Another newbie embarking on his first PC build mission (well my friend will be building it, I'm just ordering parts).
Basically I want this system to last years without any kind of upgrade etc. It needs to be fairly silent as I tend to keep machines on through the night and the main uses for it will be watching movies/tv shows, Internet browsing and the odd game which will only likely be Football Manager.
In terms of what I roughly would like IF possible... the i7 processor (might be a bit overkill and could possibly have the quad core instead?), about 2-4GB of RAM (DD3 is the newest I think), good hard drive (1TB/1.5TB), standard dvd writer, etc. I don't know much about PSU, cooling, etc. For the sound I would prefer to go with ASUS Xonar over Sound Blaster - will be listening to a lot of music through very good speakers so this will make a difference.. I'm not sure how important the graphics card is considering I will only be watching movies and things (link to tft hd) and rarely any gaming.. guess you could get a very decent one for my needs between £30-50?
If anyone could spec something for me based on that I would really appreciate it? Ideally I am going to buy my monitor seperate so for this I don't really want to go above £750-800 if I can help it... anything well below that would be brilliant!
Thanks!
Another newbie embarking on his first PC build mission (well my friend will be building it, I'm just ordering parts).
Basically I want this system to last years without any kind of upgrade etc. It needs to be fairly silent as I tend to keep machines on through the night and the main uses for it will be watching movies/tv shows, Internet browsing and the odd game which will only likely be Football Manager.
In terms of what I roughly would like IF possible... the i7 processor (might be a bit overkill and could possibly have the quad core instead?), about 2-4GB of RAM (DD3 is the newest I think), good hard drive (1TB/1.5TB), standard dvd writer, etc. I don't know much about PSU, cooling, etc. For the sound I would prefer to go with ASUS Xonar over Sound Blaster - will be listening to a lot of music through very good speakers so this will make a difference.. I'm not sure how important the graphics card is considering I will only be watching movies and things (link to tft hd) and rarely any gaming.. guess you could get a very decent one for my needs between £30-50?
If anyone could spec something for me based on that I would really appreciate it? Ideally I am going to buy my monitor seperate so for this I don't really want to go above £750-800 if I can help it... anything well below that would be brilliant!
Thanks!
