Spec my bro, dont let him buy pre-built

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My brothers motherboard has blown with capacitors leaking goo so he needs a new system.

His wife is eyeing up systems from C*r*y's and the likes with dual core cpu & nice flat screen lcd etc. at around £600 please spec me so I can convince them not to do it :D

I am pretty out of touch with hardware at the moment but I am pretty good at building sytems.

Want to use use as much as possible from his old system i.e. case, IDE hard drives, DVD-RW.

He will basically just need Motherboard (supporting IDE), CPU, memory & graphics card as he has been using onboard VGA & 22" LCD monitor.

Any recommendations gratefully received. :cool:

Thanks

NIge.
 
Internet, photo editing, Office use, autocad & some games nothing too demanding.

He was managing fine with old Athlon, 512mb & onboard graphics so pretty much anything will be better than that.
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£56.39)

Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£82.24)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
(£17.61)

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)
(£36.41)

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£182.11)

i havn;t added up to see what that comes to, but that seems a good setup, the only thing i'm not sure about is the RAM, and whether that's the best 8800GT

if he doesn't play high-end games (aka crysis) then an 8600GT would be fine tbh, they're good cards and cheap as chips =]
 
Ben M said:
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£56.39)

Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£82.24)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
(£17.61)

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)
(£36.41)

BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£182.11)

i havn;t added up to see what that comes to, but that seems a good setup, the only thing i'm not sure about is the RAM, and whether that's the best 8800GT

if he doesn't play high-end games (aka crysis) then an 8600GT would be fine tbh, they're good cards and cheap as chips =]
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seeing as no mention of gaming, remove the 8800GT and get like mabye this.. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-058-OK&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=912


heres good value for the money.

pcspec556699hu4.jpg


you can upgrade to a q6600 and a 8800GT, or GTS or GTX in the future if you need to game at nice settings
 
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Good spec above apart from the case and mobo being a bit overkill.

Corsair 2GB DDR2 Value Select PC2-5300C5 Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) (VS2GBKIT667D2) £22.99
(£27.01) £22.99
(£27.01)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
Asus Vintage V3-P5945GC Barebones System - Intel Core 2 Duo (LGA775) £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
OcUK ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Sub Total : £155.96

Total : £193.77

That should fit in with what you require, mind it only has 1 IDE port so only two IDE devices can be used.

If you want to spend more you could change the processor for a better one, put better graphics in and a new hard drive.
 
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8600GT all the way then, mine plays bioshock on maxxed settings, in my pentium D 3.4ghz, fabulous card.
 
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