New system, look OK?

martink · 27 Oct 2008 at 21:25

Hi Guys,

Fancy a new PC and been looking at a few bits in the store. How's this system look? To be honest, I'll just use it for browsing, email and a bit or word. Also Have a lot of MP3s so went for a decent soundcard. Am I on the right track, all of the bits look OK and will the work together? Know nothing about PSUs so could do with a recommendation?

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000 3.10GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £59.99

Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card (Low Profile Compatible) - £49.99

Abit AX-78 AMD 770 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £45.99

PNY GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - £44.99

Maxtor Diamondmax 22 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (STM3500320AS) £36.99

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £31.99

Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/AM2+/AM2/939) £31.99

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £4.99

Total £360.63

Thanks,
Martin

fobose · 27 Oct 2008 at 21:59

Graphics seems a bit OTT for email and surfing. I would get a AMD 780G chipset board and use its onboard graphics, will hapilly play 1080p content too

Also do you really need an expensive CPU cooler?

This is a good cheap cooler:

Akasa AK-965 CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)

This PSU is good:

Corsair VX 450W ATX PSU (CMPSU-450VXUK)

Slashiem · 27 Oct 2008 at 22:08

I would for sure change to a cheaper intel system.
And different hard drive because maxtors are generally dont work after a while.

I will post edit a few things in a mo.

fobose · 27 Oct 2008 at 22:10

Nothing wrong with maxtor, they are just rebadge seagates.

martink · 27 Oct 2008 at 22:17

Thanks, will probably go for a 780 board then. May well watch the odd DVD too.

Went for the dearer cooler thinking it would be quiter.

Slashiem · 27 Oct 2008 at 22:20

Your basket

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 4670 PCS 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)

Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card (Low Profile Compatible) - Retail £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)

Corsair VX 450W ATX PSU (CMPSU-450VXUK) £41.99
(£49.34) £41.99
(£49.34)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 640GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD642JJ) £41.99
(£49.34) £41.99
(£49.34)

MSI P31 Neo2-FR Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £41.99
(£49.34) £41.99
(£49.34)

Arctic Cooling Freezer XTREME CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775/AM2+/AM2/939) £31.99
(£37.59) £31.99
(£37.59)

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £31.99
(£37.59) £31.99
(£37.59) Sub Total : £339.92 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95 VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £61.23 Total : £411.10
Umm get like a 100 more posts and then you got free postage and comes just unfer 400 quid which really aint bad.

martink · 27 Oct 2008 at 22:26

Cheers!

100 more posts it's takenme six years to get 150

beefybarn · 28 Oct 2008 at 07:52

Im running a stock cooler on my 6000 in a media centre and its very quiet, you shouldnt need the other cooler unless planning to overclock.

martink · 28 Oct 2008 at 17:04

beefybarn said:
Im running a stock cooler on my 6000 in a media centre and its very quiet, you shouldnt need the other cooler unless planning to overclock.

excellent, just the kind of info I'm after

Fallen god · 28 Oct 2008 at 22:36

I would get this for the heatr sink cause more then enough poeple said the af7 prefromace better than the etreme.

Thermalright Ultima-90, its almost as good as the 120, maybe 1 degrees between them and it only cost £30 which is really good, and if you want quite you can run it with no fun and stick get nice cooling if you dont OC much, at all.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ight Ultima-90i CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775)