£350 - 400 tower [spec advice?]

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Hi, I've heard this is a great place for help on PC building. So if anyone has any spare time, could you recommend me a good value spec for a tower geared towards gaming, net browsing and media(watching DVDs, streams etc)?

I already have monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers and an OS, so it would just be the tower.

Any help would be much appreciated, cheers.

P.S: I'm not sure if this matters, but the monitor im using and would like to carry on using is an old dell CRT, with a max refresh rate of 85. (I brought this up as I'm not sure if this monitor could handle advanced graphics cards? correct me if im wrong!)
 
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No issue with the monitor, the card should come with a DVI-->VGA converter so you'll be able to just plug it in :) Above rig will rip through most games, especially if you overclock the proccy. It'll do 3.2GHz no problems, most likely much more.

Edit: Forgot DVD drive, just add any old one for £15 onto that.
 
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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
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XFX Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (HD-485X-YDFC) £95.99
(£110.39) £95.99
(£110.39)
MB-143-AB_60.jpg
Abit IP35 Pro XE Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £56.99
(£65.54) £56.99
(£65.54)
CP-251-IN_60.jpg
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £53.99
(£62.09) £53.99
(£62.09)
CA-009-SS_60.jpg
Seasonic Silverpower 400W Power Supply £39.99
(£45.99) £39.99
(£45.99)
HD-057-SA_60.jpg
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £34.99
(£40.24) £34.99
(£40.24)
MY-086-OC_60.jpg
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £33.99
(£39.09) £33.99
(£39.09)
CA-036-AS_60.jpg
Asus TA-D31 Midi-ATX Case - Black (No PSU) £22.99
(£26.44) £22.99
(£26.44)
CD-090-LG_60.jpg
LG GH22NS40 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.09) £13.99
(£16.09) Sub Total : £352.92 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL Select Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : Free VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £54.59 Total : £408.50
 
Kennysevenfold said:
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
GX-117-XF_60.jpg
XFX Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (HD-485X-YDFC) £95.99
(£110.39) £95.99
(£110.39)
MB-143-AB_60.jpg
Abit IP35 Pro XE Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £56.99
(£65.54) £56.99
(£65.54)
CP-251-IN_60.jpg
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £53.99
(£62.09) £53.99
(£62.09)
CA-009-SS_60.jpg
Seasonic Silverpower 400W Power Supply £39.99
(£45.99) £39.99
(£45.99)
HD-057-SA_60.jpg
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £34.99
(£40.24) £34.99
(£40.24)
MY-086-OC_60.jpg
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £33.99
(£39.09) £33.99
(£39.09)
CA-036-AS_60.jpg
Asus TA-D31 Midi-ATX Case - Black (No PSU) £22.99
(£26.44) £22.99
(£26.44)
CD-090-LG_60.jpg
LG GH22NS40 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.09) £13.99
(£16.09) Sub Total : £352.92 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DHL Select Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : Free VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £54.59 Total : £408.50
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Kenny, before I order all these parts, are you sure there isn't anything thats missing? or a peice of hardware that you might not be too sure about? Also, would you recommend OC building it(if available) then delivering or me having ago myself(with little experience)? Thanks a lot Ken!
 
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Kennysevenfold said:
personally i would save the money and build it yourself, very easy nowadays, and with a little help from some videos from youtube on how to/walkthroughs on actually doing it you cant go wrong :p plus we are always here :D

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-112-SA&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=951

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-033-OC&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=
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Thank you very much kenny, I've just ordered the two parts you recommended along with the others. I feel fairly confident about building the tower and I'll make sure to visit these forums if I'm in need of assistance.
 
Similar to a system I'm looking at building - however noticed on the Abit website that the e5200 doesn't appear on supported processor list.

Presume however from the suggestions here that the combo of the ip35 pro XE and 5200 are okay together?

Would the this week only memory - Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 X 2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX8500D2K2/4G) - be okay with this combo?
 
I doubt you will have much trouble building... following the motherboard user manual page by page will tell you exactly what to put and where or as someone said above there is plenty of guides about and ofcourse the forums...
 
Drambuie said:
Similar to a system I'm looking at building - however noticed on the Abit website that the e5200 doesn't appear on supported processor list.

Presume however from the suggestions here that the combo of the ip35 pro XE and 5200 are okay together?

Would the this week only memory - Kingston HyperX 4GB (2 X 2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX8500D2K2/4G) - be okay with this combo?
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all compatable, that cpu/mobo/ram combo :D
 
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