£400 Budget - Worth Upgrading

Well decided to go for the AMD :D

Asus GeForce GTX 460 1024MB DirectCU GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with HAWX2 PC-Game £136.16

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £99.99

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £56.16

Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £49.99

Akasa Freedom Xone Case - Black £34.03

OCZ StealthXStream 2 500W Power Supply £26.37

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

£93.85 over budget

Can't wait to put it all together, thanks again for the help Stulid & Cookeh, really appreciated
 
Just a follow up, I assume the CPU comes with those standard AMD heatsinks?

Are these tidy enough or should I have bought something like:
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler

Thanks
 
delta99 said:
Just a follow up, I assume the CPU comes with those standard AMD heatsinks?

Are these tidy enough or should I have bought something like:
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler

Thanks
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It does, but you can't really overclock it much with the standard cooler.

So yeah, should have bought an aftermarket cooler.

Sorry for neglecting that in the specs!

Freezer 7 Pro Rev2 is a good cooler for the money and should take you up to around 3.8GHz without massive temps.
 
delta99 said:
Well decided to go for the AMD :D

Asus GeForce GTX 460 1024MB DirectCU GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with HAWX2 PC-Game £136.16

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £99.99

Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £56.16

Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £49.99

Akasa Freedom Xone Case - Black £34.03

OCZ StealthXStream 2 500W Power Supply £26.37

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

£93.85 over budget
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What?! The parts you listed add up to £402.70 - where's the over budget?
 
Thanks Stulid! Suppose I'll wait a few months and get it, can't really afford much more. Cheers pal

Cookeh said:
What?! The parts you listed add up to £402.70 - where's the over budget?
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Excluding vat those prices are mate

£402.70 + £70.47 VAT + £10 Delivery = £483.17

:)

Well something like that lol
 
delta99 said:
Thanks Stulid! Suppose I'll wait a few months and get it, can't really afford much more. Cheers pal



Excluding vat those prices are mate

£402.70 + £70.47 VAT + £10 Delivery = £483.17

:)

Well something like that lol
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Ah right, I bricked it there :D

So where's the build log? :p
 
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