£500 Media/Gaming PC

crimson101

crimson101

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:pHey im looking to build a kinda all rounder Multi Media PC, mostly for HD films and encoding with a strict 500 budget:cool: . Just need the tower cause i got Win 7 64 Bit, 27 Inch Monitor (1080), speakers, mouse/keyboard etc...
Im a bit rusty aint done this for a while but i know overclocking and was looking at:
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T - CPU
Corsair XMS3 6GB DDR3 - Ram (On offer)
Antec...(Something) - Case

Sorry for not suggesting much, looking at the site as im posting lol.
Thanks for any help:D
 
Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Antec Fusion Remote HTPC Case - Black £135.98
(£115.73) £135.98
(£115.73)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £111.61
(£94.99) £111.61
(£94.99)
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £69.98
(£59.56) £69.98
(£59.56)
Antec High Current Gamer 400W Power Supply £48.99
(£41.69) £48.99
(£41.69)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £42.99
(£36.59) £42.99
(£36.59)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £11.74
(£9.99) £11.74
(£9.99)
Sub Total : £392.58
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £70.76
Total : £475.09
 
Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £117.49
(£99.99) £117.49
(£99.99)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £111.61
(£94.99) £111.61
(£94.99)
MSI 870-C45 AMD 770 Chipset (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £55.32
(£47.08) £55.32
(£47.08)
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £44.99
(£38.29) £44.99
(£38.29)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £42.99
(£36.59) £42.99
(£36.59)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Silverstone SST-PS03B Precision Midi Tower Case - Black £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.98
(£11.90) £13.98
(£11.90)
Sub Total : £396.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £71.51
Total : £480.16

Included a really fast graphics card as you said its also a "gaming" system.
 
nice, thanks for the replys :) gettin my head around things, would the six core AMD be worth the extra money or not in your opinion?
P.S. dont need a dvd drive cause i got a few lying around and also would probs buy a hd one at a later date
 
crimson101 said:
nice, thanks for the replys :) gettin my head around things, would the six core AMD be worth the extra money or not in your opinion?
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For gaming a quad core 955BE is faster, but if your doing a bit of both tasks(video editing/gaming) then a 1055T is still capable of good gaming.

so without a dvd drive,

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1055T 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £149.99
(£127.65) £149.99
(£127.65)
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £117.49
(£99.99) £117.49
(£99.99)
MSI 870-C45 AMD 770 Chipset (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £55.32
(£47.08) £55.32
(£47.08)
BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W Power Supply £44.99
(£38.29) £44.99
(£38.29)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £42.99
(£36.59) £42.99
(£36.59)
Silverstone SST-PS03B Precision Midi Tower Case - Black £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
Sub Total : £417.66
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £75.15
Total : £504.56

Heres a cpu comparison - http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/88?vs=147 just depends how much "media" stuff you do?
 
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no, no games and very few programs can use the 5th and 6th cores in a 6 core cpu, so you will be pretty much wasting money
 
thanks for the advice, been a great bit of knowledge you shared with me - i do a fair amount of encoding currently for my girlfriend cause she is at uni doing animation and full hd files take forever currently which is why i was thinkin of the 6 core over quad. As for media it will be a fair few hd films ill be watching and a few games such as crysis etc..
 
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crimson101 said:
thanks for the advice, been a great bit of knowlegde you shared with me - i do a fair amount of encoding currently for my girlfriend cause she is at uni doing animation and full hd files take forever currently which is why i was thinkin of the 6 core over quad.
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Sounds like you actually have a need for a hex core then.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/phenom-ii-x6-1090t_8.html good comparison that includes a 965BE quad core.

Overclock it to 4GHZ - http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-phenom-ii-x6-1055t-overclocking_8.html#sect0
 
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Thanks Bud your last build suggestion was definatly something im gonna take a look into, just one last question-if i was looking at overclocking would you suggest a different PSU/CPU Cooler?
 
crimson101 said:
Thanks Bud your last build suggestion was definatly something im gonna take a look into, just one last question-if i was looking at overclocking would you suggest a different PSU/CPU Cooler?
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The PSU is more than enough for almost anything out there, apart from SLI GTX470/460/570/580's etc, but all single graphic cards and cpu setups etc are good to go.

This is the cables of that Bequiet psu.
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The stock cooler supplied will allow some low overclocking(an extra 300-400mhz) but for more then a good heatsink would be good.
 
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ive never took overclocking too far, id probs just up it to 3.5ghz and keep it stable instead of going up to 4ghz etc and buying extra cooling-super advice bud carnt thank you enough :)
 
Get a heatsink later on, that Silverstone case has a square cut out in the motherboard tray, so installing one of those clamp through jobbies will be easy and wont require the motherboard to be removed.
 
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