£340 Spec Me A Rig

[Mista.Gee]

I've got £340 to spend on a total new Baseunit, any ideas on what I should get?

 

[pastymuncher]

What will you be using it for?

 

[Mista.Gee]

Abit of everything really, Games like Halo 2, World in Conflict, Juiced 2, Web browsing, Downloading etc.

 

[jak731]

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST3160815AS) £30.99
(£36.41) £30.99
(£36.41)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
OcUK Value IP35 Pro Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Pioneer DVR-212DBK 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£21.14) £17.99
(£21.14)
PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950 Pro AC2 SILENT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
(£76.36)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2140 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.60GHz (800FSB) - Retail £38.99
(£45.81) £38.99
(£45.81)
Sub Total : £277.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £50.55
Total : £339.43

not sure entirely that the PSU will handle the PC

it would be nice to know waht you have atm, to see if this is really an upgrade/improvement

it will require OCing

there is plenty of room for upgrades with a better PSU.

 

[Mista.Gee]

At the moment I have nothing available. I'm using a works PC at the moment. Obviously I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse at hand though.

 

[jak731]

my spec up there will most likely not play those games at a very high res smoothly when full aa and af or the ati equivilents are on max. it however should help provide a base for you to put better hardware in as time passes.

 

[pastymuncher]

Hows this?

Samsung SpinPoint S 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD250HJ) £35.99
(£42.29)

Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £44.99(£52.86)

Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £45.99
(£54.04)

OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £23.99
(£28.19)

Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99 (£17.61)

Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU £39.99
(£46.99)

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1950 Pro AC2 SILENT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £64.99
(£76.36)

Sub Total : £270.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £49.33
Total : £331.21

Bigger hard drive, better cpu and a faster dvdrw for less. If you need an OS as well then you will have to find an extra £57. That power supply should be fine with that lot as they are quite decent psu's. Good cases too. I have a couple of those dvdrw drives and they are very good. That mobo is an excellent budget overclocker too and should easily get that E2180 past 3GHZ. You may need to buy a decent cooler for that though.