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[PTG]shogun

[PTG]shogun

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I'm helping my mate on build for a new PC with a budget of around £400.
He is keeping his old HDD but needs a small (250 or so) one to go in the old PC as it is going to other people after.

Wondered if anyone had any suggestions or alike?
easily upgradeable would be benificial.

Ta
:D
 
Sorry I should have said this in the post :s
No, he doesn't need an OS and he definitly doesn't need keyboard and mouse.
Whilst a monitor will be required it isn't included in the build price and he will look into that seperatly.
There will be gaming, esp. with GW2 out and all lol
 
 
wow, I compleatly missed those sandybridge pentiums, I thought they stoped that line and had changed to i series :s
By the looks of it the cpu can be switched out with a quad i5/i7 etc. (as they have the same sockets) at a later date when wanted, and another gfx card can be added as well.
 
Imagine the Pentiums as slower clocked i3's without the HT ;)
And yes you can stick an Ivy i5 in there later without any worries which is why I suggested the Z77 board.

@Idleman:
I believe (but could easily be wrong) he wants to use it as a hot swap drive? So it won't need to be bigger than 250GB like he already said and WD I believe are more reliable, that HDD also has 3 year warranty which is brilliant compared to the 1 yr warranty on that 500GB.
 
Unfortuneatly you are wrong mate :s
He just wanted a really cheap HDD and suggested 250GB, and I havn't brought one smaller than 1TB for over 5 years now lol. Infact the last HDD I brought is now x2 the price lol
I didn't even procces the fact that there is little price difference in small drives.
My bad :D

Also I assume with a light bit of OC'ing you can get a bit more from the G620?
Looking at the benchmarks actually it's better than my Q6600!
 
Bacon? said:
Imagine the Pentiums as slower clocked i3's without the HT ;)
And yes you can stick an Ivy i5 in there later without any worries which is why I suggested the Z77 board.

@Idleman:
I believe (but could easily be wrong) he wants to use it as a hot swap drive? So it won't need to be bigger than 250GB like he already said and WD I believe are more reliable, that HDD also has 3 year warranty which is brilliant compared to the 1 yr warranty on that 500GB.
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He is keeping his old HDD but needs a small (250 or so) one to go in the old PC as it is going to other people after
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It`s just a replacement. You`re getting as bad me.:D
 
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