£400 Tower

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Just wondering if it can be done.

A £400 pc capable of playing Cod4 maxed out. (1440x900)

For a friend's Christmas list, his only requirements are the above!

I would spec him myself, however i built my PC last christmas, so am a little out!

Any contributions would be appreciated in the way of specs :)
 
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Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £94.99
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Asus P5QL Pro Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £61.99
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Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £56.99
(£66.96) £56.99
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Corsair VX 450W ATX PSU (CMPSU-450VXUK) £41.99
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OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) £34.99
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Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £32.99
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Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
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Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £15.99
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possible changes

drop to a p31 based MB, i chose p43 as some p35/p31 MBs are not 45nm ready out of the box, a bios update is required

if temps and noise arnt really too much of an issue drop the cpu cooler

if possible maybe a more powerful GPU and or a more powerful PSU for future upgrades

needs

case required (his PC, his choice)
 


EDIT: Alternative GFX is ATI's HD 3850 or 4670 but above seems to perform better in some games including CoD 4
 
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Value for money is amazing now.... the above spec is mint, thank you :D

And thank you Jak371 for your contribution, however I believe the budget will be fairly strict :)
 
I'd go with this personally, £420 delivered, if you can't manage the extra £20 then drop the GPU down to the 9600GT just mentioned but its well worth the extra cash.

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That motherboard and cooler is more than enough to push that E5200 to ~3.6ghz and you benefit from 4 GB which is becoming increasingly important. That PSU is more than enough for this rig, as it has 27A on its 12V rail which is more than many brand name 460w PSUs offer.
 
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ukbrainstew said:
I'd go with this personally, £420 delivered, if you can't manage the extra £20 then drop the GPU down to the 9600GT just mentioned but its well worth the extra cash.

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That motherboard and cooler is more than enough to push that E5200 to ~3.6ghz and you benefit from 4 GB which is becoming increasingly important. That PSU is more than enough for this rig, as it has 27A on its 12V rail which is more than any brand name 460w PSUs offer.
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I'm looking for a system for myself and like the sound of this one only thing i would change would be the tower case to the "Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower - Black"

would this work? sorry i'm no good with all this computer stuff :p oh and sorry for the hijack :D
 
hp7909 said:
@ OP's res the GSO seems to perform (slightly) better. See CoD 4 benchmark here.
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Well that's just one game with a technologically dated engine, Unreal Tournament3 and Quake 4 for example perform better on the 9600GT and by a bigger margin. Still, I'd actually take neither of them on a budget, the 4670 would be my pick, but as stated before, the 9800GT is worth the cash if you can stretch to it.

L33-W8TSON that'd be fine but you then have to buy a seperate PSU.
 
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