£450 Spec Me

Soldato
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Hello All
Building a pc for a mate who is on a £450 budget.
Will be used for daily use but not much gaming but I want it to have a AMD 64 processor. He has a keyboard, mouse and monitor already so we are just talking the computer here.
Thats all really.

Thanks, Sam
 
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AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-147-AM)
£122.14

Akasa AK-860 Low Noise CPU Cooler (Socket 754 & 939) (HS-029-AK)
£5.82

Gigabyte K8NMF-9 nForce4 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-041-GI)
£49.29

PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-054-PC)
£93.94

Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB 1200JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-055-WD)
£48.12

OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK)
£49.94

Philips SPD2400GM 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Beige) - OEM (CD-007-PH)
£25.79

Arctic Cooling T2 Silentium Silent Midi Tower Case - 450W Seasonic Silent PSU (CA-001-AR)
£58.69

Total = £453.73 Including VAT

Fast CPU & added decent cooler (cheaper than retail package).
Nice sized HDD.
Good graphics considering budget.
Good case & PSU.



If really not into gaming then go for this insted ...

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£199.69

Akasa AK-860 Low Noise CPU Cooler (Socket 754 & 939) (HS-029-AK)
£5.82

Gigabyte K8NMF-9 nForce4 Micro ATX (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-041-GI)
£49.29

MSI ATI Radeon X300 256MB DDR2 Hypermemory TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-066-MS)
£35.19

Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 120GB 1200JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-055-WD)
£48.12

OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK)
£49.94

Philips SPD2400GM 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Beige) - OEM (CD-007-PH)
£25.79

Arctic Cooling T2 Silentium Silent Midi Tower Case - 450W Seasonic Silent PSU (CA-001-AR)
£58.69

Total = £472.53 Including VAT

Bit over budget but get dual core CPU, which is much better when multitasking, encoding etc.
 
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Associate
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nice spec id go for the top one, but am i right in thinking that the x300's hypermemory takes up system ram, because its 'fake' ram ?
 
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