£500 PC advice

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Hi,

My friend is considering buying a PC based on the following specification. His budget is £500.

Intel core 2 duo E2180
Asus P5K-VM Micro ATX motherboard
2gb corsair ddr2 xms2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1gb)
BFG geforce 8600 GT OC 256mb
Western digital caviar SE16 320Gb hard disk
Creative sound blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 sound card
Antec NSK1300 ATX cube case with 300W PSU
No monitor required.

I was wondering what the overclockers forum thought of this, and if there were any other suggestions. My friends primary purpose for the PC is general gaming and internet. One of the games he wants to play however is Supreme Commander.

Thanks for any assistance. :)
 
The 8600 is an awful card. I would go for the Ati X1950, it will far outperform it.

Also i would use a 7200.10 Seagate barracuda. They're currently the fastest HDD's at 7200rpm.

The case is atx and the mobo is Micro-atx...

2 minutes i'll spec a pc up


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If there is a definite £500 limit then take off 2gb of ram ;) as there is 4gb there

OR if your friend has a decent PSU already, add a Tuniq Tower and clock the nuts off of the CPU.
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Not bad :p. id say if there is a definit 500 budget get a Lian Li pc7 case instead. its 20 quid cheaper, but you gota buy a 9 quid bezzel to make the optical drive colours match. So tahts just under 500 quid then :)

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TBH, your to slow crofty. that took 6 minutes. You said 2!
 
Cr0fty said:
The 8600 is an awful card. I would go for the Ati X1950, it will far outperform it.

Also i would use a 7200.10 Seagate barracuda. They're currently the fastest HDD's at 7200rpm.

The case is atx and the mobo is Micro-atx...

2 minutes i'll spec a pc up


EDIT:
If there is a definite £500 limit then take off 2gb of ram ;) as there is 4gb there

OR if your friend has a decent PSU already, add a Tuniq Tower and clock the nuts off of the CPU.
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Cr0fty said:
Excellent. Thanks for the basket. He is willing to stretch his budget to £550. He has no PSU and would use the one in the case.
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A CPU cooler, and some thermal paste. And the E2180 rather then '60.

:)Or you could just get a soundcard.But i would go for the above
 
Cr0fty said:
A CPU cooler, and some thermal paste. And the E2180 rather then '60.

:)Or you could just get a soundcard.But i would go for the above
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Thanks, I was tempted to put the E2180 in as the benchmarks put it up with the larger e4400 chips.

I was tempted to get a creative soundcard but I don't think he will be using his PC with any decent speakers so it wont matter if he uses the onboard sound hardware.
 
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