£600 budget

NoobieOCer · 1 Dec 2007 at 17:51

hi my friend wants to build a new pc and he got a budget of £600 hes got monitor, speakers keyboard and mouse.

he wants the Q6600 Go Cpu in it

he will be using it for gamming

Trusty · 1 Dec 2007 at 18:20

Maybe something like this, GT and Q6600 in there. So it will be v.good!

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz
(£160.96)

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£76.36)

Point of View GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
(£182.11)

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series
(£35.24)

Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
(£30.54)

Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU
(£72.84)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (
(£45.81)

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

Sub Total : £528.92
Total : £634.35

semi-pro waster · 1 Dec 2007 at 18:55

The above looks good to me, only change perhaps is if the budget is very important then you could buy the retail CPU for a couple of pounds more and do away with the Scythe but accept you won't be able to overclock as far.

NoobieOCer · 1 Dec 2007 at 19:21

Sirrel Squirrel · 1 Dec 2007 at 19:26

Thermaltake said:
Maybe something like this, GT and Q6600 in there. So it will be v.good!

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz
(£160.96)

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£76.36)

Point of View GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
(£182.11)

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series
(£35.24)

Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
(£30.54)

Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU
(£72.84)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (
(£45.81)

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

Sub Total : £528.92
Total : £634.35

I'd go with that, I have a similar spec and it runs brilliantly.

Got the cpu sitting happily at 3ghz at only 40 degrees so I'm sure I could push it harder.

cuppy tea · 1 Dec 2007 at 20:23

For gaming I think he'd be best off going for a e2180 rather than a quad as they get the same performance in games I think.