£600 Rig spec... advice please

[BoB3rt]

Hey,

am Building a rig (inc monitor) for a friend at max of £600 in a cube case so need micro atx.
This seems to be the setup ad go for....

Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.53GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £74.99
(£88.11) £74.99
(£88.11)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)

Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7200S 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.44) £13.99
(£16.44)

Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2L Intel G33 (Socket 775) PCI Express DDR2 Motherboard £53.99
(£63.44) £53.99
(£63.44)

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £23.99
(£28.19) £23.99
(£28.19)

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 320GB ATA-133 8MB Cache - OEM (0A33405) £31.99
(£37.59)

NZXT Rogue Crafted Series Micro-ATX Case - Silver/Blue £82.99
(£97.51)

Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant PSU £54.99
(£64.61)

Dell Ultrasharp SP2008WFP 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black/Silver £124.99
(£146.86)

Sub Total : £501.91

(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £90.45
Total : £607.31


This pc will be used for gaming and general university stuffs for him.

Any advice or changes would be great... as i was hoping to get a better GFX card in there. he wants that 20" monitor tho and case. (pain in the butt)

Thanks

 

[Meloco]

if he's gaming and wants to play things like crysis on high, you will need an ATI4850, and overclock that cpu to 3.6ghz (which you can do nicely with a third party cpu cooler. Look at the Arctic Freezer Pro 7).

 

[BoB3rt]

ok but it not just a case of take off the HD2900GT and plonk in a 4850 coz the cost will go up

any advice what to change or spec me a rig?

 

[Slashiem]

If gaming your best off with a full tower case as with gaming if gonna create a lot of heat which most atx cases cant handle.
So i would reccomend a standard ATX case. Also by this i think you save some cash.

 

[BoB3rt]

unfortunatly he wants that case :s so i know this . You know this . but FA i can do about it.....already sed it to him.

what can i reduce?

 

[Meloco]

unfortunatly he wants that case :s so i know this . You know this . but FA i can do about it.....already sed it to him.

what can i reduce?

Not sure tbh, I would really explain to him that if he wants a decent gaming PC that he is going to have to change to a bigger case. Failing that it will be a good high-definition playing PC, or media centre . With some leight gaming.