£700 - Spec me a system

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As per title - mate wants a new system building and I'm out of touch with stuff at the moment.

• Must have a decent sound card
• Onboard GFX will be fine.
• 19 or 20" Monitor
• Vista

Apart from that anything goes

 

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Not going to be used for games.

Monitor - Hes not after anything flashy, decent looking budget models would suffice.

 

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Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160HJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
Arctic Cooling T1 Pro Case (500W PSU)
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series
Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard - OEM
Viewsonic VG2021m 20" LCD Monitor - Black
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk
Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail

£743.03 inc. Delivery (£15)

Liking the look of this one

As I said - I'm out of touch with stuff at the CPUs and MOBO's at the moment - other stuff I can work around the budget - Just need pointing in the right direction for these two parts.

Case etc I'll get him to choose.

GFX card is NOT needed - so there is no point speccing a system with a £200 GFX card - its plain overkill guys! Onboard will more than do the job here.

Vista Basic also seems pointless

 

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The reason it is so expensive is the Vista Premium.

I would advise you to get upto £800 and add a cheapish graphics card, it is needed IMO.

What GFX would you recommend then?

 

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I would say an X1950 Pro, but if he does not game that may be overkill.

A 7600GS would be alright, or even a 7300.

Id get something like a 7600 GS to have something in there atleast.

will bare that in mind. I'll ask him if he can increase the budget a bit.

 

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Don't ask.

Tell him.

Not my money