A spec me for <£750 lots of info inside!

[Deep]

Hi everybody,

I require some assistance from people who know what they are talking about!

Basically I will be buying a 32" tv for my bedroom, and I have a lot of videos, looking at about 1TB of video files and I would like to use a standard HDMI connection to connect the two. The tv will be 1080p so its just easier resolution wise.

I might play some games occasionally but very rarely so something capable but cheap would be good.

I also listen to a lot of music. So I will be ripping my cd collection into FLAC and eventually buying a DAC to join my amp that I already have so a sound card isn't needed but a decent amount of HDD space is.

This is a spec that I came up with, I'm not sure if its any good, so change away!

I would like to spend under £750 in total, inc delivery and including Windows. I thought 7 would be the best one to go for even though I have never used it.

For basic usage I doubt I will find it THAT much of a difference between Vista and 7.

Anyway, my spec

Is there anything that you would change?

Also is it possible to make it run quite cool and quiet?


Thanks very muchly



Deep!

 

[Kennysevenfold]

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £147.98
(£128.68) £147.98
(£128.68)

XFX ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £114.99
(£99.99) £114.99
(£99.99)

Asus M4A785TD-M Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £67.99
(£59.12) £67.99
(£59.12)

G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM) £67.99
(£59.12) £67.99
(£59.12)

Coolermaster Sileo 500 Silent Case - Black (NO PSU) £66.99
(£58.25) £66.99
(£58.25)

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail £65.99
(£57.38) £65.99
(£57.38)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £60.98
(£53.03) £121.96
(£106.06)

Coolermaster eXtreme Power 650W Power Supply £49.99
(£43.47) £49.99
(£43.47)

Samsung SH-S223B/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.77) £16.99
(£14.77) Sub Total : £626.84 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £11.75 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £95.79 Total : £734.38

 

[fluffmyster]

You can get an i7 rig for that money if you don't mind going for a 512Mb 4870 and antec 300 instead:

This would offer you more longevity but other options would be either a phenom II or i5 rig which would work out slightly cheaper.

 

[fluffmyster]

Also came up with an i5 system which has the GPU and case you chose. Looks very impressive for the price IMO:

 

[Deep]

Thanks guys.

Fluffmyster your second spec seems pretty good!

I have 2 HDD's which are currently doing nothing. A 500Gb and a 320Gb. I also have a WD My Book 1TB.

What i might do is take the HDD out of the my book and use the 320GB as the HDD's in the computer itself.

Then use the spare 500GB one as an external HDD, just need to buy an enclosure.

Does anybody see any problems with that? I would save myself £60 and get a fair amount of space!