Advice & Feedback on this little setup please

ScottC · 22 Apr 2007 at 22:37

Hi all, just looking for some comments and feedback on this proposed setup for a new PC, looking for something that will run smooth with okish gaming capabilties for a relatively small budget. Thanks. Also do you think it would be able to run say Oblivion at medium settings.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ AM2 2.3GHz

Asustek AM2 Via K8T890 ATX Audio Lan Dual DDR2 SATA

Crucial 1GB 200Pin SODIMM PC3200 DDR RAM Non Parity

Gigabyte GeForce 7600GS 256MB PCIE DVI Silent Pipe RoHs

Maxtor DiamondMax 21 250GB 7200RPM 8MB U1000

Midi Tower 400W - Black

NEC SONY AD-5170A 18x Black DVDRW OEM

semi-pro waster · 22 Apr 2007 at 22:42

It might be helpful if you posted the budget but this is roughly equivalent from OcUK and about as cheap as I can get it below. The graphics card is better as is the hard drive. I'm also not sure that your Ram is compatible with the motherboard, just going by the name you need DDR2 Ram but you have picked DDR Ram.

Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Liteon DVD-8900 16x DVD±RW/RAM (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.44) £13.99
(£16.44)
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £36.99
(£43.46) £36.99
(£43.46)
OcUK GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £56.99
(£66.96) £56.99
(£66.96)
Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 PC2-4200C4 Dual Channel Kit (CT2KIT6464AA53E) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Asrock ALiveSATA2-GLAN (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
(£41.11)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
Sub Total : £260.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
Vat : £47.58
Total : £319.46

ScottC · 22 Apr 2007 at 22:49

Thanks for that

Budget being I would like to keep it at or below £350. The only thing I'm a little concerned about with your suggestions is that the processor looks a little 'weak' was aiming for 2.3 - 4 ghz - other than that it looks good; better even.

Thanks for pointing out about the RAM, I'm not particularly experienced with this so I wouldn't have noticed otherwise

semi-pro waster · 22 Apr 2007 at 22:57

Ok I've changed the CPU and Ram slightly so you now have a faster CPU and the Ram should be better matched overall.

Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Liteon DVD-8900 16x DVD±RW/RAM (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.44) £13.99
(£16.44)
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £36.99
(£43.46) £36.99
(£43.46)
OcUK GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £56.99
(£66.96) £56.99
(£66.96)
Asrock ALiveSATA2-GLAN (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
(£41.11)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 PC2-5300C5 Dual Channel Kit (CT2KIT6464AA667) £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
(£41.11)
Sub Total : £287.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
Vat : £52.30
Total : £351.18

ScottC · 22 Apr 2007 at 23:07

This looks ideal, thanks for the help.

Is this everything necessary to get up and running? Minus the OS of course.

semi-pro waster · 22 Apr 2007 at 23:23

That includes everything, cables come with the motherboard, the PSU is with the case and the CPU is retail so comes with thermal paste pre-applied to the heatsink.

ScottC · 24 Apr 2007 at 23:41

Just had a thought.

Is 380W PSU going to be sufficient ??

semi-pro waster · 25 Apr 2007 at 00:11

For that system, certainly. The 7600GT isn't hugely demanding and the Antec is a good PSU. You probably don't have to worry about overclocking really as the motherboard is unlikely to allow it much so the only problem would be if you added 5 hard drives.