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Ethermaster

Ethermaster

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Hi Guys,

Im currently specing a PC for a friend at work, he is looking to spend around the £400 mark for the thing but it needs to be a good all rounder e.g internet, light gaming (SWTOR or Star Trek Online mainly), basic photo editing and watching film's (DVD is fine I think he would rather Blu-Ray tho)

He needs the base unit, keyboard and mouse as he will be using his TV as his monitor.

He will need Wi-Fi as well.

I have so far came up with this .......

YOUR BASKET
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £82.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £59.99
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £53.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020046-UK) £34.98
1 x OcUK Ultra-Slim Wirelesss Desktop Set (6311ARF) £19.99
1 x Zalman T2 ATX Mini Tower Case - Black £19.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £16.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
1 x Alpenföhn Civetta CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £11.51
Total : £437.36 (includes shipping : FREE).



Any improvements?
 
That's a toughie to spec for that price, but I think you've hit the nail on the head essentially. Especially with a SSD and HDD in there as well, the onboard graphics should carry him over on those games until he can get a dedicated in there.

:)
 
Would you need to Alpenföhn Civetta CPU Cooler with the A8? Would have thought the retail would have been enough.
 
I've used the A8K, the stock heatsink is tiny, I didn't overclock with it but for stock clocks it's fine. Easy enough to add a better heatsink later.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £82.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM £50.00
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
1 x **B Grade** BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK Compact Wireless Desktop Set (6309ARF) £19.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £16.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £441.88 (includes shipping : FREE).



A85 mobo, 2TB HDD to store his movie collection on, has double the capacity and cache of the toshiba but is an eco drive (5900rpm). Better case and the modular version of the corsair PSU
 
honosuseri said:
I've used the A8K, the stock heatsink is tiny, I didn't overclock with it but for stock clocks it's fine. Easy enough to add a better heatsink later.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Plextor M5S 128GB Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5S) £82.99
1 x AMD A8-5600K Black Edition 3.60GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor (AD560KWOHJBOX) £79.99
1 x Gigabyte F2A85X-D3H AMD A85X Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £64.99
1 x **B Grade** Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM £50.00
1 x Corsair Builder Series CX 430w Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply (CP-9020058-UK) £39.98
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2133HC11DC01) £39.95
1 x **B Grade** BitFenix Shinobi USB3.0 Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x OcUK Compact Wireless Desktop Set (6309ARF) £19.99
1 x TP-Link 300Mbps Wireless N PCI Express Adapter (TL-WN881ND) £16.99
1 x OcUK 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Total : £441.88 (includes shipping : FREE).



A85 mobo, 2TB HDD to store his movie collection on, has double the capacity and cache of the toshiba but is an eco drive (5900rpm). Better case and the modular version of the corsair PSU
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Cheers Hon, some of your spec isn't in stock tho :(
 
Yeah it happens :( You can still place the order and they will dispatch it all once in stock. I'd prefer to wait and get certain parts rather than compromise for something that's in stock.
 
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