Another "Spec Me" Thread

Tican

Tican

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Hi there,

I am looking at building a new pc.

It will be used as a Gaming PC mainly. But I will need a fair amount of space! (2x 500gb) I will have a budget of around £700, can probs go to around £800 at a push!

Ideally Core2Duo with a min of 2gb ram

I will need a screen included in this price too, but no mouse and keyboard
size of the screen is not a problem, but 17" min.


It has been a good 4 years since i built my last, infact it was when i JOINED These forums :o


Appart from that I have no clue, don't know if I am asking too much though!

Thanks in advance!
 
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That for components. No idea for screen :rolleyes:
 
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It can be done, this ought to be suitable as I think I've included everything asked for. :)

Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£21.14) £17.99
(£21.14)
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU £58.99
(£69.31) £58.99
(£69.31)
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £59.99
(£70.49) £119.98
(£140.98)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC) £53.99
(£63.44) £53.99
(£63.44)
OcUK Value Hanns-G HW191D 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Silver £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £144.99
(£170.36) £144.99
(£170.36)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
Sub Total : £655.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.95
Vat : £117.05
Total : £785.91
 
stickroad said:
Will you be doing any overclocking? If not theirs nothing wrong with AMD.
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I am unsure, I have been meaning to for the past 3 years with this unlocked Barton, but I have never got round to it, so I guess I wont be.

Would I save cash this way?

By the way, I can live with a 500gb and something like a 120gb too (for Windows)

I could do with an OS too if there is any cash left over :p


Thanks to everyone so far I am saving them in a text file :p
 
If you need an OS as well you could knock the graphics card in mine down to an X1950pro which will cost about £100 and the X1950pro is powerful enough for a 19" at it's native resolution easily. :)
 
Could drop the CPU to the E4300 to shave off 40quid an easy overclock on stock would get you upto 6320 speeds without breaking a sweat!!

Other than that can't fault semi-pro's spec !!
 
Check it, Bang on. :p

Asus VW192S 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.80GHz (Socket AM2)

Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache X2

NEC AD7170S Serial ATA 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case

Total : £800.00

Or with O/S:

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM

Asus VW192S 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.80GHz (Socket AM2)

Asrock ALiveSATA2-GLAN (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI

Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800AAJS SATA-II 8MB Cache

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache

NEC AD7170S Serial ATA 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case

Total : £796.46
 
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DJ Binks said:
What are the AMD alternatives?


Also the PC needs to be as quiet as poss :p
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If you're competent enough to put the parts together, you're competent enough to do some overclocking. It really is very straightforward now. And that said, the massive gains available by overclocking any Core2Duo are obvious (even 4300s get over 3GHz with minimal tweaking). With your budget, the best use of your money is putting it into a C2D set-up.

Semi-pro waster's spec is what I'd buy with the cash, maybe drop the 8800GTS to an X1950Pro to buy the operating system.

Edit - Few more changes - new PSU/different case:

spec2.jpg
 
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Obviously if he's dead set against overclocking, you get more speed for the buck with AMD, but he seems on the fence, a little bit of gentle persuasion might nudge him over the edge ;)

Complete outfit for £799.99 - PCWorld style pricing (of course you'd never see this spec in PCWorld!)
 
supernova9 said:
If you're competent enough to put the parts together, you're competent enough to do some overclocking. It really is very straightforward now. And that said, the massive gains available by overclocking any Core2Duo are obvious (even 4300s get over 3GHz with minimal tweaking). With your budget, the best use of your money is putting it into a C2D set-up.

Semi-pro waster's spec is what I'd buy with the cash, maybe drop the 8800GTS to an X1950Pro to buy the operating system.

Edit - Few more changes - new PSU/different case:

spec2.jpg
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Nicely done... ;)
 
supernova9 said:
Obviously if he's dead set against overclocking, you get more speed for the buck with AMD, but he seems on the fence, a little bit of gentle persuasion might nudge him over the edge ;)

Complete outfit for £799.99 - style pricing (of course you'd never see this spec in !)
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See with the current PC, the MOBO is limiting me to what I can do :(, that and the VERY poor cooling!


Nice price :eek: :p!
I am not dead set against overclocking, I just need to see if it would be worth it and how easy it is! I just want a pc with good FPS for games mainly
 
It's definitely worth it. I'm running a 4300 in a DS3P at the moment, got it up to 3GHz stable no problem, was a case of going into the bios, setting CPU voltage up to 1.4000V, and gradually upping the FSB, rebooting and stability testing. Nothing complicated at all, and the possible gains are massive.

I'm running pretty much the spec I gave you, same monitor, case, PSU, graphics, mobo, processor. I'm getting great results at native resolution (1440x900) in everything I've thrown at this!
 
Nice one :D

Have to wait for my tax etc to be sorted first though :(; hopefully it will be @ the end of the month :D
 
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