Any better for £420?

MeatLoaf · 30 Apr 2007 at 22:23

Mate wants me to build him a £420 machine, hes already got a case and tft along with a retail windows licence

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £65.99
(£77.54) £65.99
(£77.54)
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £57.99
(£68.14) £57.99
(£68.14)
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
OcUK GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £101.99
(£119.84) £101.99
(£119.84)
Tagan TG530-U15 530W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)

p4radox · 30 Apr 2007 at 22:30

Save on the PSU and try to stretch to an 8800GTS 320mb. I think even the X1950Pro is faster than the 8600, but you'd have to confirm that.

Edit: you could also save on the mobo by getting a P5B.

MeatLoaf · 30 Apr 2007 at 22:35

I think the PSU is probably the cheapest decent one i could get, and there set on SLI, I suggested a DS3 but he wants SLI capability.

I thought the 8600 as its DX10 and hes going to run vista

mattyj1085 · 1 May 2007 at 00:38

Your not going to do much better for the price but if it was me it would be well worth the extra £60 to get these instead or even get the Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C5 Dual Channel Kit (CT2KIT12864AA667) ram and its only £40 over then

Jaffa_Cake · 1 May 2007 at 09:16

mattyj1085 said:
Your not going to do much better for the price but if it was me it would be well worth the extra £60 to get these instead or even get the Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C5 Dual Channel Kit (CT2KIT12864AA667) ram and its only £40 over then

I think thats just about perfect for your budget, you can push that ram and cpu right up on stock cooling.