Anything glaringly wrong with this order?

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As per usual, a mate wants me to build him a basic gaming pc and he wanted to know my suggestions.
Here's what I was thinking of putting to him.
his details were simply "must play the most recent games like FEAR and such like"

I've tried to use "this week deal" products as much as I can to keep the price down for him.

What do you think?

Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Black)
Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-8500 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2
Intel Extreme D975XBX2KR BAD AXE 2 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - Retail
HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Managed to keep it under a grand which I thought was rather good. :cool:

Thanks for help.
Andy
 
I can help on the gfx card by saying id get rid of the HIS x1950pro, i wouldn't touch HIS with a barge-pole, theres absolutely shedloads faulty, getting RMA'd in their droves, OcUK should cease selling the HIS cards, just do a search to see how bad they are, they are all duff, and besides the x1950pro's are old tech so you would be throwing money away, new gen 320mb 8800 GTS is sub £200 and absolutely obliterates the old x1950pro, and has much better image quality, and has the bonus of Dx10 so id get one of those, dont waste money on old tech Dx9 cards, if buying new then Nvidia is the only option. :)
 
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I agree with LoadsaMoney on spending a bit more on getting an 8800 series card, but your PSU will also need upgrading if that's what you end up choosing.

The rest looks great, and I've personally never actually heard anything bad about the HIS cards anyway. Still, DX10...

Edit - Get Vista Home Premium instead of XP.
 
What's his exact budget? Personally I'd get the following:


Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Silver £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
Thermalright Ultra-120 (Socket 754/939/940/LGA775) Heatsink £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £96.99
(£113.96) £96.99
(£113.96)
Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 400GB ST3400620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £101.99
(£119.84) £101.99
(£119.84)
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS SuperClocked 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £186.99
(£219.71) £186.99
(£219.71)
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)
Asus DRW-1608P3S 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - Retail £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
Sub Total : £710.90
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 : £126.67
Total : £850.52


There are better cases than the P180 - the PC7+ is much cheaper and can be made just as quiet.
I don't see any need for a 6600 - get a 6300 and spend the money saved on a better graphics card. The 6300 will clock to over 3GHz on the Asus P5N-E anyway.
you don't need PC2-8500 ram. PC2-6400 is easily fast enough, and on the P5N-E you can set it to run asynchronously from the FSB.
The 8800GTS is a better card than the X1950

All you need to add are 3 120mm fans, and possibly a better GFX cooler. :)
 
I couldn't pin him down to a budget, but by the way he squeaks when he walks, the cheaper the better. :D

Cheers for advise on the 1950's. I thought they were the cards to have at the mo.
I'm not keen on Vista until SP1 comes out, knowing that I'll be on 24/7 call out when things don't work.. ;)


Andy
 
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17683855

Theres a load for starters, and theres plenty more, and its not just the AGP version, PCI-E ones are duffers to, they have faulty power connectors on them, whereby you cant get your 6x pin PCI-E power cable in from your PSU, so you have to cut your 6x pin power cable to bits, or file it down to get it to go in, they artifact, black screen, crash, have rattly fans etc... the list goes on, id stay away from HIS, they used to be quality cards, but gone down hill now. :(
 
Another vote for the 8800gts, and also the pc-7, fantastic case, but would suggest going 500w+psu with it
 
Agreed, listen to Loadsamoney :) The 8800 GTS is the way to go, partner that with a Core 2 Duo (e4300, e6300 or e6600), 500W+ PSU (Seasonic, Corsair, Tagen, Enermax, Antec) a mobo (650SLi, P5B, DS3/4, 680i if you have the money) some PC6400 memory (cheaper RAM, such as OCZ standard speed 6400 will be fine) and you'll have a good system.
 
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+ Vista Home Premium.

Win.
 
OK, taken some of the advise on board and mulling over the shop I came up with this revised list.

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I've left off the O/S for now as I think he may have XP Pro sp2 already.
I've yet to be convinced by Vista I'm afraid.


Andy
 
Looks good, and you're 90% right about Vista tbh.

I would personally still change the PSU to a 520W Corsair, though. (They're back in stock now).
 
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