Budget build (£500)

Jaypwns09

Jaypwns09

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Is it possible to make a quad core build with this budget with a mid-range graphics card, with atleast 4gb of ram?

Will it be good enough to play new games such as GT5 and WoW cataclysm?
 
thats easy.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
MSI GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £149.99
(£127.65) £149.99
(£127.65)
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £105.74
(£89.99) £105.74
(£89.99)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £62.99
(£53.61) £62.99
(£53.61)
Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard £59.98
(£51.05) £59.98
(£51.05)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £46.99
(£39.99) £46.99
(£39.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £29.99
(£25.52) £29.99
(£25.52)
Samsung SH-S223C/RSMS 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black/Silver/Biege) - Retail £12.91
(£10.99) £12.91
(£10.99)
Sub Total : £398.80
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £71.63
Total : £480.93
 
Hows the 465 differ from that version of the 460 can I ask

The 465 is zotac


Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 CPU Cooler

Would that be good enough?
 
The Arctic Freezer 7 will probably overhang the RAM slot nearest to the CPU, and depending on the RAM you won't be able to use it without removing some of the Arctic heatsink. This is a problem if you are using 4x2GB memory sticks.

Not 100% about this on the mobo, but this was the case on my MA770T-UD3 version.
 
Yeah, I'd go for the two stick option - obviously without measurements I can't say, but visually the bottom edge of my heatsink is still low enough to the mobo to touch the RAM even without any heatspreaders on the sticks. At the very least it would touch the edge, still not ideal.
 
Surprised i didnt mention it earlier, back in the old AMD socket 939 days, i had a Artic 7 with 4 corsair XMS DDR ram sticks(flashing lights on top), and it didnt clear the first stick, so i either had to mount it backwards, or use a pair of side cutters to remove the lower two plastic frame bits that guard the fan.

I did the later:D

HS-035-AR_400.jpg
 
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stulid said:
Surprised i didnt mention it earlier, back in the old AMD socket 939 days, i had a Artic 7 with 4 corsair XMS DDR ram sticks(flashing lights on top), and it didnt clear the first stick, so i either had to mount it backwards, or use a pair of side cutters to remove the lower two plastic frame bits that guard the fan.

I did the later:D

HS-035-AR_400.jpg
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If it does foul the 1st RAM slot (and I think it will by looking at the pic on the gigabyte website) then that solution will not work as the AMD clips for the cooler mean that it can only be mounted in only 2 directions (and not the 4 that intel bracket allows) which places the side fins over the RAM slot and not the fan guard.

I had this problem when I was trying to do my build on the GA 880GA-UD3H board and that board above looks to have the cpu socket and ram in the same place though of course I can't be sure.

My RAM had heatspreaders and if the RAM specced above has a lower stack height then you may just squeeze into slot 1 as mine, even with the heatspreaders, was quite close to being able to be squashed in however as has been said you wouldn't be able to remove it without removing the cooler most probably. I would do as has been suggested and just get the 2x4GB instead and use slots 2 & 4.
 
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