Budget build

Garyj881 · 13 Mar 2011 at 13:29

My sister has asked me to build her a budget pc.

She won't do any gaming what so ever, but will do a bit of encoding now and again. She is coming from a 8 year old pentium system with is faulty but doesn't want to spend any money on and would rather have a new system.

I have chosen the system below hoping the cpu will unlock to a quad core, not a huge problem if it doesn't, more of a bonus if it does

I haven't built an AMD system before, hence why I am asking if there's any incompatibilities or oversights in my spec.

I do plan to put a small overclock on the cpu (as much as the stock fan can take) so is the ram upto the job?

Comments welcome.

EDIT: I have obviously missed off the dvd/cd rw drive, will add before purchasing.

95thrifles · 13 Mar 2011 at 13:39

Id swap the case and psu for the coolermaster 430 case with psu, better case same sort of price
Also you can now get the new Phenom x4 840 for only a tenner more than that dual core, worth a look imo

VoG · 13 Mar 2011 at 13:44

95thrifles said:
you can now get the new Phenom x4 840 for only a tenner more than that dual core, worth a look imo

+ 1

if she plans on doing abit of encoding now n then, then ide definatley look at stretching the budget just a wee bit to get a quad into the build.

King Damager · 13 Mar 2011 at 13:46

For the extra £5 this PSU instead is definitely worth it
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-042-BQ&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1083

Also from what I've heard you might want to get her a cheap aftermarket CPU cooler as I believe the AMD stock one can get quite loud.

Something like this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

I'd choose the PSU upgrade over the CPU cooler though if price is an issue, but yeah if you want to do a small overclock, I'd say it might well be worth getting an aftermarket cPU.

RAM is fine though

kd