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winter

winter

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hi all, ive had my friend price up a build for my brother, if you look in the pictures below.i shouldnt have any compatability issued should i? jsut wanted to make sure before i ordered. would this 650w power supply be sufficient? help appreciated, thanks all. see pic below

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its pretty much a gaming rig btw!
 
Yeah, you could easily get a ti-core, DDR3 and MA3 socket mobo for that....

Cheaper, and get a 4890 ;)

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
CP-238-AM_60.jpg
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £97.99
(£85.21) £97.99
(£85.21)
MB-198-GI_60.jpg
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD 770 (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £76.99
(£66.95) £76.99
(£66.95)
MY-042-GS_60.jpg
G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM) £67.99
(£59.12) £67.99
(£59.12) Sub Total : £211.28 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £33.12 Total : £253.90
 
Aye, that system above will do you very well. The only changes you may want to consider are:

-The case is very much personal choice, if you like the look of the Antec 300 your originally picked, then go for it. Its only £5 more and is also a very good case.

- If your bro plans on overclocking then you may want to get him an aftermarket cooler like this. If he doesn't then the stock AMD one should be fine.

- Ensure you have a copy of windows for him to use. My personal choice would be windows 7 which is coming out on the 22nd October.

Other than that, have fun with the build, your bro should have a very nice PC :)
 
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Dell UltraSharp 2209WA 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor £185.99
(£161.73) £185.99
(£161.73)
Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £126.99
(£110.43) £126.99
(£110.43)
AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £97.99
(£85.21) £97.99
(£85.21)
Asus M4A79XTD Evo (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £84.99
(£73.90) £84.99
(£73.90)
Be Quiet! Straight Power 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant Power Supply £66.99
(£58.25) £66.99
(£58.25)
OCZ Reaper 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C6 1333MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3RPR13334GKK) £60.00
(£52.17) £60.00
(£52.17)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £59.98
(£52.16) £59.98
(£52.16)
NZXT BETA Classic Series Case - Black (No PSU) £39.99
(£34.77) £39.99
(£34.77)
Samsung SH-S223B/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.77) £16.99
(£14.77)
Coolermaster Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/775/1156) £13.98
(£12.16) £13.98
(£12.16)
Sub Total : £655.55
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £15.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £100.66
Total : £771.71

If you can stretch a bit more... if not then just get a cheaper monitor.
 
all ready to order lads, just could u tell me a bit more about mobo? just as its a cheaper 1 to many ive seen, is it still fine? im really noob tbh lol, all help would be appreciated. only ive been bitten b4 with this, bought a mobo a while back from msi and they decided not to update the bios for later processors, so i was f*kt, thanks all.
 
The mobo in my spec is a micro-ATX board. That means its smaller than standard ATX boards and thus cheaper to make. The only downside is that it has less expansion ports and less robust power architecture. However, if your bro is happy with just one PCI-E 2.0 x16 graphics card and a free PCI slot, then it is perfect for his needs. It also uses DDR2 RAM which is much cheaper than the DDR3 stuff, albeit slightly slower (it will still be plenty fast enough for all modern games/ apps).

Asus are a pretty huge motherboard company (the biggest I believe) and they seem to support their boards well. The board I picked is 785 chipset, which is one of the newest out and should be supported for a long while yet (AM3 is very much an active platform).
 
winter said:
hi all, ive had my friend price up a build for my brother, if you look in the pictures below.i shouldnt have any compatability issued should i? jsut wanted to make sure before i ordered. would this 650w power supply be sufficient? help appreciated, thanks all. see pic below

rhyz.png


its pretty much a gaming rig btw!
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Hi Winter ,

The only thing id change mate is the CPU / MOBO / RAM.

Your paying quite a bit there for an old bit of technology. 775 is now going to be phased out and i can NOT see the justification in paying hundreds for new parts with it.

Me personally i would get a I5 750 Quad CPU , A nice Gigabyte US3L 1156 Mobo and some nice G.Skill RipJaw memory

This may add a little to your total price but you will have a brand new pc with the latest components. It will kick ass too.

McT
 
thanks m8, il go ahead and order that set up then. yeah that seems like a good setup to mate but im really pushing his budget as is! thanks all.
 
So you going with the AM3 platform.
That's still a wise choice. Its AMD's mainstream platform so your buying into something with good future options.

Enjoy the system m8.

McT
 
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