Building a PC for £600, parts depend on using this used PSU.

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Building a PC for a mate. Up untill now I thought there was nothing he could salvage from his old PC, but then I remembered we bought a new PSU after his old on blew and that it wasn't too shabby. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's an Enermax 535w.

It's been a while since I've built a PC and I seem to have forgotten everything important about PSUs, would that be suitable? I also need some advice on the parts if you fine gentlemen would.

This is what i had in mind:
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I'm a little over budget, so if his old PSU is good that would be spiffy.




1) How does the build look? (I'm out of touch)

2) Old 535w PSU any good?

3) If I can use the Enermax, can that extra £20 be put to good use? :D

Cheers.
 
I would think the enermax would cope with that system but I would recommend going for the quad core i5 750 which is £10 cheaper than the 650 CPU and faster. I would also change the hard drive to a samsung F3 drive, they do a 1TB model or get two 500GB F3 drives and put the in RAID 0 for the best performance.
 
Crikey, good job you pointed that out, I thought all i5s were quad, thought it was unusually cheap! Cheers.

Are the F3s faster than the WD then?

I would suggest the RAID setup but he wants 1TB.
 
Raid 0 of 500s would give him 1tb usable, but a higher risk of drive failure. Only good if he'll keep backups really.

Just how old is the enermax? If over 5 years, probably not a good idea. Otherwise I imagine it'll be just fine. Does it have an 8 pin cpu cable / 24 pin motherboard or 4 & 20, and how many pci-e cables?

I'd have to check this, but iirc the F3 drives have higher read and write speeds but lower seek times. I'd want the drive with the lower seek time personally, but people do seem to love the F3s.

I don't think the antec 300 is worth £43, so that's the part I'd want to change. The elite 335 is cheaper and imo better, but if you can go to a more expensive case then better still. I'd change them motherboard to this m-atx one and buy an antec mini P180. One cost me £65 a few months back, and the difference in quality between the 300 and mini p180 is ludicrous.

The main benefits being a smaller, quieter computer for close to the same money.
 
well, you can discount the corsair from that build so you got a bit more spare.
-Go for corsair memory cause its on deal atm to save a few extra bucks aswell^_^
-And probably swap the mobo for an sli/crossfirex ready one. Sicne you are spending a heafty price on it, why not make it more future proof for that kinda cash.
 
I would get the 750 I5 as its cheaper. also go with oem one saving you a bit more

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-301-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=1672 ( you will than need a cooler unless you get the retial version)

also this HDD, not sure if its any better or worst I ll soon tell you xD http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&subid=1279 its cheaper than the one you have spec'ed orginaly and the same basic specs

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-225-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1495, might be able to just afford that board now if you want Crossfire
 
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JonJ678 said:
Raid 0 of 500s would give him 1tb usable, but a higher risk of drive failure. Only good if he'll keep backups really.
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Nah not higher risk of drive failure, just that IF one hard drive fails, you lose ALL data. ;)
 
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