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Foo fighter

Foo fighter

Foo fighter

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Hi everyone. Firstly my current desktop has pretty much had it (8 years old) so looking for a replacement. My first decision is whether to buy or build as it wont be used for overclocking just needs to be able to store music, run WoW and surfing the internet. My budget is £400-500 I've already got a monitor HP w1907s which suits me fine plus keyboard and mouse.

The Titan Nero has caught my eye so its between that and a rig that you can suggest cause I like the idea of building my own but at the price of the Titan Nero not sure if there is anything else competitive. Also if I went with the Nero what upgrades would you suggest and OS? Btw I've checked out Greywolfs great guide on how to build a system.

Thanks all
 
The nero would certainly do the job and be under budget including Vista HP x64 with the W7 upgrade voucher.

is really upto you wether you can be bothered or nor building or not mate :)

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And welcome to OcUK.....:p
 
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Okay thanks for the quick replies. Going take the easy option go for the TN rather than build, plus quick question whats the difference between Vista HP x32 and x64
 
Drake22 said:
does anybody actually buy OS nowadays?
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Plenty of people buy OS'es mate..

Foo fighter said:
Okay thanks for the quick replies. Going take the easy option go for the TN rather than build, plus quick question whats the difference between Vista HP x32 and x64
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One is 64bit the other is 32bit!!! :D

If you plan on using 4GB or more RAM, I would recommend using 64bit OS.
 
Drake's second attempt looks alright to me, I will say this though, if you are going to spend upwards of £100 on a cpu, make it a quad core, as good as the E8400 is ...it seems like a lot of money for that now. You will see more benefit from a Quad core over the coming years relative to the last couple anyway.

I would put a stronger power supply in it also, the 400w one will probably be fine, but I don't think it's going to leave you much overhead with that machine running flat out, stressing the PII 955 and the GF 260 to the max. It can draw quite a lot of power under load and that psu is going to be working hard to supply it, 450-500w should give you that no problem, this or this should do it.
 
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overkill

bit of an overkill to just play wow and surf the net, a dual core amd 5600 and a couple of gigs of ram would do, and building your own pc can save a few pennies too :)
 
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