Cheap Spec Check

Slime · 13 Feb 2007 at 11:05

Right, £500 to spend for full system. It's not for me and i know the budget is tight but here's what i'm thinking:

Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £35.99 (£42.29)

Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £42.99(£50.51)

BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7300 LE Turbo Cache 256MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £28.99 (£34.06)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00GHz (Socket AM2) - OEM £54.99(£64.61)

MSI K9N Neo-F nForce 550 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £44.99 (£52.86)

GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB6400UDC) £59.99 (£70.49)

Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM £18.99
(£22.31)

Logitech Cordless Desktop EX-110 - Retail £17.99 (£21.14)

Belinea 1925S1W 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black/Silver £107.99(£126.89)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2) £13.99
(£16.44)

Sub Total : £426.90
Shipping : £12.95
Vat : £76.97
Total : £516.82

It's ever so slightly over budget but i'm under strict instructions to keep it as cheap as possible!

It will be used mainly for Photoshop, Internet and Music. No gaming whatsoever. I've tried and tried to make it C2D but i'm finding it impossible especially as i need a monitor also.

Is everything compatible? Will everything work ok together? Have i forgotten anything? Any other comments appreciated.

Ta

melbourne720 · 13 Feb 2007 at 11:23

Looks good for the budget TBH. C2D for £500 including a monitor is a very tough challenge, probably impossible.

mishima · 13 Feb 2007 at 11:31

As Melbourne says, for the budget its a decent rig. There's quite a lot of threads that have the £500-600 spec me budget and its fine if its just core components like CPU, Mobo, RAM, GPU etc but when its almost a full system its very hard!

melbourne720 · 13 Feb 2007 at 11:45

off topic: Mishima, did you get that 8800 GTS 320MB in the end?

Apologies OP...

mishima · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:18

Just ordered it this morning mate. edit: Was in my Junk mail didn't see it!

melbourne720 · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:33

@mishima: Have done, also take that e-mail of the forum before a spam robot spots it and you get loads of junk!

Slime · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:42

Cheers for the input guys, think i'll be ordering it this week!

mishima · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:45

No problem. Worth a mention, there is some GeIL Value 2GB RAM on special for £111 I think this week. I know its £35 more but you would be getting an extra GB there, would give you that extra loading time and speed.

melbourne720 · 13 Feb 2007 at 12:47

mishima said:
No problem. Worth a mention, there is some GeIL Value 2GB RAM on special for £111 I think this week. I know its £35 more but you would be getting an extra GB there, would give you that extra loading time and speed.

Worth doing - games like BF2 are hampered by 1GB of RAM.

Slime · 13 Feb 2007 at 14:04

Hmm, i'll give it a think but i think 2GB is overkill for what it'll be used for.

melbourne720 · 13 Feb 2007 at 14:46

Slime said:
Hmm, i'll give it a think but i think 2GB is overkill for what it'll be used for.

<Scans back to original post> Good point "No gaming whatsoever" it probably isn't necessary, just desirable.