Well 3rd time lucky. Due to housing issues (being homeless for a month) my last build thread led to nothing but now I'm moving into a new place on tuesday I will be able to order a machine for the following weekend! Woo!
Thinking of the following:
MSI P55-GD65 or Gigabyte GA-P55A-USB3 - £95-100
i5 760 - £140
CoolerMaster 430 w/ 500W PSU - £63
Corsair 2x4GB XMS3 - £58
nVidia 460 1GB - £150
Samsung F3 500GB - £32
Samsung 22x DVD-RW Lightscribe - £15
OCuk 300mbs Wifi n card - £17
~£575
Obivously not perfect prices but its what I have written down on my notepad while looking at stuff... down to questions:
.::. Is there anything you would change?
.::. MSI or Gigabyte mobo? Why?
.::. I don't have any cables or anything spare lying about anymore... am I missing anything? (do the drives come with sata cables?)
.::. I'm still umming and arrring over waiting for sandybridge and I will wait IF for some reason I can't order next weekend (because of Christmas & New Years the weekends after) but to be honest apart from a mobo & cpu swap nothing will really change - esp as they said they should be pretty similar in pricing.
Cheers
Leon
Thinking of the following:
MSI P55-GD65 or Gigabyte GA-P55A-USB3 - £95-100
i5 760 - £140
CoolerMaster 430 w/ 500W PSU - £63
Corsair 2x4GB XMS3 - £58
nVidia 460 1GB - £150
Samsung F3 500GB - £32
Samsung 22x DVD-RW Lightscribe - £15
OCuk 300mbs Wifi n card - £17
~£575
Obivously not perfect prices but its what I have written down on my notepad while looking at stuff... down to questions:
.::. Is there anything you would change?
.::. MSI or Gigabyte mobo? Why?
.::. I don't have any cables or anything spare lying about anymore... am I missing anything? (do the drives come with sata cables?)
.::. I'm still umming and arrring over waiting for sandybridge and I will wait IF for some reason I can't order next weekend (because of Christmas & New Years the weekends after) but to be honest apart from a mobo & cpu swap nothing will really change - esp as they said they should be pretty similar in pricing.
Cheers
Leon