Custom Built PC

Xardziu · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:18

Hiya guys, I was wondering if you could help me.
I have a budget of about 900 pounds and I want to by a PC with a monitor.
I was thinking of something along those lines :

Dell G2410 24" Widescreen LED Monitor £229.99 OR
DELL 24" MONITOR WIDESCREEN S2409W BLACK LCD 16:9 DVI HDMI HDCP 1000:1(3YR MANUFACTURERS ONSITE WARRANTY) £184.00
Asus GeForce GTX 275 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card £161.99
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £145.98
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD 770 (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £76.99
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD10EADS) £61.99
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3G16004GK) £56.98
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready Power Supply £54.99
Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black (No PSU) £45.99
Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
Edimax EW-7128G 54Mbps Wireless PCI Adapter £13.98.

I am situated in Greater Manchester and I'm using overclockers.co.uk.

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Kennysevenfold · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:19

Silly boy

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skello · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:22

oops.

Xardziu · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:24

just realised lol, but edited the post

so guys, what do you think ?

Kennysevenfold · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:29

Looks good to me tbh, would swap out the HDD for THIS

What would you use the system for.?

Xardziu · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:32

Gaming and work with CS3, Dreamweaver and Flash, need all the programmes to run simultaneously. I think that I will be getting a 64bit version of Vista Ultimate btw.

Kennysevenfold · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:35

How about something like this mate.?

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

Samsung T240 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor £239.99
(£208.69) £239.99
(£208.69)

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £145.98
(£126.94) £145.98
(£126.94)

Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4890 Plus 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £144.99
(£126.08) £144.99
(£126.08)

Corsair HX 620W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-620HXUK) £94.99
(£82.60) £94.99
(£82.60)

Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD 770 (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £76.99
(£66.95) £76.99
(£66.95)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £64.99
(£56.51) £64.99
(£56.51)

OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel (OCZ3G16004GK) £56.98
(£49.55) £56.98
(£49.55)

Coolermaster Elite 335 Case - Black (No PSU) £31.99
(£27.82) £31.99
(£27.82)

Sony Optiarc AD-7240S 24x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.77) £16.99
(£14.77) Sub Total : £759.91 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.50 VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £116.16 Total : £890.57

Xardziu · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:42

I read way too many reviews about 4890 vs 275, please dont get me started again

im quite confident that I want NVidia graphics. yet, im curious why you suggested it? and regarding the power supply, as far as im aware, the one i chose is sufficient even though im planning on doing some OC in the future. also, why is there such a difference in price between those two power supplies?

95thrifles · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:49

the 4890 and 275 are more or less identical in terms of performance, and theres not much in it price wise either now NVidia have lowered their prices, theres generally more supprt for xfire than SLI (unless i7 which is pretty much both in most cases) I guess this is why he went 4890 as gives you the option of xfire later, if needed
the corsairs are some of the best PSUs available, while yours is good, that ones great
Edit: Oh and I forgot to say, solid spec, lol

Kennysevenfold · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:50

95thrifles said:
the 4890 and 275 are more or less identical in terms of performance, and theres not much in it price wise either now NVidia have lowered their prices, theres generally more supprt for xfire than SLI (unless i7 which is pretty much both in most cases) I guess this is why he went 4890 as gives you the option of xfire later, if needed
the corsairs are some of the best PSUs available, while yours is good, that ones great
Edit: Oh and I forgot to say, solid spec, lol

This

Xardziu · 3 Aug 2009 at 22:55

thanks, I will consider that power supply you mentioned

Really appreciate your help.

JonJ678 · 3 Aug 2009 at 23:37

Dont get a WD green drive if you're putting an operating system on it. Samsung F1, western digital black or ssds. There's no point severely handicapping the system with an energy saving (therefore slow) hard drive.

Good call on the rest of it though I personally loathe your chosen case. Too flimsy, too loud.