Final check and cost cutting.

Aeth · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:18

This is the build I'm planning to buy, is it OK? is there any way to costcut without affecting performance by too much? Thanks

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £154.99
(£129.16) £154.99
(£129.16)
MSI ATI Radeon HD 5850 Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £137.99
(£114.99) £137.99
(£114.99)
BenQ G2222HDL 21.5" Widescreen LED Monitor - Black £107.99
(£89.99) £107.99
(£89.99)
Foxconn H67A-S Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) £79.98
(£66.65) £79.98
(£66.65)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.33
(£53.61) £64.33
(£53.61)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103SJ) £40.99
(£34.16) £40.99
(£34.16)
OCZ Special OPS 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (OCZ3SOE1600LV4GK) £29.99
(£24.99) £29.99
(£24.99)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£11.66) £13.99
(£11.66)
Sub Total : £525.21
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £107.54
Total : £645.25

stulid · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:21

Nothing can be cut there.

A 500GB HDD is it.

Cookeh · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:25

£3 cheaper (and faster) HDD

£7 cheaper (but 300MHz slower) CPU

£5 cheaper mobo, by ASRock - but not seen any reivews for it at all!

Could save around £10 by getting a 19" monitor, but really not worth it!

As Stu said, save a bit more by getting a 500GB HDD.

This Barracuda for example, is £27.99 and very fast.

stulid · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:26

Cookeh said:
£3 cheaper (and faster) HDD

£7 cheaper (but 300MHz slower) CPU

£5 cheaper mobo, by ASRock - but not seen any reivews for it at all!

thats getting desperate

Cookeh · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:35

stulid said:
thats getting desperate

Tell me about it!

Aeth · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:42

Thanks for advice, I'd rather pay extra for the 500mb more memory lol. So the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache instead of the samsung.

Which is the better mobo out of Foxconn and the ASRock?

Thanks again

stulid · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:43

The Foxconn.

Cookeh · 12 Feb 2011 at 20:44

Aeth said:
Thanks for advice, I'd rather pay extra for the 500mb more memory lol. So the Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache instead of the samsung.

Which is the better mobo out of Foxconn and the ASRock?

Thanks again

Toughie. Foxconn has better features, more reputable name (even ASRock is owned by ASUS and still very good), but it has relatively poor driver support.

ASRock at this price is budget, but support as far as I'm aware is better.

I would go Foxconn (slightly biased as have one myself

) because of the extra expansion slots, more USB ports (which might not matter based on current SB problems :rolleyes:

).