First Build - £350 Max!!!!!!!!

edh649

edh649

edh649

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For Christmas I am getting £200 of OCUK vouchers and I have £100 to spend of my own money and i will probably get some more money from relatives so about £350 :eek: max. Here is my component list so far:

CPU cooler -
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM2+ / 775 / 1156 / 1366)

Case
CIT 1003 Gaming Case with Side Window - Black

PSU
Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply (CMPSU-400CXUK) [CMPSU-400CXUK]

Memory
Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX Dual Channel (TWIN2X4096-8500C5C) [TWIN2X4096-8500C5C]

Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard [GA-P43-ES3G]

CPU
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5300 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.60GHz (800FSB) - Retail [BX80571E5300]
(Planning to overclock!!:D)

Graphics
VTX ATI Radeon HD 4670 1024MB DDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail [V]

Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) [WD5000AAKS]

I have an old Dell Dimension 8400 lying around so I'll probably get the cd/dvd drive from there.And an old pci Firewire card. I am planing to run windows but don't know whether to go 32-bit or 64-bit and xp, vista or 7. :confused:

So......
Have I missed anything out? Will it work? And what changes do you think I should make??

Happy Christmas:),
edh649
 
You will likely get much more for your money from an AMD based system on that budget.
Something like an Athlon II X2 245.

That Corsair PSU looks to only have 1 6 pin PCI-E connector which will be quite limiting. Not sure what that GPU needs tho - worth looking into.

PS that case looks horrible :p
 
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What are you going to use the computer for? If not gaming, then I'd suggest spending your money on an AM3 setup and upgrade graphics at a later date... i.e.

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If you are gaming, then you could downgrade everthing, (athlon II 240, 400w power supply, cheaper HD etc) and you could squeeze in a 4770 but all your other kit might be a bit of a compromise.
 
I'd say 64bit Windows 7.

The graphic card, motherboard and PSU would not be my choice, but then again I don't know what you will be using the PC for and you don't wanna go over your budget. Maybe an AMD based setup is indeed better?
 
i will be doing things like Google sketch up (Occasionally), Urban terror, Word processing, Internet surfing, Photo shop, Movie editing etc. i am fine to change anything as long as I don't go over my budget and if possible keep DDR2 memory as I have quite a few spare DDR2 memory chips lying about of 512mb and if I go 64bit that's about 5GB RAM!!

Also if i overclock is it possible to run audio programs (Cubase) as with my friend he overclocked and couldn't use cubase so should i overclock? or was this just for his pc??

Also my old dell has a socket 775 intel CPU so it may be worth keeping intel and if I break it through overclocking I still have a spare (just a thought)
 
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edh649 said:
My dad has recently said that he will pay for the processor so is it worth changing the CPU??
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Stupot listed a fair good build there.
If you can use your old DDR2, then get a mobo with ddr2 and an am2+ socket.
Your future RAM will be limited, but not for years yet... they still produce DDR!
Im going for the athlon quad at xmas too, they seem to represent good VFM.
So to answer you...
Yes
 
From your original spec, I'd spend a bit more on a better p45 mobo as the one you listed isn't a great clocker (I know, I have it). Or go with an AMD setup like the ones listed above.
 
if your limited with money, going with AMD is a no brainer now their chips overclock as well as the intel ones, also getting a dual or triple core athlon 2 you have the chance with certain motherboards to unlock the extra cache and cores making it similar to the more expensive quad cores and phenoms.
 
how about this?? If your fathers agreed to pay for the chip, this lot is 399.99 altogether, only 50 quid for him to pay and you get an unlocked black edition, the new ati 5770, works with your ddr2 and has the AAC to unlock it to a black edition quad core phenom if lucky :)
all in stock on here too :)

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Buutkinz build looks good so i will probably go with that - My old dell has 2gb of DDR2 ram which I could use and also an old Audio and Firewire PCI card.

If I have some money left over I might also buy a new case, Motherboard and Memory to put my Dell's old intel socket 775 into. (Just a thought!!) :)
 
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