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help to build a new PC

boyzone

boyzone

boyzone

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Iwant to build a pc and never done this before, but have the confidenece to do this. Budget is £500 for desk top £150 monitor.
what I have in mind is
MB Asus P7P55 DE
CPU i5 760 2.8 GHz
CPU fane Titan Fenrir
Win 7 home
Nvidia Gforce GTX 460
DVD write
500 Gb HD 2 off
300 mbms wireless lan
Case (not sure which one)
500 w PSU
4 GB memory DDR3 133mHZ

Guess I'll also need a RAID card as two hard drives

Does this sound OK? Hope to get all this within my budget.

PS I don't play games but want a good spec PC

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If you dont play games then the 460 is pointless. You would be better off with a 440/450 or AMD 55/56 series card and use the saved money to buy a 60gig SSD as a boot drive (£96 on this week only) and dont bother with 2* 500 g drives just buy a 1tb drive and partition it if needed. The motherboard you have listed supports Raid Anyway.

For the money you might as well buy ddr3 1600 mhz ram as well OCZ plat low voltage £30
 
boyzone said:
Iwant to build a pc and never done this before, but have the confidenece to do this. Budget is £500 for desk top £150 monitor.
what I have in mind is
MB Asus P7P55 DE
CPU i5 760 2.8 GHz
CPU fane Titan Fenrir
Win 7 home
Nvidia Gforce GTX 460
DVD write
500 Gb HD 2 off
300 mbms wireless lan
Case (not sure which one)
500 w PSU
4 GB memory DDR3 133mHZ

Don't sign up here purely to spam, thanks.
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1 post is not spamming. probably was a mistake.

op i would the cheapest card you can find if your not gaming. could get one for £20 and then you got another £100 to spend on your other parts.

you could even get a i7 2500 on that budget

also you will probably not need a raid card. most boards can raid anyway
 
"4 GB memory DDR3 133mHZ"
Wow, they make memory measured in millihertz now?? That's going to be a slight bottleneck.

OK, I think you meant 1333MHz. With a P55 mobo, I'd go for 1600MHz memory which is only a few quid more and 20% faster.

Or stick with 1333MHz DDR3 and get a H55 mobo, which supports the integrated graphics, saving you £££s on a GPU (and a lower spec PSU). If you're not a gamer or overclocker, there's no advantage to a P55 (except RAID?), and it disables the IGP. Spend the cash on an i7-870, an SSD , faster HDDs or a snazzy case.
 
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