Help with £800 pounds

[ToLearn]

Hi all
after recently upgrding my pc a good friend now whats to build his own

hes not a great gamer american conquest type games and online games

its need to include everything except for keyboard and mouse a 19 inch tft would also be nice

any help you could give would be much appricated ive tried myself but never seem happy with what i pick unless i spend over a grand

thank you

 

[BigDom]

This should do you just fine

Graphics is really a X850 in disguise. Rest is just a solid straight forward spec.

MO-027-HY Hyundai ImageQuest B90A 19" LCD Monitor (MO-027-HY)
£194.95 £194.95
CP-118-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3200BPBOX) (CP-118-AM)
£104.95 £104.95
MB-129-AS Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£28.70 £28.70
CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)
£65.50 £65.50
MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL)
£54.95 £54.95
GX-055-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO16 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-055-PC)
£104.95 £104.95
HD-023-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA)
£35.95 £35.95
Subtotal £659.90
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £10.95
VAT £117.40
Total £788.25

 

[ToLearn]

ahh forgot one thing bud wants nforce 4 board but doesnt matter about sli so much so ati is fine either way is the ati card you quoted much differance then a 6800 gs

 

[ToLearn]

CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) 1
£65.50 £65.50
HD-024-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA) 1
£49.95 £49.95
CD-015-SO Sony DDU1613 DVD-ROM (Silver) - OEM (CD-015-SO) 1
£12.50 £12.50
CD-028-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-028-NE) 1
£28.70 £28.70
CP-150-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-121-AM) 1
£124.95 £124.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS) 1
£61.95 £61.95
MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL) 1
£54.95 £54.95
GX-055-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO16 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-055-PC) 1
£104.95 £104.95
Subtotal £503.45
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £89.85
Total £603.25


how does this look plus a monitor of course

 

[Monstermunch]

Hi all
after recently upgrding my pc a good friend now whats to build his own

hes not a great gamer american conquest type games and online games

its need to include everything except for keyboard and mouse a 19 inch tft would also be nice

any help you could give would be much appricated ive tried myself but never seem happy with what i pick unless i spend over a grand

thank you

£800 budget to include a 19" tft? You'll be seriously restricting how good the pc will be. A good 19" tft will be around £300 and an okay one for about £200. So the pc spec is dropped from £800 to £500-£600.

This is the sort of spec you could look at without the tft:

CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£184.95 £184.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£61.95 £61.95
MY-046-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)
£109.95 £109.95
GX-069-LT Leadtek GeForce 7800GT 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-069-LT)
£169.95 £169.95
HD-048-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 200GB 2000JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-048-WD)
£54.95 £54.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£28.70 £28.70
CA-017-TT Thermaltake VB1000BNS Soprano SuperMidi Tower - Black (CA-017-TT)
£39.95 £39.95
CA-005-HP Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Black UV (CA-005-HP)
£54.95 £54.95
Subtotal £705.35
VAT £123.44
Total £828.79

NICE

 

[ACESHIGH]

This should do you just fine

Graphics is really a X850 in disguise. Rest is just a solid straight forward spec.

MO-027-HY Hyundai ImageQuest B90A 19" LCD Monitor (MO-027-HY)
£194.95 £194.95
CP-118-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3200BPBOX) (CP-118-AM)
£104.95 £104.95
MB-129-AS Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£28.70 £28.70
CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)
£65.50 £65.50
MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL)
£54.95 £54.95
GX-055-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO16 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-055-PC)
£104.95 £104.95
HD-023-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA)
£35.95 £35.95
Subtotal £659.90
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £10.95
VAT £117.40
Total £788.25

This looks like the rig to go for. Has all you asked for & within your price.

As for the graphics card .. PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO16 256MB .. its just as fast as a 6800GS at stock & should be overclockable to X850XT PE speeds. Its also cheaper, so a better choice.

 

[ToLearn]

has all i asked for but dont want to go the crossfire route as seen heard to many problems so want to go the tried and tested nforce4 motherboard but thx for help anyway the spec i did was around same price with same card and better cpu from what i can see

cheers for replys all helps to make chocies

 

[ScarySquirrel]

may i ask why he needs two graphics cards if he is not a great gamer? i personally think you would be better off getting 1 decent card, rather than 2 lesser cards

 

[ToLearn]

confused as to why u said about 2 cards i never said 2 cards and have not put 2 cards in my spec bud just 1 ati card ?

 

[BigDom]

confused as to why u said about 2 cards i never said 2 cards and have not put 2 cards in my spec bud just 1 ati card ?

Perhaps because you said

has all i asked for but dont want to go the crossfire route as seen heard to many problems so want to go the tried and tested nforce4 motherboard but thx for help anyway the spec i did was around same price with same card and better cpu from what i can see

Which implies you want to run two cards.

TBH there isn't a lot to choose between them, I personally have had a lot more problems with NF4 than Radeon Xpress 200. Entirely up to you at the end of the day, on the NF4 front there is an asus for pretty much the same price.

 

[ToLearn]

ahhh sorry bud didnt mean to confuse people no only wanted 1 card just didnt really want to go for the crossfire route just a perosnale choice i did mention that further up the screen about not wanting sli or crossfire so got bit confused when 2 cards were mentioned myself my fault im not the best person at explaining myself

thx for your help much appricated

will be going for mostly your spec anyway bud but with a 3700sd

 

[GAMEfreak]

crossfire is irrelevant unless you are running two cards so theres no problems. get the GTO16, its the best for the budget mate.