Is this budget build a good one?

James2593 · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:02

My 5 year old, tired laptop has seen better days, so i'm deciding a desktop is the way to go.

Will this build be compatible?

I'm on a very tight budget and I know this is no way going to be a mega gaming rig, it'll mostly be used for web browsing and occasional gaming, such as Garry's mod and TF2 etc.

I don't mind upgrading parts in 8-12 months, I just need an 'ok' machine for now.

Thanks in advance.

Reaper 392 · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:10

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you fixed the 2nd image
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looking at your motherboard, RAM, graphics and DVD drive it looks ok for a build where the highest end games will be source games.

the processor may not work in that motherboard, as the motherboard only supports up to 95W processors. check on asus's website if it will work

*2nd edit*
to avoid a double post, heres the best i can do with overclockers (since the graphics card you selected isnt available)
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £83.99
1 x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 Single Slot 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Stalker & AVP Games £77.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (AM3) Motherboard - Retail £39.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £27.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
1 x Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) £11.99
Total : £334.51 (includes shipping : £10.50).

its over budget, but you get a couple of free games, and the graphics card is a lot better than the one you selected

James2593 · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:35

Reaper 392 said:
*edit*
you fixed the 2nd image
*/edit*

looking at your motherboard, RAM, graphics and DVD drive it looks ok for a build where the highest end games will be source games.

the processor may not work in that motherboard, as the motherboard only supports up to 95W processors. check on asus's website if it will work

*2nd edit*
to avoid a double post, heres the best i can do with overclockers (since the graphics card you selected isnt available)
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition "125W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £83.99
1 x XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 Single Slot 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Stalker & AVP Games £77.99
1 x Cooler Master Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99
1 x Gigabyte GA-M68MT-S2 (AM3) Motherboard - Retail £39.98
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500413AS) £27.98
1 x OcUK 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
1 x Corsair Value 2GB (1x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Single Channel Module (VS2GB1333D3) £11.99
Total : £334.51 (includes shipping : £10.50).

its over budget, but you get a couple of free games, and the graphics card is a lot better than the one you selected

Just checked the wattage, the CPU is 95w and the max of the mobo is 95w.

Thanks for the help on the changes, but it is a bit too far out of budget, considering I still need to buy a monitor.

Would it be compatible if I just swap the motherboard from the ASrock to the Gigabyte one?

Reaper 392 · 1 Jul 2011 at 14:19

James2593 said:
Just checked the wattage, the CPU is 95w and the max of the mobo is 95w.

Thanks for the help on the changes, but it is a bit too far out of budget, considering I still need to buy a monitor.

Would it be compatible if I just swap the motherboard from the ASrock to the Gigabyte one?

the processor would be, but you would need to swap the RAM to DDR3 RAM

this is a good thing though, because DDR3 RAM is faster than DDR2, and is likely to be cheaper