Is this setup any good?

aj1soad · 18 Oct 2009 at 18:42

ive put an order together for this pc and im just wondering if its any good. because the last thing i want is to order a pc with useless components. the pc comes ready built with the components ive picked for £650 thanx

500 GB SATA-II HDD UDMA 300 7200 16MB
ATI Radeon HD 4890 - 1 GB - 2xDVI/VGA (XFX) (Includes Total Immersion Racing Game)
AMD Heatsink & Fan - Low Noise
Standard Operating System Backup
AMD Phenom II X2 550 (2 x 3.1GHz) 7MB Black Edition
Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/HDMI 5200MT/s (NVIDIA 780a)
Corsair XMS2 4GB PC2-8500 1066 MHZ (2 x 2 GB) - Lifetime Warranty (DDR2
450W PSU
Cooler Master Mytique 631
Internal Card Reader 50-in-1
Motherboard Integrated 5.1 Sound
4 X USB 2.0 Ports
Samsung (S222A) DVD PLUS/-RW 22x Dual Layer - Black (IDE)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 32 BIT & 64 BIT (Genuine CD & COA Included) PRE ORDER 22-10-09

Randomface74 · 18 Oct 2009 at 18:45

Get a better hard drive, like a Samsung F3, or a WD Caviar Black. 450W PSU won't cut it, get at least a 650W, Corsair HX are the ones to buy right now.

BigRazer93 · 18 Oct 2009 at 18:46

Like billy said, you wil have to get atleast a 500-550w Psu and change the hard drive to a samsung f3 500gb.

aj1soad · 18 Oct 2009 at 19:02

im a bit limited to what i can change as they dont offer any wd or samsung hd. would i b better off going for the ready built titan sabre on ocuk then?

cmndr_andi · 18 Oct 2009 at 19:22

aj1soad said:
would i b better off going for the ready built titan sabre on ocuk then?

Short answer, YES.

The sabre will cost the same as the above system (when OS is included on the sabre, get this). Also, the sabre is better for several reasons:

-Better CPU cooler (titan fenrir is really good, and FAR superior to the AMD stock one).
-Much better PSU, the Corair TX 650 is a very solid, high quality PSU.
-OCUK make good pre-built computers. Many forum members will attest to this.
-The PC is stock overclocked, so if you don't want to do any overclocking yourself, then your PC will have a nice little speed boost.

pastymuncher · 18 Oct 2009 at 19:43

If it's a quality psu such as a Corsair, then 450w will be more than enough. The rig in my siggy plus 2 Sata ll hdds, Sata dvdrw, 5x fans and a Zalman ZM-MFC2 only pulls 274w at the wall and that's when running Fur stability test and Prime at the same time.