Is this spec any good?

Jonny Wright · 31 May 2009 at 09:26

Hi this is my first time posting on the forum but I have been browsing for research on parts, room and case Ideas for a while. I would have posted this earlier but I didn't realise that my account would have to be validated.

Anyway I have not built a new rig since 2004/5, and am currently running a AMD 64 3200, 2 GB DDR1 RAM, Nvidia 6600 graphics. And think it's time for an upgrade as I'm going to uni and don't want to take a laptop and say a game console as I think it would just be too much. :cool:

As going to uni I'm on quite a tight budget and I would like to build a computer that will run games smoothly, internet browsing and office for under £700.

I will need; case, psu, cpu, motherboard, memory, graphics card, hdd, dvd drive.

OS I will be using Windows 7 because it's free

And I have looked at i7 but I think it will be too expensive to get a good enough spec for it to be worth while.

This is what I picked out, I think the PSU is a bit week and maybe the memory. What I would like to know is if these parts fit together well and whether they will be any good and are there any areas that need improving.

Thanks for the help.

shadowake · 31 May 2009 at 09:29

Is that board micro atx? Not sure it will fit ijn that case?

EDIT: It is ignore me!!!

Jonny Wright · 31 May 2009 at 09:29

Yes it is a micro ATX.

RJC · 31 May 2009 at 09:30

Fairly good spec, you will need a cpu cooler as the cpu is oem, memory looks fine.
The PSU is enough but I would buy a 500w ~ to leave a little extra room for future.

Jonny Wright · 31 May 2009 at 09:38

RJC said:
Fairly good spec, you will need a cpu cooler as the cpu is oem, memory looks fine.
The PSU is enough but I would buy a 500w ~ to leave a little extra room for future.

Thanks a lot I didn't actually think of that :rolleyes:

Any recommendations for a cooler if I want to overclock in the future?

RJC · 31 May 2009 at 09:40

Thermalright Ultra Extreme, Tuniq Tower and the new Titan is a good coolinf from what I have been hearing.

shadowake · 31 May 2009 at 09:47

Just check they fir OK in that case, the TRUE is rather large!

Jonny Wright · 31 May 2009 at 09:58

Thanks for all your input, I will have to finalise it in the next few weeks.

Jonny Wright · 31 May 2009 at 17:55

Just out of interest what type of settings does anyone think this will be capable of.

E.g

Crysis - Medium?????
COD 4 - High??????
etc.

shadowake · 31 May 2009 at 17:57

should be pretty high on everything on a reasonable resolution, thats a damn good graphics card, and that processes isnt shabby either