New build £600 to spend

chrislocalboy

chrislocalboy

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Right I posted a couple of months ago as my friend wanted me to build a PC and having not done so for a few years was well behind with the latest hardware etc etc, posted in here for suggestions and ended up building him an awesome machine he is well happy with, thanks to the suggestions I got in here.

Now I'm looking to replace mine and I've got between £500-600 to spend, will be used for gaming primarily and will be built ready for the release of Fallout 3 (been waiting a long time for it).

Dont need monitor, keyboard, mouse and speakers, this is just for the base unit itself, I'll be using XP as I cant stand Vista atm

Read good things about the Wolfdale core chips so I suppose that would be a good starting point and I assume I'll get a 8800GTX as they seem to be good both in performance and price.

Spec away chaps and suggestions would be fantastic.

*Edit* I probably wont be looking to oc for around 12 months or so, so coolers etc wont be needed right now.
 
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e8400 is a good buy but at the moment demand is high so the price has shot up, they currently cost £50 than when they first came out. Any decent P35 board should suit you fine also
 
Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1333FSB)
(£117.49)
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU
(£82.24)
Abit IP35-E (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£62.26)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK)
(£31.71)
PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£146.86)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£39.94)


Sub Total : £408.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout)
Shipping : £10.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £73.48

Total : £493.37


That leaves you room for OS? if not upgrade cpu or Ram?
 
Thats awesome thanks!

Sorry I didnt get chance to check my thread again last night when I got home hence the late reply.

I already have a copy of XP and personally I tried my hardest and used Vista for over a year using a corporate key that was given to us at my old work place, found it buggy, resource hogging etc etc. In your opinion is it worth getting now or shall I stick to XP and wait for Windows 7?

Obviously if I stick to XP I'll have some more cash to upgrade to CPU/RAM..... what d'ya reckong chaps?

Oh and I'll be able to pick it up saying another tenner as I live about 10 mins away from OcUK.

Thanks in advance.
 
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Also I've not used an Abit board before and have always opted for Asus and Gigbyte, from the reviews I have read everyone says its an excellent board..... is the the reason you recommended it?
 
realise you said you wouldn't be overclocking for a while, but cooler is included as it will keep the processor cooler and be quieter.

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ) £51.99 (£61.09)

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £62.99
(£74.01)

Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU £69.99
(£82.24)

Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £99.99 (£117.49)

PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £124.99 (£146.86)

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) £49.99 (£58.74)

Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £29.99 (£35.24)

Sub Total : £489.93
Shipping : £10.95
VAT : £87.65
Total : £588.53
 
Hmmm interesting, I put that Gigabyte board in my mates PC and that seems great, why have you recommended that?

How come you'd suggest 4Gb of RAM? as if I stick to XP it cant use more than 3Gb? also I dont really need much storage space as I've got plenty already.

Thanks for the suggestions.... always appreciated.
 
250gb drive recommended by Kearney will do fine then.

People i know have the combination of motherboard and processor and they run very nicely.

for the price/budget makes sense to go 4gb (3-3.5gb usable) rather than 2gb imho.
 
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250gb drive recommended by Kearney will do fine then.

People i know have the combination of motherboard and processor and they run very nicely.

for the price/budget makes sense to go 4gb (3-3.5gb usable) rather than 2gb imho.
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Yeah I suppose so....... nice one.

Any thoughts regarding the Vista/XP question?
 
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