New PC

ash7jar · 2 Oct 2010 at 18:59

Hi been a long time since i built a PC, just wondering if this was ok?

any thoughts and problems here would like to know the buget is £900

Many thanks for your help and thoughts.

stulid · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:05

three things,

the psu is overkill, a 650w modular will do such as a HX, ANTEC NEW TRUEPOWER or XFX.

the harddrive is slow, swap for a samsungF3 or seagate barracuda 7200.12

the GTX460 is much faster graphics card.

ash7jar · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:09

ok thanks will look into that

raikesi · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:10

get the gtx460 1gb tho

jakesnake · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:11

i agree with stulid on samsung f3 and 460.

personally i would keep the 850W to have extra muscle in reserve incase you sli the 460 or other future cards. the corsair 850 would also be trustworthy enough i would think to carry over to a future build.

goodluck

Jony27 · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:12

the cm-690 II advanced is on "this week only" offer

Boozebeard · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:14

Shouldn't he get a full copy of windows 7 instead of an oem one?

stulid · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:15

the motherboard doesn't do symetrical sli/crossfire, so a drop in psu is well founded.

jakesnake · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:21

stulid said:
the motherboard doesn't do symetrical sli/crossfire, so a drop in psu is well founded.

i stand corrected.

i though an overclocked bundle would have a crossfire/sli board but i didnt check. my bad.

drop the psu then like stulid said if your 100% on the bundle.
if you decide to pick a different board then think about the 850w

ash7jar · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:22

No i see that that the mobo dont do sli/crossfire

but it was part of the Overclocked Bundles, praps not the best mobo?

stulid · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:27

how many people actually go dual gpus, a bet very few.

that bundle is very fast, and just forget about any thoughts of sli or crossfire.

jakesnake · 2 Oct 2010 at 19:37

stulid said:
how many people actually go dual gpus, a bet very few.

that bundle is very fast, and just forget about any thoughts of sli or crossfire.

the main reason behind the great press about the 460 lately is SLi. as a single card its still decent but over the hill.

im choosing to sli 460s instead of a single 480. i dont like the power and heat rumblings of 470 480 and certainly dont want 2 of them. so x2 460s should do until 490 500 or wotever they r going to be called.

just sumthing for op to think about from another angle.

Nelson Santos · 2 Oct 2010 at 21:35

What is the difference for induvidual price for the core i5 OC combo? Its easy to OC yourself, and might save some money. The GPU for the price of budget is poor IMO.