New system - £400 ?

wiggyuk · 2 Apr 2007 at 09:40

Morning all,

Was looking for some advise I am currently considering selling my PC to my brother and building a new one for myself, firstly I will list my exsisting PC and then hopefully can you guys tell me how much my PC is worth and also if I could build a better one for about £400 - £500.

My PC
P4 3.2 (Northwood)
Asus P4c800-E Deluxe (M/Board)
2 x 256mb PC3200 Corsair CMX256A-3200C2
2 x 512mb PC3200
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
Pioneer DVR-110
Sony DVD Player
Zalman (CNPS7000B-CU) Super Flower Cooler AMD and P4

Thanks all.

Just to add I mainly use my PC for encoding & burning films and also playing games such as FM07, command and conquer, Tiger Woods but I would like to play other demanding games if I wanted to.

Will_3rd · 2 Apr 2007 at 09:49

Can't tell you how much it is worth you will have to go to MM for that.

As for a system for £400-500

Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £87.99
(£103.39) £87.99
(£103.39)
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160HJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM Samsung SpinPoint P HD160HJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
(£41.11)
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £18.99
(£22.31) £18.99
(£22.31)
OcUK GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail OcUK GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £56.99
(£66.96) £56.99
(£66.96)
Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU £51.99
(£61.09) £51.99
(£61.09)
Sub Total : £415.93
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 : £74.70
Total : £501.58

semi-pro waster · 2 Apr 2007 at 10:13

I can't really see any way to improve on what Will_3rd has specified there so I won't even try, that system will provide you with a nice jump in performance on what is quite a tight budget for a full system.

wiggyuk · 2 Apr 2007 at 10:27

Cheers guys.

If you I dont have the money to spend straight away on a new rig like some of the richer members on here

is it worth buying a part each month, for e.g buy a CPU then the month later the M/Board then a month later the Memory ?

Will_3rd · 2 Apr 2007 at 11:06

Would buy it at the same time mate, might save cash that way as well if any of items are on TWO or go down in price.

-Nick- · 2 Apr 2007 at 11:51

what i did was upgrade to like the asrock 775 dual VSTA and c2d e6300 then i update to ddr2 memory a couple of weeks later, and then got a temp pci-e card so i could upgrade to my ds4 lol. havn't got the new gfx card yet cause i got a dell 20" wfp