Hi all,
It's been a number of years since I last built a PC and I'm in need of a little advice please.
My son has recently started college and would like a desktop system on which to do his college work and a little casual gaming, including World of Warcraft, I know WoW can be more than casual gaming but his mother will make sure his college work will not suffer. Anyway, I digress, I told him that I'd sort him a system and I dug this beast, from which I'm typing, out of the loft as I dabbled myself in WoW back in 2007 and this system ran it well enough - AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 1 GB RAM, 128 Mb FX 5200 gfx.
Oh what a fool I was to think that this system had any chance of fulfilling his needs and after his observation that this system is probably older than him, my son decided to decline the offer.
So, after promising him a system I have a few options, shop bought new, second hand, self built, etc. As I am unfortunately working on a very tight budget, £400 max *cough*, I have priced up a few bits for the self built option.
Any and all useful advice on this matter will be greatly appreciated and taken on board, thanks in advance, spec is :-
AMD Piledriver FX-4 Quad Core 4350 4.20GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail - £76.99 (or AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail - £79.99 ?)
Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard - £55.99
MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £65.99
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD - £41.95
Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit - £71.99
Aerocool GT Black Edition Mid tower - Black - £23.99
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black - £49.99
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) - £77.99
LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £13.99
Total = £478.87 (too much for my liking but manageable, just)
Any thoughts before I click the "Buy" button? Intel didn't seem an option with working on a budget, but I am a lot out of date with tech. Thanks for any advice!
It's been a number of years since I last built a PC and I'm in need of a little advice please.
My son has recently started college and would like a desktop system on which to do his college work and a little casual gaming, including World of Warcraft, I know WoW can be more than casual gaming but his mother will make sure his college work will not suffer. Anyway, I digress, I told him that I'd sort him a system and I dug this beast, from which I'm typing, out of the loft as I dabbled myself in WoW back in 2007 and this system ran it well enough - AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 1 GB RAM, 128 Mb FX 5200 gfx.
Oh what a fool I was to think that this system had any chance of fulfilling his needs and after his observation that this system is probably older than him, my son decided to decline the offer.
So, after promising him a system I have a few options, shop bought new, second hand, self built, etc. As I am unfortunately working on a very tight budget, £400 max *cough*, I have priced up a few bits for the self built option.
Any and all useful advice on this matter will be greatly appreciated and taken on board, thanks in advance, spec is :-
AMD Piledriver FX-4 Quad Core 4350 4.20GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail - £76.99 (or AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail - £79.99 ?)
Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard - £55.99
MSI HD 7770 GHz Edition 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card - £65.99
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM **SINGLE PLATTER** HDD - £41.95
Kingston HyperX Fury White 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-14900C10 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit - £71.99
Aerocool GT Black Edition Mid tower - Black - £23.99
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black - £49.99
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) - £77.99
LG GH24NSB0 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £13.99
Total = £478.87 (too much for my liking but manageable, just)
Any thoughts before I click the "Buy" button? Intel didn't seem an option with working on a budget, but I am a lot out of date with tech. Thanks for any advice!
So, new spec is as follows, again, any helpful advice appreciated: