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whitejackal

whitejackal

whitejackal

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Hello,

Im thinking of upgrading my seriously old pc. Ive got about £500 to spend.
These are the parts I was thinking about and was wondering if there a good choice.

Argon Extreme Intel Core i3 540 3.06GHz @ 4.20GHz Overclocked Bundle (£240.73)

HIS IceQ 5 Turbo ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB (£111.61)

Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1TB internal Hard Drive SATAII 32MB (£40.99) [amazon]

Windows 7 Home Premium Full (£80-100) [diff sites]

Need help choosing a power supply, would a 650W do it?
Any comments are welcome.

Thanks
 
Yeh a 650W should be more than capable. I would definitely swap that ATI 5770 over for a Nvidia 460, no questions. I would probably go for a Antec Truepower 650W PSU (Seasonic built), you can get them for around 65. Yesterday special had it down to 59, so you just missed out.
 
HIS IceQ 5 Turbo ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB (£111.61)
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I don't think 5770 is the best bang per pound at that price point.

460GTX or 6850 perhaps.

Need help choosing a power supply, would a 650W do it?
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And then some, the i3 is the low end of Intel's range and only has a TDP of 73W, a midrange graphics card will use about 150W. Bottom line is you'd only need the 650W supply if you go for multi video cards. You could easily go down a couple of hundred watts.

I'm assuming you mean a 650W 'Quality' branded supply and not some cheap unbranded rubbish 650W (more like 350W) PSU.
 
so i see david, youve come to the i5 side after realising that i7 is no better than i5 for gaming :D
the corsair cx420 or cx 500 should power that system fine
and as mentioned swap the gpu for gtx 460/hd 6850 if you can stretch
 
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