Pc for a friend :)

stickroad · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:10

My friend wants to get a pc for around £1100 he wont be overclocking so how does this setup look?

CPU - Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 £217.36 inc VAT

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 £84.59 inc VAT

Memory - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 £176.24 inc VAT

Graphics Card - BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB £397.14 inc VAT

Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB £55.80 inc VAT

Case - Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium £57.56 inc VAT

Power Supply - Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 £70.49 inc VAT

Total : £1,092.01

Slinwagh · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:14

My only suggestion would be to look at the Seagate 7200.10 hard disk range and maybe another motherboard.

The abit board has a funny layout, there are SATA and PATA ports near alongside the PCI slot.

Other than that go for it.

stickroad · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:15

would you mind suggestion a motherboard for under 100

Thanks

mishima · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:15

Nice spec there, I would change the AB9 for the Asus p5b, has a better layout and is quite popular on this forum.

If you could alter the tower for a cheaper one, you could get a E6600 which is the next chip up from the 6400 and gives you more cache!

mishima · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:18

stickroad said:
would you mind suggestion a motherboard for under 100

Thanks

Gigabyte S3 is the same price as the AB9. Thats suppose to be a decent board too!

Andelusion · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:21

Since you're not overclocking I'd say go for a cheaper case (I recommend the Lian-Li PC7 PLUS), go for a Corsair 520watt PSU too, with what you've saved you could get an E6600.

stickroad · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:44

Hows this, changed it in first post.

Will that 520 watt be ok for the GTX card and the E6600 CPU?

Thanks

Andelusion · 11 Jan 2007 at 11:45

Yeah they're apparently very good quality CPUs that'll be fine for 1 8800GTX. If you were ever going to go SLI you'd probably want something beefier though.

mishima · 11 Jan 2007 at 12:02

stickroad said:
Hows this, changed it in first post.

Will that 520 watt be ok for the GTX card and the E6600 CPU?

Thanks

Good decision, although it says on OcUK "Finally 500W minimum for PSU and 600W+ is recommended." If I was you I would get something bigger, you don't wanna be just safe!