PC For Under £400

Woody_FX · 6 Jun 2007 at 17:16

Spec My Pc for £400ish please!

Hello,

I'm looking at a PC for around the £400 mark and come up with this...

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.86ghz Socket 775 FSB800 2MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Seagate ST3250620AS 250GB SATAII/300 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM
Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Midi Tower - With 450W SmartPower2.0 PSU
Sapphire RADEON X1950PRO 512MB GDDR3 DUAL DVI TVO PCI-E
OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 PLATINUM XTC with LIFETIME WARRANTY
MSI P965 Neo-F SKT775 Conroe ready PCI-E SATA 7.1 channel audio ATX

Was wondering what you guys thought and what could be altered to get better value for money, I was told thats the best CPU to get cheap to overclock and the MB supports it well.

I don't need Disk drives or anything like that, just what you see there.

Any help would be greatly appriciated

Thanks

Dave

Ronaldo · 6 Jun 2007 at 17:17

take the competitor name off quickly

Jaffa_Cake · 6 Jun 2007 at 17:18

What resolution will you be using it at?

512mb is not nessicery unless you are playing over 1280*1024, it will actually slow the card down having more memory.

Woody_FX · 6 Jun 2007 at 17:19

Well I have a nice 21inch Monitor so maybe more than that.

Dunno the Rez I'll be playing games at, does it make a big difference?
I don't really know much about this stuff!

Woody_FX · 6 Jun 2007 at 17:29

I'd probably be playing games like CSS, Oblivion, Stalker etc.

Woody_FX · 6 Jun 2007 at 18:28

So would you guys not really change anything about it?
Or did you think the Gcard thing is an important change?

Woody_FX · 7 Jun 2007 at 00:28

Umm could you look at this please cos I wanna buy it tomorrow!

Sorry for being pushy

stickroad · 7 Jun 2007 at 00:34

How much is that lot coming too?

Ill see what i can do, once the page loads up that is.

Woody_FX · 7 Jun 2007 at 00:36

It came to about £400, I think you can get it all for £380

OpenToSuggestions · 7 Jun 2007 at 00:40

i think the sonata 3 is out now? the sonata2 i own and is great value for money but my door snapped off very very easily. I hear the new one has much better design

Woody_FX · 7 Jun 2007 at 00:48

I don't have much idea really, I'm relying on you guys to tell me what to get!
I was specced that PC and told it was pretty much the best I could get for the money cos the MOBO and CPU go so well together for overclocking.

Mad_Jay · 7 Jun 2007 at 01:09

Jaffa_Cake said:
512mb is not nessicery unless you are playing over 1280*1024, it will actually slow the card down having more memory.

Is that true ? I have a 512mb X1900XT and im running at 1280 x 1024 :confused:

t31os · 7 Jun 2007 at 01:11

Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC) GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC) £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £79.99
(£93.99) £79.99
(£93.99)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £66.99
(£78.71) £66.99
(£78.71)
Sub Total : £331.95
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £59.83
Total : £401.73

If you can stretch the budget a little, add a better cooler...

Crowze · 7 Jun 2007 at 09:46

Mad_Jay said:
Is that true ? I have a 512mb X1900XT and im running at 1280 x 1024

Not to my knowledge - this is a throwback to the 9800 Pro 128MB vs 256MB, where they used lower-clocked memory to save costs.