PSU advice

Personally Id go for the Corsair 520W. That way if you decide to upgrade your graphics card at a later date you won’t need to buy a new PSU. It’s not that much more expensive really.
 
You could get away with any of the Antec case+psu combos (ie the NSK 4480).

Can I just comment on that initial bundle though. If you bought it all separately and instead got the 2gb of Geil pc2-6400 that is currently on deal of the week, it would only be £14 more. I think that is well worth it to get double the RAM.

I would also be inclined to suggest that your friend considers something like the Abit IP35-E or Asus P5K SE. The chipset that the motherboard in the bundle is based on (945P) is I think 2 generations out of date now.

For graphics you might consider OCUK's own 8600 gt. I guess it depends how tight the budget is.
 
Kobrakai said:
Personally Id go for the Corsair 520W. That way if you decide to upgrade your graphics card at a later date you won’t need to buy a new PSU. It’s not that much more expensive really.
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What card would he be upgradign to which requires the 520w?

The current trend is a decrease in Die size. You can run a GTX on a 450w. I beleive the current cards use under 300w dont they?
 
They are looking to spend around £300 so it is quite a tight budget, thanks for the replies, they do not need a monitor or any accessories such as keyboard, speakers etc, so maybe it's possible to find a better spec at about that price?
 
This spec is far superior as it will allow the cpu to be overclocked. i beleive on the stock cooler it should reach 2.5ghz (not possitive). But with the overclockable mobo there is room to buy a heat sink later.

You will need 64bit os to be able to see all 4gb but even on 32bit youll still get 3.2 of it and it gives you scope for upgrading that later.

The graphics card is a lot more powerful and worth paying that extra 30 quid for it.

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8igdave said:
What card would he be upgradign to which requires the 520w?

The current trend is a decrease in Die size. You can run a GTX on a 450w. I beleive the current cards use under 300w dont they?
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he was going by the assumption that the OP may want an ati card in the future and those in general always suck up more power than the nvidia counterparts.

but yes 8800gt has lower power consumption then current gts so 450w corsair would do the job more than enough.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
he was going by the assumption that the OP may want an ati card in the future and those in general always suck up more power than the nvidia counterparts.

but yes 8800gt has lower power consumption then current gts so 450w corsair would do the job more than enough.
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Can you read his mind?

Also in a rewview i just read of the GT its achualy 10w more on load but the same minimum. So id say pritty much the same power consumption but for a lot more power :p
 
Yeah sorry do need case as well as HDD, so as you can see £300 budget is a bit tight, not too worried about upgrading in the future, its for one of his kids just wants a PC mainly for internet but hopefully can play games with things turned down for about that price if at all possible.
 
Well here's my best effort, with an optical drive included although you didn't specifically mention it:

Case & Psu - Antec NSK4480b + 380w earthwatts psu
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo e2140
Motherboard - Abit IL9 Pro
Memory - 2gb Geil pc2-6400 ddr2
Graphics card - OCUK 8600gt 256mb
Hard-drive - Samsung Spinpoint S 160gb sata
DVD Burner - Samsung 20x dvdrw sata black

That comes to £314.76 including shipping.

For about £15 more you could bump the motherboard up to something like the Abit IP35-E, or you could get a 512mb x1950pro, but then you're heading closer to a £350 total.
 
Cheers guys, and yeah forgot the optical drive doh, some nice combo's though so will speak to him and see if he can stretch the budget a bit more, thanks :)
 
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