Quick spec check

[welshdragon]

Right, hoping people can scrutinise this build. My mate wants cheap and chearful ie £400 max for the hardware. Looking at this spec is this the best I could do?

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5830 Extreme 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK Exclusive** £85.98

AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 840 "95W Edition" 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £79.99

Coolermaster Elite 430 Windowed Case - Black (with 500w Elite Power PSU) £64.99

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000524AS) £43.99

G.Skill RipJawsX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-4GBXL) £39.98

ASRock N68C-S UCC GeForce 7025 (Socket AM3/AM2+) DDR2/DDR3 microATX Motherboard £33.98

Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99

Grand total £400.10 (gone up £30 since mid-week, grrrr)

 

[Hydrogoo]

Looks pretty good, only thing you might want to look at is that you make sure the case takes the graphics card. Other than that its a pretty good budget machine

 

[Rexton]

Looks good, and the case should fit that card fine. Only thing I'd suggest would be to change the dvd drive, heard a couple of people are having trouble with that one (maybe just someone with bad luck)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-060-SO

Edit: Also, might aswell get an F3.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA

 

[welshdragon]

done and done. cheers for the info guys. Ordering saturday for him. looking forward to a budget build project

 

[Hydrogoo]

Looks good, and the case should fit that card fine. Only thing I'd suggest would be to change the dvd drive, heard a couple of people are having trouble with that one (maybe just someone with bad luck)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-060-SO

Edit: Also, might aswell get an F3.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA

Actually +1 for the F3, You probably won't notice the difference in SATA2 to SATA3 with a mechanical drive.