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Sirrel Squirrel

Sirrel Squirrel

Sirrel Squirrel

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Just speccing out a PC for a friend, his budget is £350. It is mainly going to be used for email, Internet and a bit of minor Photoshop work.

Does the below look ok;


AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4100 Black Edition 3.60Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail with FREE Deus Ex PC Game £89.99
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £77.99
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard £35.99
Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 '80 Plus' Power Supply (CMPSU-430CXUKV2) £34.99
BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £29.99
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £23.99
Akasa Internal Media Card Reader (AK-ICR-07) £6.98

Total - £299.92
 
Would rather go with an i3 and Z68/77 motherboard. Bulldozer is slower, hotter and consumes more power. With a Z77 motherboard there is plenty of upgradability to a Sandy Bridge i5/i7 or Ivy Bridge CPU's.

More RAM, 8GB is just so cheap, would be silly not to.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i3-2100 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £91.99
1 x Asus P8Z77-V LX Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £78.60
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) £77.99
1 x XFX Pro 450W Core Edition '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £41.99
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £29.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £29.99
Total : £350.54 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
The Corsair is a decent basic PSU, got one myself in a simple machine but found it developed an annoying capacitor whine which is particularly noticable when the system is powered down. For the sake of a fiver I would go with the XFX. The older CX400W was a decent PSU with a total of 360W of the 12V rails and made by Seasonic but the newer CX430 (and CX430W V2) is made by CWT (Chanel Well Tech) and has 336W on the +12V rails. Don't get me wrong, it's still a very good budget power supply with 3 years warranty and 80 Plus efficiency but the capacitor whine has put me off them a little. (Although mine is the V1).

XFX is made by Seasonic, again 80 Plus efficiency, 5 years warranty, 408W on +12V rails.
 
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