Simple upgrade spec check pls...

[Gilbern74]

Hi
I have put a few components together to make an upgrade for under £500 which I hope to future-proof me for about 4 years...
Can someone please tell if these go together ok (the NEC DVD is just an extra)?? Or are there better combinations you can suggest??

I'm not sure if the graphics card is any good at all, or the mobo, but I don't play games very often - if I do it's usually flight sims, Medal of Honour or Battlefield. Mainly to be used for web, office and graphics/video editing.
To go with this I have a Q-tec 400w psu, my case is fine, a 160GB IDE HD which I would upgrade in a year or so.


CD-027-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Beige) - OEM (CD-027-NE)
£21.95 £21.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£183.95 £183.95
MB-101-AS Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-101-AS)
£64.95 £64.95
MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL)
£48.95 £48.95
GX-109-SP Sapphire ATI Radeon X1300 Hyper Memory 512MB DDR2 AVIVO TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-109-SP)
£71.95 £71.95
Subtotal £391.75
VAT £68.56
Total £460.31

 

[Gilbern74]

Thanks a lot for the reply. Will finalise my order tomorrow.

 

[Gilbern74]

Under statement of the century. We don't call em 'Q-bang's for nothing.
And aren't you the guy who's system just blew up?
I'd have thought you'd have had enough of fireworks...

Been running the Q-Tec for 4 years (constantly, apart from about 3 wks a year when I go on holidays) with no problems. So not going to worry about it now!

 

[Gilbern74]

Highly recommend you get a new PSU. Those components might require more than 400w and better AMPS on the rails, especially +12V. Besides that, just do a simple search of Q-Tec here on this forum and you will see the reality. Other PSU’s makes do fail, but they do not take out all your other components with them!

ok, point taken. Is there a psu for around £50 - £60 that's recommended?
I've seen one for £25 on another site - ADVANCE EA 550w PSU - which sounds cheap but would prefer to buy a proven make/model.

 

[Gilbern74]

ah-ha, I've seen the Hiper in This Week Only for £41.95+vat which should do the trick.

So I've settled on this spec for an upgrade:

MY-066-CS Corsair 1GB DDR2 Value Select PC4200 Dual Channel Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT533D2) (MY-066-CS)
£49.95 £49.95
MB-101-AS Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-101-AS)
£64.95 £64.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£183.95 £183.95
CD-027-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Beige) - OEM (CD-027-NE)
£21.95 £21.95
GX-118-SP Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 GTO 512MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-118-SP)
£89.95 £89.95
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£15.95 £15.95
CA-009-HP Hiper HPU-4M580 Type R 580W ATX2.2 PSU - Black (CA-009-HP)
£41.95 £41.95
Subtotal £468.65
VAT £82.02
Total £550.67

£50 over my budget but will have to bear it...

 

[Gilbern74]

//edit that system looks fine, you technically don't need the Arctic Freezer as you are getting a retail CPU so you could save ~£20 there if you really wanted.

Much obliged to you for pointing that out! Thanks