Spec Check £1200

chimponarope

chimponarope

chimponarope

Associate
Joined
25 Dec 2005
Posts
468
Hi

My Dad's asked me to build him a new PC to replace his 2500 Barton.

He's got £1200 to spend, needs to include monitor (20" widescreen preferably), keyboard, mouse, and Vista.

I came up with this:

E6300
Gigabyte DS3
2 GB Geil 6400 ULL
Dell E207WFP
BFG 8800 GTS 640MB
500w Enermax Liberty (since the Corsair is out of stock)
Seagate 7200.10 250GB
2* Samsung lighscribe SATA DVDRW's
Antec P180
Microsoft 1000 Wireless desktop
Microsoft Vista HP 64 bit

Total : £1,173.63

He's unlikely to overclock it, at least to start with.

Uses will be some gaming (by my brother), photo work, email, surfing and other general family use.

If any one has any suggestions to improve it please let me know, i'd like to try and get it ordered today if possible.
 
Force of habit I guess from creating cd backups 6 odd years ago!

Is the seasonic much better? Or have Enermax been having issues lately?

I've got the enermax in my own rig and so do 2 other friends and they've been solid, but they were all bought around the C2D release.
 
Seasonic are very good, but Enermax is fine as well.

CD to CD backups eh? could never get it working myself in the past, one drive is more then enough these days I would think.
 
Naw I'm gonna take the other seat - 2 CD drives is defo a plus, especially if you back things up occasionally :)

I don't like wireless but that's because I'm a fogey... I just trust wires more :p

Looks like a sweet setup!
 
Will_3rd said:
Seasonic are very good, but Enermax is fine as well.

CD to CD backups eh?
Click to expand...

I'll probably stick with the Enermax with it being ATX 2.2 and £10 cheaper. I also know it works fine with the P180 having them myself.

CD to CD = put the back up in the car so the original can stay in the box at home and not get wrecked/stolen :)

Thanks for the help guys, always better to get some other opinions when you're spending £1200 of your old mans hard earned money!

I'll get it ordered soon unless anyone has any other comments?
 
wellibob said:
Beware of vista 64 supporting games
Click to expand...

Thanks, but right now this is actually a plus point for my Dad! :eek:

My little brother has uni exams coming up and the gaming being limited would probably help him to actually do some studying :D Hopefully by the time his exams are done the drivers will be sorted and he can then play.
 
You shouldn't worry too much about game support right now for vista, running it myself I have seen no problems with it so far :D
Most likely problems will be drivers for hardware, but any big hardware manufacturer will have drivers out by now (except creative, *grumbles*).
Also, remember to download the new Nvidia drivers, they support vista :) .
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom