Spec check - £500 box

Spathi · 18 May 2008 at 14:00

I pop on here every year or so to get a new PC and it's been a while since my last upgrade. Every one has served me well, so why stop?

I've got £500-600 to spend on a box for gaming and general work from home. Might be able to stretch a little further though. Was thinking about going with something along these lines:

Are there any obvious problems there?

I have another £400-500 to spend on a 24" monitor / OS / accessories. Bit clueless on which keyboard/mouse/screen are popular these days for gaming and general work - any suggestions?

Thanks guys.

Ben M · 18 May 2008 at 14:18

that looks good
you might want to put in a CPU cooler as well though, that said, wolfdales run pretty cool as they are. But you could get something that's quieter than a stock cooler, and your cpu can never be too cool =]

lunarwolf · 18 May 2008 at 15:12

not sure about RAM, RAM are the most fragile of all components. I wouldnt be cheap there. Personally I would go with a brand (corsair, Geil, OCZ).

Get a E7200 instead and you can clock it past 3.0ghz

Otherwise it seems to be the same componenets I am going to build for a friend

aproctor · 18 May 2008 at 15:30

e7200 and with the money saved buy a decent hsf.
Some branded ram i.e. lifetime warranty.
HDD w/ 32mb cache - poss stretch to a 750gb and it will serve you well.

apart from that not a bad little setup - doing the above will probably add £25 on.

Spathi · 18 May 2008 at 16:57

thanks guys, great advice, will place the order later