Spec check please

[celliott]

Mate saw a complete PC (Well just the base) for £270 inc post on the bay, using a Pentium D CPU and a cheap nasty ECS board.

I said I could do better, I think this is ideal however will the PSU be sufficient?

Abit AN52 nForce 520 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (WD1600AAJS)
Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ 2.20GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Point of View GeForce 8600 GT "MotoGP Edition" 512MB DDR2 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Comes to £276 inc post, if you have any suggestions it cant go higher than £276.

Thanks

 

[Jimbo.UK]

What does he want the computer for ?

i think the PSU will be pushed to its Max... might be worth popping your spec into a PSU calculator, Antec's is pretty good.

 

[celliott]

To play test drive unlimited, although I want to try and do something which will last.

 

[Jimbo.UK]

Always tricky with such a low budget, it will last but wont be able to handle new games and such that are coming out...

Also you havent accounted for a OS in that price... Perhaps Linux for free.. or you have another solution

All in all, i dont think you can do better than you have done, for the price.. but i would check the PSU calc .. as i said, it might be pushing it a bit

 

[OzZie]

Sorry to hijack, but i am builing a new computer for a pal next week and it has the same spec (apart from a E2180 and 500gb SATA HDD) but only a 2400 Pro. Will the Earthwatt 380w be ok (general browsing, no gaming etc).

I think its more than enough personally but wanted to check.

 

[Jimbo.UK]

yea, i think a 2400 pro should be fine under than PSU. I Believe people have these running on 280watt. along with the rest of the system! pretty good low power.