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Tabasco

Tabasco

Tabasco

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Is this good for the price?

Required Qty Price Each Total
Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe **WiFi Edition** Nforce 590 Socket AM2 SLI Motherboard £115.74
Retail Boxed AMD AM2 Athlon 64 3000 512K !!!REQUIRES AM2 MOTHERBOARD!!! £39.95
(X2) 533MHz 240Pin 512MB PC4200 DDR2 RAM DIMM 1.8V £24.98 [£49.96]
******** 7300GT 256MB PCI-E VGA, DVI, TVO £45.83
550W ATX Power Supply for AMD, P3 and P4 mainboards 24Pin £18.80

SubTotal: £270.28


Optional
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250Gb 16Mb Cache Hard Disk Drive SATAII 300MB/s <8.9ms 7200rpm - OEM £47.08
Sony Black AW-G170AB2 Dual Layer 18X DVD+/-R/RW 12X DVD RAM Burner OEM £21.14
Case £70.00

Sub Total: £138.22


Total: £408.50
 
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Whats the PC for?
Thats a very slow CPU to be buying new.. tbh if you dont need a decent processor you might be better off with a celeron or something. Or if you go socket 939 you can get much more power for the money.
 
You'd be better getting a cheap C2D chip and motherboard. It would offer you much better performance even at stock. AMD chips are rubbish don't invest in them! :D That PSU looks rather dangerous too!
 
This would be ten times better even at stock. You could probably get 3GHz+ out of this if you overclocked too. Going down the AMD route is a bad decision I would go for a core 2 duo system. Like this:

Intel Core 2 DUO E4400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £81.99
(£96.34)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £94.99
(£111.61)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99
(£88.11)


Shipping : £8.25
Total : £305.76
 
From that thread it looks like a new PSU isn't a bad option but don't make the same mistake again and get a cheap one, decent PSUs tend to start from around £40 up.

As for the AM2 specification above it is hopelessly mismatched, you have an expensive motherboard but with a really cheap CPU. mishima has given you a much better specification with double the Ram and a much faster CPU for only £30 more. :)
 
yeah i see your point.. the only reason i wanted to get the £115 board.. was because it gave me the chance to upgrade well into the future.. so i hear.. well the other board that mishima was saying about probley does the same.. was just a friend who said get this board its great.. ect.. can run 2x SLI @ x16.. and he showed me an £85 board its still good.. but with SLI it ran them both at x8... .. but if on own.. would run 1 at x16
 
Hello mishima if your still there can u list me a complete system.. everything u put already and include.. erm HDD , Grahpics card , PSU , Case , ect.. i got monitor.. and keyboard ect.. also trying to keep at the budget theme.... doesnt look like i need to budget with the prices at the moment
 
Hi there,

I'm still here :) how much do you have for the graphics card? What size monitor do you have? Any preference for case colour?
 
ah ok i got 19" monitor TFT.. is a Hanns-G so supports up to 1280 by 1024 res
i would say £100 on graphics card would be ok.. and black case pls

Ah also i would say £400-500 budget on this system ether way.. would be better than what i had
 
I'll have to leave the spec to you as I have to go work now, spec him a good one ;) I was thinking of an Enermax 535W PSU, Samsung Spinpoint HDD, need to know what size monitor and rest of budget for GPU, the Akasa Zen would probably be ideal for case although he may want something with better build quality.
 
Tabasco said:
Ok thanks mishima erm ive never used the ATI cards so.. i may just stick with the geforce kinda know what im getting..
Click to expand...

yeah a slower one than ati... im a massive nvidia fan ive never had ati but if there was a faster ati card for the money i know what id get

also mishima i had the 535 psu in my spec for him
 
Since I haven't seen a full system in here yet I figured I'd put one together from a few posts and my own ideas, just over the £500 but you do get a good overall system which will allow some overclocking. :)

Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU £58.99
(£69.31) £58.99
(£69.31)
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
(£76.36)
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£21.14) £17.99
(£21.14)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £89.99
(£105.74) £89.99
(£105.74)
Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £42.99
(£50.51) £42.99
(£50.51)
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £92.99
(£109.26) £92.99
(£109.26)
Sub Total : £427.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
Vat : £76.80
Total : £515.68
 
semi-pro waster said:
Since I haven't seen a full system in here yet I figured I'd put one together from a few posts and my own ideas, just over the £500 but you do get a good overall system which will allow some overclocking. :)

Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU £58.99
(£69.31) £58.99
(£69.31)
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
(£76.36)
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99
(£21.14) £17.99
(£21.14)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £89.99
(£105.74) £89.99
(£105.74)
Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM £42.99
(£50.51) £42.99
(£50.51)
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £92.99
(£109.26) £92.99
(£109.26)
Sub Total : £427.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
Vat : £76.80
Total : £515.68
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couldnt for the life of me get that gpu in there
nice spec

always forget how good antec psu's are and use seperate psu and case for specs thats why
 
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if your intending to overclock you could go with something like this...

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £89.99
(£105.74) £89.99

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99

Sony AW-G170AB2 18x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer - (Black) OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99

Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU £51.99
(£61.09) £51.99

Sub Total : £431.93
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
Vat : £77.50
Total : £520.38
 
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