Spec Check

[p4radox]

Ok, this looks like a good spec to me for the price. Going to be building 2 of these in the next week or so. Any feedback welcome

Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU (CA-052-AN)
£34.95 £34.95
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£136.95 £136.95
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA)
£34.95 £34.95
Asus DVD-E616P1 DVD-ROM (Black) - Retail (CD-018-AS)
£12.50 £12.50
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 LA PC2-5300 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-5400PHU2-2GBLA) (MY-012-GS)
£91.95 £91.95
Asrock ConroeXFire-eSATA2 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-003-AK)
£49.95 £49.95
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN)
£114.95 £114.95
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR)
£14.95 £14.95
Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (KB-060-LG)
£27.95 £27.95
OcUK Value Hanns-G HW191D 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-017-OK)
£119.95 £119.95
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS)
£51.95 £51.95
Subtotal £691.00
VAT £120.93
Total £811.93

 

[p4radox]

It's not for me, but the guy wants a 19" monitor. People in Monitors seem to like them.

PSU calculators say that system will only use 290W at full load so hopefully 380 will be plenty.

Overclocking is not a priority, but the board will reach 300 fsb which i think will give a nice boost. I was tempted by the Gigabyte DS3 but the budget is tight.

DVDRW is not needed - purely a gaming pc.

Thanks

 

[p4radox]

I appreciate the comments:

I'm going to go with the Antec PSU for now, they've always been fine for me before.

A 512 card is £80 more though

 

[p4radox]

the 6300 comes with a fan and the chips run cool so you don't need to buy a new CPU cooler

- Supplied with Intel referance heatsink & fan

Maybe spend more and get the segate 250 hard drive with 16mb cache, will improve game loading times.


I've seen quite a few dead pixel complaints about that monitor, you might want to check that out.

I'm getting an OEM chip, and silence is nice - hence the Arctic Cooler.

The Seagate HDD looks good, but it's another £20 and on an already tight budget I think the Samsung will be fine.

Thanks