Spec Check !

[Vogon]

Ok guys, its been a while out of the loop for me, but a mate wants a new pc/monitor and gave me a budget of £620 absolute max including OS.

We have decided on Win 7 home premium 64 bit, so that leaves me £540 for the hardware, less £100 on a 20" monitor so I have £440 to build the tower.

Pc will be used for gaming (mostly WOW) and general use.

I think best bet for the money is:

AM3 770 mobo
X2 240
4gb 1333 DDR3
ATI 5770 1gb

with a suitable PSU, HDD, DVD Drive, Case, PSU, mouse and keyboard I can scrape that in budget.

Would you say thats the best option for the budget, and if not what would you build ?

 

[Vogon]

It is a tough budget, but I managed to stick to it with:

Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Mid Tower Case
Western Digital WD2500AAJS 250GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 8MB Cache - OEM
Samsung SH-S223 22X DVD±RW/RAM/DL Serial ATA Black Bare Drive - OEM
Microsoft Wired Desktop 600
AMD Athlon X2 240 2.8GHz Socket AM3 2MB Cache Retail
MSI 770-C45 AMD 770 AM3 DDR3 ATX Motherboard
OCZ 400W Stealth XStream PSU
HIS HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E Graphics Card
Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz Memory Kit CL9

That came to £437
Add a monitor @ £90
and Win 7 @ £82
Total £609

Still looking to see were I can improve things ....

 

[Vogon]

Asus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CuCore 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £127.98
OCZ Obsidian 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 Dual Channel £89.99
Acer P193W 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor Acer P193W 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor £84.98
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit - OEM £81.99
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-ES3 MA770 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £64.99
AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 240 2.80GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail£49.98
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD321HJ) £32.99
OCZ StealthXStream 400w Silent Power Supply £32.99
Xigmatek Asgard Midi Tower Case £28.99
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
Logitech S96 PS/2 Optical Wheel Mouse Black - OEM £5.99
Logitech Internet 350 Keyboard - OEM £5.99

Sub Total : £529.25
FREE SHIPPING (DPD Next Day)
VAT : £92.62

Total : £621.87

Close as I can get at OcUK