Spec for £840 :)

Craig321 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:34

Hi,

I just wondered what's the best I can get for £840?

Preferably 500GB+ HDD, 8800GTX, 2GB RAM (MUST!!)

I need CPU, graphic card, hard drive, motherboard, PSU, RAM, case.

It would also need to be future proof please. (e.g. quad core capable, a nice lot of SATA ports for RAID, SATA DVD drives etc)

EDIT

Oh, and I don't plan to overclock, but I'd like the option to be there please.

Thanks,
Craig.

Jay123 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:39

For £840 forget quad core, Your very lucky to get a e6600 , 500gb hdd and a gtx for £840.

Im doing a spec now.. Bare with me

Craig321 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:40

Jay123 said:
For £840 forget quad core, Your very lucky to get a e6600 , 500gb hdd and a gtx for £840.

Im doing a spec now.. Bare with me

Nooooo I don't want quad core to start with, just a motherboard that could handle it for future upgrades (if possible)

Thanks,
Craig.

Jay123 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:41

£840 the MAX?

Craig321 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:42

Jay123 said:
£840 the MAX?

At the moment, yeah.

I quickly put together one now: Gigabyte DS3, 2GB Corsair XMS, 500GB HDD, 8800GTX, 600W Seasonic for £826. It was just a quick one so they might not be best components. (That's why I asked here

)

supernova9 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:45

I know it's £15 over, but it gives you a P35 motherboard with DDR2&3
support for future overclocking.

Mad_Jay · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:47

Heres what i come up with..

All in at just under £840

Craig321 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:47

supernova9 said:
I know it's £15 over, but it gives you a P35 motherboard with DDR2&3
support for future overclocking.

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Nice, I like the DDR2/DDR3 compatible board :)

The case is a bit cheap for me, but I guess I could go for a case like that to start & buy a better one in the future :)

EDIT

Ooh, I see you just changed it :)

Thanks,
Craig.

Jay123 · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:49

The Spec is okay. But you also got to think about the cpu will bottleneck the cpu . The cpu you spec is very low (he isnt going to overclock) and it will course problems.

Heres mine :

truebluecfc · 5 Jun 2007 at 22:56

Jay123 · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:04

Guys im not being funny here. The Processors are TOO LOW for the gtx. He isnt going to overclock . Theres going to be a bottleneck on the Graphics card.

Please can somebody put it in there heads ?

Core 2 Duo E4400 Will not cut the butter ! 800FSB will do nothing for his machine or the GTX ... IF you was going for the E4400 then go for a GTS version of the 8800

truebluecfc · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:07

Jay123 said:
Guys im not being funny here. The Processors are TOO LOW for the gtx. He isnt going to overclock . Theres going to be a bottleneck on the Graphics card.

Please can somebody put it in there heads ?

Core 2 Duo E4400 Will not cut the butter ! 800FSB will do nothing for his machine or the GTX ... IF you was going for the E4400 then go for a GTS version of the 8800

Yes i know pal, he also said under £840 and a GTX, all we can do is give him what he wants and we can advise him saying increase your budget for a better CPU or get the GTS 640 so your CPU doesnt bottleneck your GFX Card which we've done.

Jay123 · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:12

truebluecfc said:
Yes i know pal, he also said under £840 and a GTX, all we can do is give him what he wants and we can advise him saying increase your budget for a better CPU or get the GTS 640 so your CPU doesnt bottleneck your GFX Card which we've done.

True, But i think he wont be happy if we gave him the low range cpu with the gtx .. I agree, Give him what he wants

truebluecfc · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:14

I never for some reason ever check the bundles, might be worthit having a look at some of those.

Craig321 · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:28

Ok guys, I give you permission to go to £900!

I got this with £889:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache, Retail

768Mb Leadtek 8800GTX PCI-E (x16), Mem 1800 MHz, GPU 575 MHz, 128 Streams, 2 x Dual Link DVI HDTV

500 Gb Seagate ST3500630AS Barracuda 7200.10, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ

2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP

Gigabyte GA 965P-DS3P, iP965, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, ATX

Akasa Eclipse-62 Midi Tower Case - Hi-End w/o PSU

520W Corsair HX Series Modular PSU, ATX, EPS12V, whisper quiet, 5 year warranty

Some stuff may be improved by different manufacturers/components (I'm not sure)

Thanks,
Craig.

Jay123 · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:35

Craig321 said:
Ok guys, I give you permission to go to £900!

I got this with £889:

Some stuff may be improved by different manufacturers/components (I'm not sure)

Thanks,
Craig.

You Havent included a dvd-re writer. do you need an os ?

To be honest your better with a GTS ( My Opinion )

Let me know

Craig321 · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:36

Jay123 said:
You Havent included a dvd-re writer. do you need an os ?

To be honest your better with a GTS ( My Opinion )

Let me know

I've got a DVD drive I can use which will do for now, I also have a spare XP

The DVD drive will be upgrading to a burner/reader after I've got the PC

Jay123 · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:36

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £58.99
(£69.31) £58.99
(£69.31)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £61.99
(£72.84) £61.99
(£72.84)
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS SuperClocked 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (640-P2-E825-AR) £229.99
(£270.24) £229.99
(£270.24)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £61.99
(£72.84) £61.99
(£72.84)
Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Black) £68.99
(£81.06) £68.99
(£81.06)
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £125.99
(£148.04) £125.99
(£148.04)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 32-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66G-00576) £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Sub Total : £732.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £130.88
Total : £878.74

Craig321 · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:39

Jay123 said:
Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £58.99
(£69.31) £58.99
(£69.31)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £61.99
(£72.84) £61.99
(£72.84)
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS SuperClocked 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (640-P2-E825-AR) £229.99
(£270.24) £229.99
(£270.24)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £61.99
(£72.84) £61.99
(£72.84)
Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Black) £68.99
(£81.06) £68.99
(£81.06)
Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £125.99
(£148.04) £125.99
(£148.04)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 32-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66G-00576) £47.99
(£56.39) £47.99
(£56.39)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Sub Total : £732.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £130.88
Total : £878.74

Looks good, but I'm not so sure about the GTS. I've heard the GTX series are quite a bit better?

truebluecfc · 5 Jun 2007 at 23:46

They are, although my 640GTS handles anything at the res 1680x1050 which you might want to think about, but yeh GTX is the best you can get.