Spec me £400

narley

narley

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Hi all,

I'm looking for a £400 spec for a base unit only, seeing as though my £30 bargain Pentium 3 Monster has just died! :eek:

what i've already got:

HDD
Keyboard / Mouse
Monitor
Speakers
O/S

I'm not sure ill be overclocking straight away but as time goes on it'll probably be something ill be looking into.

Its been a long while since ive built from scratch so any help and advice is much appreciated !!!!!
 
Ive come up with this: SPEC

Its a bit spendy tbh and i do need it closer to the £400 mark so any suggestions about where im going wrong and what the best compromises would be made would help a shed load.

cheers
 
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He said closer to the £400 mark, not the £500 mark ;)

I've got it down a bit;

Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GB24GB6400C4DC)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail
Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ)
Asus ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Antec NSK 6580 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W Earth Watts PSU

Total : £425.22

Reason for the more expensive mobo (£10 more) is because I am pretty sure the CPU will work out of the box. I am not sure if the P35 board you chose will support the CPU without a bios update.
 
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lol yeah, but he did add in the optical drive :) - by the way i do have a dvd RW - sorry!

is the mobo worth the extra dosh? and whats the difference between the Asus and HIS card?
 
Nothing really the HIS was the cheapest card at the time, just get the cheapest 4850 which is currently the asus.
And whatever you do definitely get the antec 300 case and corsair power supply.You will be overclocking in the future that 430 watt antec power supply is just not up to the task for future upgrades and overclocking I'd doubt it would even run your spec full load for more than a year.
I only specced that because yours was £485.
 
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narley said:
is the mobo worth the extra dosh?
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Yes, unless you have another 775 socket CPU you can put in the asus motherboard and flash it to the latest bios so it supports the newer CPU's? (I could be wrong, and it might support it out the box).

narley said:
..and whats the difference between the Asus and HIS card?
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The Asus one is on this week only and its slightly cheaper, only reason I selected it.
 
thanks for all the help.

the £425 spec is sooo tempting ! :D

why should i get the PSU and case separately is the Earth watts one dicing with death?

*Edit* oops sorry i got my head up my ars* it seems ! you adressed this point earlier :)

i would probably be upgrading in the future so im just gonna change the items in me basket and see how it pans out.
 
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well it's 23A on the 12v rail combined I'd imagine the above rig will require that alone just on bootup which actually does require more juice than an idling machine.
For the sake of spending £16 more you will have a much much better case and a much much better more future proof QUIETER power supply with a 5 year warranty.
The case will be quieter too.
 
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Well it probably will run it but when you start overclocking things it's just nice to have some headroom + it has an 80mm fan which is bound to be noisy so overall I think £16 extra is worth it for the better psu and case.
 
so what it boils down to is this : SPEC

is there anything else ill need to put this together? the last thing i need when i get all the bits is to find ive forgotten something !!!!! :D
 
I think you've nailed it. I personally would add a 3rd party CPU cooler like the arctic freezer 7 but as your on a budget I would make do :)

I cant believe the freezer 7 has gone up to £17 now! I paid £12 for it last november :eek:
 
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