SPEC ME... £450 or Less

bigdm · 10 Jun 2011 at 14:09

Ok, after returning to OC’ers for a little advice on an upgrade, once again I have a NEW BUILD ITCH THAT NEEDS SCRATCHING!!

CURRENT OLD SETUP (don’t snigger with your ice cooled monsters)
CURRENT SPEC (windows 7 32bit)
Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-M56S-S3
Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.1GHZ
4GB (2x2gb) PC2-6400 DDR2 800mhz
GCARD XFX Radeon HD 4830 512mb
1x 1tb OS drive
2x 1tbs backup / storage drives

I DONT DO GAMING!
This machine is built for ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE
Photoshop / Illustrator / and a little Premier Video Editing
along with general day to day tasks, OFFICE and Internet

I would like to donate the old graphics card to save money on the new build (but that is the only reason, i require dual screen output) I am not fussed in regards to CPU / RAM Brands just want a good bang for my buck

DO REQUIRE! At least 6GB of ram would prefer 8GB and would ideally like SSD OS DRIVE

SPEC ME.. £450 or Less (can it be done)

THANKS IN ADVANCE!
(feels nice to be in the warm bussom of OC Forum, but feel this is going to upset my credit card provider)

stulid · 10 Jun 2011 at 14:13

Are your current harddrives IDE or SATA connection?

Do you have a decent case?

bigdm · 10 Jun 2011 at 14:20

SATA drives... COULD donate the case, but would rather not

bigdm · 10 Jun 2011 at 14:21

side note.. I am prepared to lose a drive to replace it with the SSD (incase the amount of sata connections is an issue)

stulid · 10 Jun 2011 at 14:25

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Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor £161.99
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Asrock Z68 PRO3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £105.98
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The motherboard has Lucid Virtu and SSD caching.

Included a new PSU, didnt think you would have a nice new one?

So keep your existing case (if it fits a ATX mobo?) and optical drive ( if its also SATA?)

paradisiac · 10 Jun 2011 at 14:32

would deffo go with stulids build, the one thing from your other thread though, is windows 7 64bit, that is obvs gunna be needed for the 8GB of ram

bigdm · 10 Jun 2011 at 14:45

Very nice build...
BUT.. prefer a new case and bigger SSD
(dont no if i am dreaming with that idea,
just not sure 30gb is going to cut the mustard)

YES, I do have spare SATA OPITICAL DRIVE

stulid · 10 Jun 2011 at 14:51

Hmmm.

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2400 3.10GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £145.99
(£121.66) £145.99
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Asus P8H67-M Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) ** B3 REVISION ** £80.40
(£67.00) £80.40
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OCZ Vertex 60GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (OCZSSD2-1VTX60G) £79.99
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G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL ) £69.59
(£57.99) £69.59
(£57.99)
Antec 100 One Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - Black £43.99
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XFX Pro 450W Core Edition Power Supply £42.98
(£35.82) £42.98
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bigdm · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:01

very nice..

paradisiac · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:03

still no windows 7 64bit :rolleyes:

stulid · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:05

paradisiac said:
still no windows 7 64bit

Just use his existing 32bit license on a 64bit install.

paradisiac · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:06

stulid said:
Just use his existing 32bit license on a 64bit install.

only works if he has a full retail license.

stulid · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:07

paradisiac said:
only works if he has a full retail license.

O rly?

bigdm · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:07

I have a full retail Licence, dont need OS included,

paradisiac · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:08

stulid said:
O rly?

oem licenses will only work on their type. but OP has said he has a retail license so all is good

stulid · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:13

Well the fact is it has been done before with OEM licenses which are only tied to the motherboard.

paradisiac · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:16

stulid said:
Well the fact is it has been done before with OEM licenses which are only tied to the motherboard.

i have tried oem licenses in the past and they will not install the 64bit version, so i guess some people have been lucky. and there have also been lots of posts on here with the same issues. but if it works for you then fair enough.

stulid · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:19

Dont know where you are getting your info from buts wrong.

Your buying the KEY not the software type.

Try googling, its not hard,

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/6692-63-using-license-install
http://superuser.com/questions/7332...2-bit-oem-licence-to-install-the-64-bit-versi

paradisiac · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:29

Evil-I said:
Hate to disagree, but I'm going to

OEM licenses in my experience are specific to the 32 or 64bit version. Its definately the case with the dell oem licenses anyway, Its also the same with vista retail licenses, I tried that a while back with two identical versions of Vista ultimate retail one 64bit one 32, definately couldn't use the 32bit code on a 64bit install.

E-I

russ0r said:
Same here. Dell gave me a 32-bit OEM Vista disc for my laptop. When I said to them that I needed a 64-bit version as it had 4Gb of RAM they as good as told me to **** off.

i have seen more, but cant find them at the moment.

stulid · 10 Jun 2011 at 15:39

Again your talking ****

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18269178