Spec me, £550-650!

[addylad]

Hi

Budget is ideally £550 and I need everything, including Vista HP, monitor, mouse and keyboard (could stretch to £600-650 with everything). It will be used for music production (e.g. Cubase) and listening, as well as some gaming, surfing the net and (mainly) lots of Excel and Word 2007 office work.

Not sure where to start really so any help would be appreciated!

 

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Samsung T220 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor £139.99
(£121.73) £139.99
(£121.73)
AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 620 2.60GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £79.99
(£69.56) £79.99
(£69.56)
G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C8 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (F3-12800CL8D-4GBRM) £72.99
(£63.47) £72.99
(£63.47)
Asus M4A785TD-V Evo AMD 785G (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £70.99
(£61.73) £70.99
(£61.73)
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4670 Ultimate "Passive" 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £62.09
(£53.99) £62.09
(£53.99)
Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card (90-YAA060-1UAN00Z) £59.98
(£52.16) £59.98
(£52.16)
**B Grade** PC Power & Cooling Silencer 420W Power Supply (BG-000-PP) £39.99
(£34.77) £39.99
(£34.77)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £39.99
(£34.77) £39.99
(£34.77)
LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - Retail £21.99
(£19.12) £21.99
(£19.12)
Steelseries Kinzu Optical Gaming Mouse & QcK Mini Gaming Pad £19.99
(£17.38) £19.99
(£17.38)
Akasa Genesis AK-5004 Midi Tower Case - Black £16.99
(£14.77) £16.99
(£14.77)
Coolermaster Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/775/1156) £13.98
(£12.16) £13.98
(£12.16)
Logitech Classic Keyboard 200 (968019-0120) £9.99
(£8.69) £9.99
(£8.69)
Sub Total : £564.30
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £86.71
Total : £664.76

Would maybe want a better graphics card, a 5770 would be good for that budget i think.

 

[addylad]

Thanks, but do I need four cores? Or would two be enough?

 

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Well that's a mainstream quad, meaning it's the same price as some high end dual cores. It outperforms those similarly priced duals in most tasks that you said you would be doing, so i don't see why not.