Spec me £600

V4nger · 27 May 2010 at 21:01

a spec for a friend. needs all peripherals and monitor but no OS. and he would love a 5770 if possible. he may stretch a bit over 600 quid so dont worry making it exact.

thanks guys!

Jake

TobyW · 27 May 2010 at 21:07

He will struggle with that. how good does he want the monitor and other stuff to be.

e/ Might be worth him going down say, DDR2 1066mhz, Q6600 oc'd to 3.2GHz, and a 780i board?

PermaBanned · 27 May 2010 at 21:14

Bit tough... what they using it for? Could they make do with 2GB RAM?

Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5750 Vapor-X 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £109.98
(£93.60) £109.98
(£93.60)
Samsung B2030N 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor £99.99
(£85.10) £99.99
(£85.10)
Patriot G Series Sector 5 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel (PGV34G1333ELK) £87.98
(£74.88) £87.98
(£74.88)
AMD Phenom II X2 Dual Core 545 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £69.99
(£59.57) £69.99
(£59.57)
Cooler Master GX 550W Power Supply £55.99
(£47.65) £55.99
(£47.65)
MSI 770-C45 AMD 770 (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard £49.98
(£42.54) £49.98
(£42.54)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HJ) £39.99
(£34.03) £39.99
(£34.03)
NZXT BETA Evo Classic Series Case - Black £35.99
(£30.63) £35.99
(£30.63)
Zalman CNPS10X-Performa CPU Cooler (Socket AM3 / AM2+ / AM2 / 939 / 754 / Intel 1366 / 1156 / 775) £26.99
(£22.97) £26.99
(£22.97)
Logitech S-220 2.1 Speaker System - OEM (980-000022) £17.99
(£15.31) £17.99
(£15.31)
Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Logitech M115 Optical Mouse (910-001268) £10.99
(£9.35) £10.99
(£9.35)
Logitech Classic Keyboard 200 (968019-0120) £9.99
(£8.50) £9.99
(£8.50)
Sub Total : £536.89
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £96.49
Total : £647.88

coupe69 · 27 May 2010 at 21:19

TobyW said:
Might be worth him going down say, DDR2 1066mhz, Q6600 oc'd to 3.2GHz, and a 780i board?

I realise that you're trying to save the guy some money, but seriously a 780i board :confused:

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 27 May 2010 at 21:22

V4nger · 27 May 2010 at 21:24

edit: took me a while to write that last bit for some reason...

awesome build Cat. ill take out those speakers as i forgot he has a nice hifi system already. get him a better keyboard haha. or maybe pump up the budget a little bit more and get a better motherboard. looks pretty bottom of the line the MSI one. correct me if i'm wrong! how would that run BFBC2 do you reckon?

thanks

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 27 May 2010 at 22:27

BFBC2 runs better on a quad core IIRC. However you maybe able to unlock the X2 545 to a quad core if you are lucky.This is not guaranteed.

The MSI is a well regarded budget motherboard:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/motherboards/2009/09/17/msi-770-c45-motherboard-review/1

The newer examples of the motherboard have ACC enabled which means you can unlock cores.

The motherboard I would get after the MSI one would be this Asus motherboard:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-355-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

It has a split 8 phase VRM with cooling which the cheaper motherboards lack. This will be better for core unlocking and overclocking.

The Phenom II X4 955BE is available for £128:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-244-AM