Spec me a bedroom pc

jamoor · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:16

Product Name Qty Price Line Total

OcUK Digimate LTV-3212H 32" HD Ready LCD TV £239.99
(£281.99) £239.99
(£281.99)

Asus M2A-VM HDMI Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)

Antec NSK 3480 Micro ATX Case - 380W Earth Watts PSU £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £36.99
(£43.46) £36.99
(£43.46)

LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive - OEM £66.99
(£78.71) £66.99
(£78.71)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ) £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99) Sub Total : £473.94 Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £24.74 VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £87.27 Total : £585.95

So far I have the above, really only require memory, it will be used in the bedroom for watching DVDs and hopefully hd/bluy ray disks and linked via hdmi to the screen.

I am not sure which memory is suitable for this application, in fact will the spec be ok, the budget is 600 excluding VAT.

Glaucus · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:18

what is it going to be used for and linked up with?
and what's your budget?

crazyDAJT · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:20

if your hooking it up to a HD TV, and you got a HD,blue-ray drive. have you thought about a 780G chipset, does full onboard decoding of HD media.

jamoor · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:22

crazyDAJT said:
if your hooking it up to a HD TV, and you got a HD,blue-ray drive. have you thought about a 780G chipset, does full onboard decoding of HD media.

I don't have a clue what that means :confused:

, if that's a better option, then so be it!!

Budget is 600 plus VAT.
Do you mean this?
http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-269-AS

crazyDAJT · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:24

yep thats the one, i like this one more

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

£58.74 inc VAT, but you could pick one up on the MM for £40

EIDT: the onboard graphics is actually very good, and can handle decoding HD media, offloading the work form your CPU, you can use a 2GHz processor, which means less heat, therefore less noise

EIDT2: goggle "780G review" read the first few links

Glaucus · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:25

yeh that's what he means. What you going to use the pc for?

To play hig def films (blue-ray, HD-DVD) it has to be decoded the 780g chipset will do it without using the main cpu.

jamoor · 22 Jun 2008 at 23:40

jamoor said:
So far I have the above, really only require memory, it will be used in the bedroom for watching DVDs and hopefully hd/bluy ray disks and linked via hdmi to the screen.

I am not sure which memory is suitable for this application, in fact will the spec be ok, the budget is 600 excluding VAT.

AcidHell2 said:
yeh that's what he means. What you going to use the pc for?

To play hig def films (blue-ray, HD-DVD) it has to be decoded the 780g chipset will do it without using the main cpu.

Glaucus · 23 Jun 2008 at 09:16

sure that wasn't there before

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You spec looks fine, however get the asus 780g mobo instead.
And this ram would be fine http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-064-GL

but if your going to just watch dvd's/blue ray have you considered just getting a PS3?

jamoor · 1 Jul 2008 at 20:11

I think that's the spec I will go for, wil that ram be ok with it?

PhoenixUK · 2 Jul 2008 at 02:04

AcidHell2 said:
sure that wasn't there before .
You spec looks fine, however get the asus 780g mobo instead.
And this ram would be fine http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-064-GL

but if your going to just watch dvd's/blue ray have you considered just getting a PS3?