Spec me please

GTCole · 2 Oct 2007 at 12:48

Hi Guys,

I'm looking to throw together a PC quite soon but need help

I'm have to build a system thats as cheap as i can get it! what i'm after is either a dual core or quad core cpu, at least 2gb or ram, a graphics card, PSU and motherboard.

What i'll be doing with the pc is mainly streaming and transcoding video on the fly to my PS3, and other forms of video encodeing as i have ripped all my dvd's (as its legal) and will be using my pc as a media center but i'm limited with space so my pc will need to stay where it is

I have spec'd a pc at around £700 but the wife went nutted as that's too much apparently

so i'm looking to slice that in half give or take

Can anyone help?

TIA

G

Teaf · 2 Oct 2007 at 13:39

Hey

This is probably what I would end up picking for a sub £400 budget (damn missus!). I would have preferred to get you a quad core in there due to your activites on the PC would have REALLY benefitted from a quad core but it's just not feasible in the budget to do it properly. It is possible to get it in but a £400 Q6600 setup would seriously hamper the rest of the PC. Included both in case you were interested in the Quad, but I'd end up picking the Dual setup.

< £400 dual core
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< £400 quad core
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GTCole · 2 Oct 2007 at 13:59

No need for the case, harddrive and dvd writer so that would leave £314 for the quad core setup i would however need a graphics card.......

Teaf · 2 Oct 2007 at 14:00

GTCole said:
No need for the case, harddrive and dvd writer so that would leave £314 for the quad core setup i would however need a graphics card.......

The micro Gigabyte board has onboard VGA. If you wanted a seperate video card then I would drop the Gigabyte board, get the nforce 650i ultra and also a HIS 2400 Pro 1GB.

GTCole · 2 Oct 2007 at 18:12

Is that card any good for gaming? i wont be playing much but wou;dn't mind a crack at Crisis when its out?