Spec Me Please?

mjones1 · 14 Mar 2009 at 13:59

I M going to build a rig for my brother who has found a new love or music that's all he is interested in.
I would like itto be as cheap as possible.
He has 5.1 surround sound.
He already has a keyboard, mouse monitor so only a base unit

mp260767 · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:01

do you need everything ie keyboard , mouse , monitor , base unit ?

mjones1 · 14 Mar 2009 at 14:05

He already has a keyboard, mouse monitor so only a base unit

mp260767 · 14 Mar 2009 at 15:02

come up with the following a starting point, said your brother has "found a new love of music" so left the sound card decision to others who might be able to recommend something other than the asus xonar/x-fi if hes into more than just listening to it.

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £91.99 (£79.99)

Asus P5QL Pro Intel P43 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £75.89 (£65.99)

OcUK Value Bundle - Coolermaster Elite 335 Case / Akasa Ultra Quiet 400W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.2 PSU - Black Nickel. £72.98 (£63.46)

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £68.99 (£59.99)

Asus ATI Radeon HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail (90-C1CLP0-J0UAN00Z) £60.94 (£52.99)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD322HJ) £40.24 (£34.99)

Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX6400D2K2/4G) £32.98 (£28.68)

Samsung TS-H653F 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.09 (£13.99)

Sub Total : £400.08
Shipping : £10.00
VAT : £61.51
Total : £471.59

siumatfung · 14 Mar 2009 at 15:09

all sorted if he wants better graphics he can upgade later

siumatfung · 14 Mar 2009 at 15:15

tinypic dnt work:s

Antec 300 Gaming Case and Antec Basiq Plus 550W Modular PSU Antec 300 Gaming Case and Antec Basiq Plus 550W Modular PSU £89.99
(£78.25) £89.99
(£78.25)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £68.99
(£59.99) £68.99
(£59.99)
Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2 NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i Chipset (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2 NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / nForce 630i Chipset (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £50.59
(£43.99) £50.59
(£43.99)
Samsung SpinPoint F2EG 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HI) Samsung SpinPoint F2EG 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HI) £47.14
(£40.99) £47.14
(£40.99)
Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX6400D2K2/4G) Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX6400D2K2/4G) £32.98
(£28.68) £32.98
(£28.68)
Sub Total : £251.90
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.75
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £39.40
Total : £302.05

sketch145 · 14 Mar 2009 at 21:34

audio listening or audio editing?

Kennysevenfold · 14 Mar 2009 at 21:36

do you need an OS.?

monitor size do you have.?

mjones1 · 15 Mar 2009 at 07:11

he uses a 32" hd tv as his monitor, i already have a linux cd and windows 7 beta for him
he will he listening to music a lot.

hp7909 · 15 Mar 2009 at 07:51

Budget?

But for music...

mjones1 · 15 Mar 2009 at 09:45

I was looking at the £300 mark

icey_haj · 15 Mar 2009 at 10:58

mjones1 said:
I was looking at the £300 mark

That's quite tough tbh, a good sound card is going to cost around £100.

sketch145 · 15 Mar 2009 at 11:19

£50 over but it is a really good soundcard

icey_haj · 15 Mar 2009 at 11:20

^ I think for purely music purposes, aren't the Asus Xonar cards better?

mjones1 · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:05

I don't really need top of the line as it's a gift to someone

redzep · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:33

I like sketch145's spec tbh

mjones1 · 15 Mar 2009 at 17:26

I might go with that but get a cheaper psu(Big brand), get a cheaper processor and get this sound card http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SC-045-CL Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer 7.1 Sound Card

mjones1 · 17 Mar 2009 at 18:29

BUMP!

Trunks9486 · 17 Mar 2009 at 18:41

This is kind of vague... If its for a gift you should make sure this is exactly what he needs. This kind of cheap builds are usually expensive to upgrade. Once he has the PC he might as well decide to use it for something else and find that it is not too great.

You could always just buy the sound card and let him decide the rest as he sees fit. It just seems strange to me, pairing high end sound cards with low end motherboards and relatively weak processors. Sorry for being off-topic here.

mjones1 · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:23

His laptop died but i will buy his say a high end sound card and he can pay me to build the rest.
Thanks for the idea.