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[Deonilin]

Hi, im looking for a basic pc spec for a budget of £400. This is to include the box only.

The PC will be used for Sound recording and editing/encoding with casual gaming. Currently its more of a basic set up to build on, im looking to buy a good graphics card and soundcard when i have the budget so onboard sound will do for now along with a low spec card (counter-strike source is about the most resource hungry game for graphics i play at the moment). In the future i would look at a graphics and sound card each in the £200 mark but that wont be until christmas.

Any help would be apreciated , the system will unlikly be highly overclocked so that isnt an issue but a quiter option would be considered if there isnt a massive performace hit due to the increase costs of passivly cooled componants.

 

[Deonilin]

i had a go at putting something togethers comments are apreciated

 

[Deonilin]

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

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£84.99
£99.86 inc VAT

sorry posted wrong card

 

[Deonilin]

thanks certainly gives me a lot to think about, got a few questions tho.

> I have heard bad things about gigabyte hardware being unreliable is this just a few peoples bad experiances or a comman thing.

> would i get a beneficial performance increase from the E6550 over the E2160

 

[Deonilin]

well currently its not for professional use as there will be studio access and the prices of getting professional kit is way beyond which i can currently afford.

As i will be running it at stock i have upped my budget and taking into consideration your comments have come up with this

does the clock speed or faster fsb make the bigger difference?