System Build; £300

alasdairsim

alasdairsim

alasdairsim

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£300 is kind of the budget at the minute although I will no doubt upgrade components in the future.

Is this about the best I can get for the price? Or is there anything I need to seriously improve upon?

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Thanks =]
 
For a £300 budget you've done very well.

Before we could advise you further on worthwhile improvements it would be useful to know what you intend to use the system for?
 
oh, sorry, I forgot to mention that, ha.

It'll be mainly used for general things; surfing, downloading, listening to music etc... Although I do play the odd game (Civilization IV, Football Manager), nothing too streneous.

I'd like it to be semi-decent at the minute incase, on a whim, I decide to do anything more memory/graphical consuming with it and I will upgrade it in the future no doubt as this will be my main computer as my Laptop will just be used when I go back to University.

The budget at the minute is in and around £300. I already have my old TFT monitor and OS.

Thanks for any help =]
 
No worries - and welcome to the forums.

The one thing i would mention is that some AM2 motherboards can support an AM3 chip - such as the Asus M4A78 AMD 770 (Socket AM3/AM2+) and therefore be more future proof. At only £20 more it may be worth considering as, when you come to upgrade in the future, an AM3 would probably be within your budget. (I'm unfamiliar with the MIS motherboard listed - it may or may not have this feature)
 
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Thanks. I'll definitely look into that.

I was told that this graphics card: ASUS HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 VGA DVI HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card

would be significantly better than the one I picked out. Its only an extra £15 or so.

I'm good with core specs (RAM, Processors, HDD etc...) and putting it together but i'm less familiar with specs of Graphic Cards, ha.

Would I notice a significant difference in the above card to warrent and extra £15?

It might sound like i'm being a bit cheap with trying to keep it to £300-ish but for all, at the minute, I do with a computer I don't want to be splashing out £600/700 pounds then not using it to its full potential. I'd much rather get a decent system and upgrade it over time if it is needed.
 
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I was told that this graphics card: ASUS HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 VGA DVI HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card would be significantly better than the one I picked out. Its only an extra £15 or so - would I notice a significant difference in the above card to warrent and extra £15?
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I would say yes - as in reviews it's likened to the 9600's.

alasdairsim said:
It might sound like i'm being a bit cheap with trying to keep it to £300-ish but for all, at the minute, I do with a computer I don't want to be splashing out £600/700 pounds then not using it to its full potential. I'd much rather get a decent system and upgrade it over time if it is needed.
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Not at all - I agree, there's no sense spending money unnecessarly - and the reasoning behind your spec is sound.
 
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Thanks for your help!

Just a final check on spec:



For what i'm paying I think this is a decent system. Is there anything that isn't compatiable? I'm going to go a final check of things this afternoon before I buy but just incase there is something really obvious i'm not seeing.
 
Looks good.

The only slight flaw is your memory - if you could stretch your budget to 4 gig your spec would really reap the benefits.
 
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