Have been given the task by one of the bosses at work to spec him a system upgrade for his boy for Xmas. Budget is around £400 (Think I can push him to the £450 I've specced), the pc is to be for general use and gaming.
He has an existing PC which can be 'broken' so have decided to use the hard disk and DVD+R (both IDE) from this. Unfortunately the case will only fit a Micro ATX card so think a new case is in order.
The bits I've picked out are listed below for comment. One of the things I was wondering was on the graphics front... are the 8800GT better than the ati HD cards?
Will probably try and OC a bit higher if the temps allow, should this be able to go 3ghz with the stock cooler and this case without any issues? (I'll be adding an inlet fan over the processor)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) (£35.24)
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply (£52.86)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (£63.44)
Leadtek GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£135.11)
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-WH Zen White Case - No PSU (£31.71)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail (£119.84)
Sub Total : £372.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £67.01
Total : £449.90
He has an existing PC which can be 'broken' so have decided to use the hard disk and DVD+R (both IDE) from this. Unfortunately the case will only fit a Micro ATX card so think a new case is in order.
The bits I've picked out are listed below for comment. One of the things I was wondering was on the graphics front... are the 8800GT better than the ati HD cards?
Will probably try and OC a bit higher if the temps allow, should this be able to go 3ghz with the stock cooler and this case without any issues? (I'll be adding an inlet fan over the processor)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) (£35.24)
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply (£52.86)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (£63.44)
Leadtek GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£135.11)
Akasa AK-ZEN-01-WH Zen White Case - No PSU (£31.71)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail (£119.84)
Sub Total : £372.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £67.01
Total : £449.90
