Thoughts on this?

krux · 8 Dec 2009 at 23:14

Got a £500 budget for mobo, cpu, ram, gfx, psu and cooler.

i have come up with this i5 build to succeed my current pentium d940 which is on its last legs.

what does everyone think to it? improvements welcome

will0812 · 8 Dec 2009 at 23:19

For £500 theres not a lot better than that, i assume you already have HDD, optical drives and OS? But definately if u can squeeze it for £500, i5 is the way to go.

krux · 8 Dec 2009 at 23:26

sweet, yeah iv got seagate barracuda 500gb, lightscribe optical drive and xp, will be upgrading OS to 7 64bit in the new year

will0812 · 8 Dec 2009 at 23:29

But if you plan to OC that cooler isnt the greatest so you may want to consider something else.

krux · 8 Dec 2009 at 23:34

ok cheers. wont be oc it until about this time next year probably ill keep it in mind, will be nice to enjoy the performance upgrade from my current rig.

TAC4U · 9 Dec 2009 at 00:08

And because you get two copies of DiRT2 you might be able to flog one to a friend and save yourself a bit of money.

Nemeses · 9 Dec 2009 at 00:43

I use that cooler on my E6600 which is O/C to 3.2 from 2.4 and think the hottest I ever seen my CPU is 48c ..so I think its a great cooler and does the job fine when I upgrade to my next machine most likely a i7 will stick with this cooler unless I have problems. Which I dont think I will have.

neo-omega · 9 Dec 2009 at 01:14

If your budget can stretch to it, I would recommend getting a second 5770 as they apparently scale very well in crossfire.

krux · 9 Dec 2009 at 13:14

@ neo-omega, will probably get a 2nd 5770 in feb for my 21st, hence the asus mobo with 2 16x pci-e