What do you think of this £400 PC Spec?

JoeCooper

JoeCooper

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Its just for playing games like COD4, HalfLife, Eve online... Going to be WinXP. What do you think?

I have 2GB DDR2 Ram. Would it work with this motherboard?



Asus M4A78T-E AMD 790GX (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £98.99

XFX GeForce 9600 GSO Far Cry 2 Edition 1500MB DDR2 PCI-Express Graphics Card £80.99

AMD Athlon II X2 Dual Core 250 3.00GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail £59.00

Coolermaster eXtreme Power 650W Power Supply £49.99

Western Digital Caviar Green 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD7500AADS) £48.99

Coolermaster Elite 334 Midi Case- Black (No PSU) £30.99

Samsung SH-S222L/BEBE 22x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer Lightscibe Drive (Black) - OEM £19.99

Coolermaster Hyper TX3 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/AM3/775/1156) £13.98

Total : £416.44 (inc p&p + vat)
 
Your missing ram. i've never tested ddr2 ram with ddr3 slots, i would however presume it would not work or if it did work, it would create noticeable speed issues.

also about 20 quid more and you could get a nice ATI card. which imo is worth the spend.
 
DDR2 will not work with a DDR3 board, notch is in a different place.
I would look at a diiferent HD as the WD Green may not be a high performance drive.
 
Hey,

That mobo would require DDR3 RAM, you wouldnt be able to use your old DDR2, if you really want to reuse it look at an AM2+ board which takes AM3 CPUs, though you'd be better getting 4 gig of either new DDR2 or DDR3, the HDD is slow for a boot drive, those are normally used as storage drives alongside faster boot drives. Have a read of this, it may help
 
ok, ive added Patriot Viper 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-10666 1333MHz Dual Channel (PVS34G1333ELK) for £68.99, and removed HHD and changed it to: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 320GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST3320418AS) for £34.99.

£457 is now the total, and i would like to get it more to £400. what should i change?
 
you could drop the mobo back to one of the cheaper AM3 models, wouldnt notice much/any difference (save £30), and just use the supplied retail cooler if youre not OCing, ditch the TX3, save another £14
 
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