Will This Work?

[RoEy]

Hi all,

Building a PC for my Dad and I want to know if the PSU I've chosen will power it all, especially seeing as it's a new Penyrn CPU? Plus, I used to have a Gigabyte board 3 years ago and it was terrible, have they improved a lot? Is there another board same price thats better? Can't go above £500, is there anything I could make better with the spec? He's got Monitor, keyboard, mouse.

Potential Spec: (He wants it mainly for work i.e. word processing, powerpoints, surfing net, downloading, watching films and listening to music, not playing games)

MOTHERBOARD - Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £65.79

CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail - £117.49

RAM - Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB) - £35.24

GPU - PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO SCS3 SILENT 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail - £29.36

HDD - Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD2500AAKS) (Going to partition it) - £44.64

Drive - Samsung SH-S203D 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM -

Case - Antec Solo Quiet Mini Tower Case - No PSU - £61.09

PSU - Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU -£49.34

OS - Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01991) - £56.39

Total Price £476.94

Will this work well together or will there be any bottlenecking?

Thanks all,

RoEy

 

[RoEy]

Thanks lads.

It's just word pro etc. But he'll want to be doing multi-tasking too. I don't mind it being an overkill as this means it will last him a long time, which is what he wants. Plus he wants it to be really quick so for doing this sort of stuff it will fly. He's never used Vista before and knows XP like the back of his hand. So you think the enermax 400 watt psu will power it all easy enough? No board better at that price range then?

Thanks again,

RoEy

 

[RoEy]

Thanks Semi,

I looked at the abit board you suggested but a few people say the chipset cooling on it is naff. Do you think I should lower the cpu and get a better board to balance it out a bit?

RoEy

 

[RoEy]

Ok thanks for the advice.

RoEy