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1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
Mostly gaming and browsing the internet although occasionly I use programs such as photoshop and after effects.
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
£380-420
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
England
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
None
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
I will be re-using my old harddrive aswell as dvd drive.
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
I read the reccomended system build thread and chose some parts based off that.
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
I will probably be running at stock speeds as I have no experience with overclocking
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Sometime this month.
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So this is the build I have come up with, I have no experience in building pc's other than what i have read so keep that in mind :laugh:.
Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 (3.0GHz) 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed | £104 (Pixmania)
or
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Socket AM2 Retail Boxed Processor | £70 (Ebuyer)
Graphics Card
SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY Radeon HD4850 - 512 MB GDDR3 - PCI-Express 2.0 | £108 (Pixmania)
Motherboard
I'm not sure on this one, would this one be ok?
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3 - LGA775 Socket for Intel - P35 Chipset - ATX | £62 (Pixmania)
Memory
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800Mhz/PC2-6400 Memory GOLD DUAL CHANNEL Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-18) | £55 (EBuyer)
Case
Antec 300 Three Hundred Case | £35 (Ebuyer)
PSU
Antec EarthWatts 500W 80%+ Efficiency PSU - 80mm Fan 4x SATA 2x PCI-E | £48 (EBuyer)
Total: £412 (E8400) or £378 (6000+)
Sites used:
www.ebuyer.com
www.pixmania.com
The main thing i cannot decide is whether the E8400 or 6000+ would be the best processor to go with, my budget is very tight and therefore a small increase in speeds for £34 more would not be worth it?
Your help would be appreciated, thanks in advance .
Tom
Mostly gaming and browsing the internet although occasionly I use programs such as photoshop and after effects.
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
£380-420
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
England
4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.
None
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
I will be re-using my old harddrive aswell as dvd drive.
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
I read the reccomended system build thread and chose some parts based off that.
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
I will probably be running at stock speeds as I have no experience with overclocking
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Sometime this month.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So this is the build I have come up with, I have no experience in building pc's other than what i have read so keep that in mind :laugh:.
Processor
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 (3.0GHz) 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed | £104 (Pixmania)
or
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Socket AM2 Retail Boxed Processor | £70 (Ebuyer)
Graphics Card
SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY Radeon HD4850 - 512 MB GDDR3 - PCI-Express 2.0 | £108 (Pixmania)
Motherboard
I'm not sure on this one, would this one be ok?
GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3 - LGA775 Socket for Intel - P35 Chipset - ATX | £62 (Pixmania)
Memory
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800Mhz/PC2-6400 Memory GOLD DUAL CHANNEL Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-18) | £55 (EBuyer)
Case
Antec 300 Three Hundred Case | £35 (Ebuyer)
PSU
Antec EarthWatts 500W 80%+ Efficiency PSU - 80mm Fan 4x SATA 2x PCI-E | £48 (EBuyer)
Total: £412 (E8400) or £378 (6000+)
Sites used:
www.ebuyer.com
www.pixmania.com
The main thing i cannot decide is whether the E8400 or 6000+ would be the best processor to go with, my budget is very tight and therefore a small increase in speeds for £34 more would not be worth it?
Your help would be appreciated, thanks in advance .
Tom