Hey all, Been tasked by a friends dad to spec up a £700-£800 pc to replace their aging one. It sits in the upstairs study (next to a tv, dvd player etc so it doesn;t have to come with BR et al) What kind of thing would they be looking at? I'm thinking a decent mobo, 4GB ram, Q6600 or better?, simple gfx card (they've got a 360 etc to game) Basically as quiet as possible but performing well. many thanks for the advice.
I'm thinking more like Phenom II 940. Best bang for the buck in this price range, IMO. So far... CPU: Phenom II X4 940 - £188.59 MB: Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H - £127.87 (built around the 790GX, so graphics should shine provided they're not gaming on it) HDD: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB - £79.33 RAM: Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2-800 CL5 with DHX - £34.09 Case: Lian-Li PC-8B - £64.18 (alternatively, get the A05B to cut down on space [forgot how much that one is]) PSU: Enermax Modu82+ 525W - £78.98 Total so far is £573.04. That includes VAT but not shipping. You'll also need an aftermarket heatsink with a 92mm fan, some thermal paste, and an optical drive. If you're not planning on cloning the drive in their current computer, you'll want Vista Home Premium 64-bit as well. I'd research some more for you now (and maybe I will later), but I'm getting a bit tired and should probably move on to some other task for a while. In the meantime, that starts you off on a system that should easily end up on the low end of the £700-£800 range and which will run like a dream. - Diosjenin -
CPU: Q8200 Ram: 4gigs (2x2) ValueRam Graphics: Radeon 4670 Motherboard: Dont know, S775 with a PCI-express x16 slot HDD: Samsung SpinPoint 1TB ODD: Samsung WriteMaster Case: Antec NSK 1330 (380w psu included) Maybe you can think about an cardreader? Thats kinda easy for home computers. OS: Vista Home Premium
I'll put it ths way: the computer in my sig has cost £600 so far (minus OS and case), I'd save a little on the graphics card and buy a better monitor/case with better cooling. It depends on what they will use it for but likelihood is that they won't need anything better than an E8400 (I know it's dated, but if it ain't broke, don't fix it)
AMD Phenom 9950 BE Biostar A770 AM2+ ATX Mobo 4GB GSkill Ram (4x1GB) thats just the guts for a good desktop... You could get an AM3 processor and board and have some serious power, but i doubt they'd need it.
i'd go Phenom II am2+ at the least with 790G chipset may be wise to go AM3+ and DDR3 then have a upgrade path a few years down the line else +1 to Diosjenin recomendation though I'd save the cash and get a X3 720BE
if hes willing to stretch his budget by £30 hed get a pretty good setup that would last along time. plus you would save another £10 if you qualify for free postage
Don't think I get free postage Thanks for all the replies people! Just not sure what to do now. Can prob give him a 7900GTOC that I have to save on gfx - so the one ricikle posted would be within budget. Could even get a 2nd disk for the OS.
yeah the graphics card could be replaced for something else then you could maybe get 6gb of ram and another disk
If it's sat in a smallish study I'd say a very quiet 120mm fan... No point in buying E2xxx while E5200 is only a few dollars more. But I basically agree, I'd look at the Bit Budget Box and give him some money back.
720 or 7750 Black Edn 790GX motherboard (integrated graphics) 4GB of memory 1TB hard drive (partitioned) Quiet AM2 cooler Corsair CX400W or OCZ ModX 500W - something 400-500W is ample. Or E5200, or E7300 G45/Nvidia 9300 motherboard + same as above. It doesn't need graphics if it's just for desktop work and internet. Most importantly you want CPU MHz (they probably wont be multitasking much), plenty of memory for the future and a large hard drive to store tons of crap that never gets removed. Or, a £500 mac mini w/ NV9400M - then you don't have to touch it
Dose the mini do HD playback very well with the 9400M, as if to say it was connected to an external BD-ROM drive, or sourcing HD across the 1GB nic..
9400M can do HD with an Atom, so yea, as long as you've got GPU acceleration for HD you'll be fine. 2GHz Core 2 should be fast enough for most things, but might struggle on its own (no GPU) with 1080p.
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Knowing what they do on it will really help get closer to an ideal spec. Is it just used for general office and net stuff or is there anything more that needs to be considered?
I just built a rig with a Xigmatek HDT-SD964, and it doesn't come with the quietest 92mm fan in the world, to be sure. But as long as you don't have it set in the BIOS to blare at a constant 100% speed, it's extremely quiet. You can barely hear the machine from 1m away, no annoying overtones, and it still managed to take an E5200 from 2.5GHz to 3.45GHz, 8hr stable. So I would venture to say that, to some extent, it's more about fan speed than fan size. Besides, if Buzzons is going to go with a mid-tower or uATX-tower, I highly doubt it would fit something like a TRUE. The only way he's getting a 120mm fan on the CPU heatsink anyway is if he goes with a top-down cooler (Noctua NH-C12P, perhaps, but that's a bit expensive). - Diosjenin -
Yea thinking of the Freezer. On another note - if he wants to play back 1080p -- what cards support hardware playback (nvidia 8800 or above?)
