Build Advice Decent specs for around £400?

i would suggest you dont overclock and stress you machine with that PSU cause its a cheapo one im afriad.

i doubt it will be able to supply 650W of power, what amp is the 12V rail ??? as the 4870 is quite beefy and needs decent amount of amps

 

i am pretty new to the amount of detail i'm going into as the only computer ive ever built came as a package of components i just needed to put together pretty much, and yh i know the psu is a cheap one :-(, aahhhhhh i need more help :-(

 

it will run the system that PSU but..

main issue with cheap ones are:

1) unstable voltages under heavy load
2) powercuts may result in a surge which kills your RAM, motherboard or CPU or graphics and most likely kill the PSU

i would really recommend you get a decent PSU at some point

 

ok then if i go with a CoolerMaster eXtreme Power 500W ATX PFC PSU at £38.00, and stick with the standard cpu cooler until i have some more money available or a i see a bargain, as i am not looking to overclock will this be a good solution for that?

 

yeah that should be ok for a 4870 as longas your not cranking out high overclocks which increase the power draw considerably that will do just fine.

£38 for cooler master extreme power pretty good price wheres that from ?

 

eclipse computers, i live local to them aswell so am hoping to get everything from they they are very competitive! now all i have to do is decide what processor and mobo combination INTEL or AMD and i have decided to go for a quad core to allow for the future proofing, but from which manufacturer

 

well the best cheap quad core is the 955 from amd

 

ahhh not going to be able to stetch that far im afraid!

 

then don't bother quad core you don't need it it isn't absolutly essitial and only benfits you in very few games go fo my set up with either e5300, e7400, e8400 the e8400 is best one there

 

yes but that would mean going with ddr2 ram and staying with the 755 socket mobo, which as ive been told is coming to the end of its life! how about a AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition AM3 Processor

 

i dosen't mean the 775 hardware is going to all break it means that they are very soon going to stop manufacturing tings for 775
the e5300 is better than the amd 550 AM3

 

Double post =Retracted=

 

Your having a laugh, the 550 pretty much smashed the E5300 in most benchmarks in bit-tech, even at 4GHz, the Phenom was quicker, and its DDR3, a reasonable comparison would be the E7400 but to say an E5300 is faster than a 550 BE... no

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2009/07/02/amd-phenom-ii-x2-550-black-edn-cpu-review/

 

so you are saying a 550 is faster than a 720?

 

Where are the bechmarks saying E5300 ~ X3 720...

 

well looking at the cpc benchamarks a overclocked e5300 gives same performace as a overclocked x3 720 issue 68 page 80

 

so the specs i am coming to find as best appropriate now are as follows:
1,AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition AM3 Processor £74.46
2,Sapphire 1024Mb ATi Radeon HD 5750 PCI-Express VGA Card £117.88
3,Geil 4Gb (2x2Gb) DDR3 1333 Brushed Titanium Kit £66.13
4,MSI 770-C45 AM3, DDR3, PCI-E, SATA2, GBLan, ATX £49.39
5,320Gb Samsung Spinpoint T 7200rpm 16MB Cache SATA HardDrive £33.64
6,Titan Fenrir TTC-NK85TZ 120mm PWM 17dBA+ "HDT" CPU Cooler £25.86


what dos everyone think on that now

 

Well I have no idea why that is, even the bit tech review showed otherwise...