Yay!! Another self build query, due to unforeseen circumstances, my budget has been reduced, god damn valentines.. Budget now only about £600, so I have based it on Februarys buyers guide. Antec 300 Three Hundred Case - £42.99 AMD Athlon II X2 250 Socket AM3 3.0GHz 2MB L2 Cache Retail Box Processor - £50.85 MSI 770-C45 AMD 770 AM3 DDR3 Support 8 channel Blu-ray Audio GB LAN ATX Motherboard - £47.86 Samsung SM2243SN 22" Widescreen TFT Monitor 1920x1080 15000:1 (Dynamic) 300cd/m2 5ms VGA - Black - £114.99 Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz/PC3-10600 Memory Kit CL9 1.5V - £79.02 Corsair 400W CX PSU - 12cm Fan 80Plus Certified Efficiency 6x SATA 1x PCI-E - £39.92 Sapphire HD 5750 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI Display Port Out PCI-E Graphics Card - £102.35 Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English - £75.38 Black Wireless Multimedia Keyboard & Optical Mouse with Charge Cradle - USB - £11.23 Logitech X-140 Black 2.0 PC multimedia speakers - 5W RMS - £14.99 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro rev 2 Socket 775, 1156, 1366, AM2, AM3 Heatpipe CPU Cooler - £18.17 Total - £608.67 inc shipping. My budget is basically reduced due to the fact I need mointer/OS/Keyboard etc. So would this build be decent for at least a year to do the usual stuff like web surfing, Warcraft. Also am I missing anything? eg connector, if so what is needed. Cheers in advance.
Yeah I know, gutted but had to folk out some cash for a romantic weekend break for two, god bless this time of year. This build will be just to get me back online.. I may only make it last 6 months and slowly start upgrading once with the latest shiney's.
Are you sure it can't wait a month or two before you take the plunge, just so you can fork out the extra hundred quid you'd need for an i5? I really think you'll appreciate it, given that the CPU and mobo would be a pain to upgrade. Otherwise, the rig looks sound and will do you well, except I don't see an optical drive in there?
My impatience is starting to get the better of me, so I thought this would do for now. Oh no, forgot that add another £15 then.. What my general idea it to get this sorted for now then go i5 route as I'd only really need to replace mobo/processor not that much work.
Oh, it'll definitely be a good rig, no doubt about that. i5 is just the future-proofing way to go. A shout out for the Samsung F3 Spinpoint 500gb for that hard drive you'll need.
If you buy an i5 it should because you need one now. By the time it needs upgrading the choice will be between Sandy Bridge and Bulldozer both of which will mean a new motherboard and CPU. OK now I have finished my rant against "future proofing" I can move onto some constructive comments. I would suggest sticking with the AMD stock cooler and using the cash saved to get a Phenom II 550.
Perhaps skip the 5750 for now and get the i5. Being a dollars and cents yankee I'm not too sure how far 102 pounds gets you but it's gotta be something decent, maybe even cut your cost down to 550 and have some extra already put towards a graphics card in the future (Fermi? 58xx?). If you're just browsing the web and playing WoW you should be fine with integrated for a couple months.
To connect to internet, will I need a wifi card? or do they come build in these days.. Sorry for dumb question.
If it is solely to get you online, I'd suggest getting a v.cheap prebuilt with a deccent monitor thrown in. That way you're not wasting time/money with parts that are decent but will eb replaced very soon.
There's nothing wrong with your list, but I'd be wary of only having a 400w psu. 650w is the lowest I'd consider. Also, you've not said what you want to do with this rig? General purpose or heavy gaming? I'd question the logic of buying this, then upgrading to i5 later, as you'd need the cpu/mobo AND memory. If you can manage it, go i5 now with cheap hdd/dvd, mouse, keyboard etc. Blag these off a mate or something, or buy a cheap bundle from the likes of Scan/Ebuyer... Lastly, do you have any components you can reuse? What about your old pc, does it have an OS you could use for now?
You are very wrong on the PSU front. I am running i7, 6GB ram and 260 GTX with a modular 450w PSU. The Antec Truepower 650w comes with 4 PCI-E power cables because a PSU of that wattage can support 2 high power graphics cards. So save your money and do not buy into the wattage is higher hysteria.
Seconded on that. With a quality PSU, such as the Corsair one listed, you can cut it relatively close and not have to worry. Although I'd be surprised if this setup got too close to 400W at full load in the first place.
er, how can I be wrong, when expressing an opinion, NOT a fact? I said my preference is for a 650w, not that he needed that much! There are perfectly good 400w psu's out there if you look, obviously.
