Wanting A New PC

[Snerfs]

Im looking to buy a new computor, im not needing a monitor, keyboard or mouse, just a custom tower. if you want to make any changes to it, please link items with a website or an ebuyer ID like i put them down as.

Case : 134832 : £29.99 (V Shiny Piano Black/Silver Slim MicroATX Mini Tower Case - With 400W PSU 20+4pin, 1x SATA, 1x PCI-E)

Hard Drive : 143288 : £83.94 (Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 1TB Hard Drive SATAII *32MB Cache* - OEM)

CD Drive : 136445 : £15.28 (Pioneer DVR-115DBK 20x DVD?RW Dual Layer Internal IDE Black Bare Drive - OEM)

Motherboard : 125082 : £56.18 (Asus P5N-E SLI 650i Socket 775 PCI-E Onboard Audio ATX Motherboard )

Processor : 140428 : £133.25 (Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16GHz) Socket 775 Wolfdale 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor)

RAM : 130430 : £64.23 (Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR3 1333MHz/PC3-10666 XMS3 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL9(9-9-9-24) Silver Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty)

Graphics Card : 148064 : £105.50 (XFX 9800GT 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card)

Total: £488.37 with Delivery Within 5 Working Days (FREE) |saves 12 quid!|

I'm looking to spend in and around £500-£600.

[Chalex4]

Here is a specification I just whipped up. It is quite to Chazlene's PC, but with a significantly better CPU, GFX and HDD:

http://www.atkcommunity.com/chalex4/pc/snerfs_pc_small.png (http://www.atkcommunity.com/chalex4/pc/snerfs_pc.png)

Some of the prices might be cheaper on Ebuyer, but the prices above are from OcUK. You could save some cash by getting a 500GB HDD instead or a slightly less powerful processor.

[Colonel Mitch]

okay well heres my revelation lol. its slightly over what you wanted (although u can take 10 quid off the total as the gfx cards are cheaper if u choose a cheaper manufacturer that their currently out of stock for.), and yes if u havent skipped to the spec i did say cards - plural :)

Also the phenom i chose is the saem price as the E8500 (about), its also the black edition (like extreme is for intel), which makes it good for overclocking. they run quite cool and dont use too much power. the intels are good im not denying that but if i wanted a computer for general use and gaming id go for the AMD. too of my freidns ive built pcs for with the phenom and they perform great.

well here it is.....

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/Capture.jpg

with only 1 card the price drops to £487, or if you wanted to only get 1 id reccomend the 4870 GDDR5 version which would make it about £535.

[Colonel Mitch]

also if anyone would like to re price from OCUK the grafics cards are ALOT cheaper from there.

[Calneon]

I would recommend exactly what Chalex suggests. I can't fault it at all, might be a good idea to grab another 2GB of memory though at that price.

I myself wouldn't recommend an AMD processor, simply because I haven't heard from anyone who has on and I don't know how they perform compared to intel. I would play safe and get an intel.

Stay away from the 9800GT, AFAIK, it's just a rebranded 8800GT with the 9 at the front to make people think it's new and better. A 4850 is a much much better choice at the same price. If you are gaming below 1920x1200 (22" and lower) it's the perfect card. If you're planning to get a 24", i'd try to stretch for a 4870.

[VoX]

Slightly off topic; what does AFAIK mean?

[Chalex4]

AFAIK means "as far as I know".

[ez64]

I myself wouldn't recommend an AMD processor, simply because I haven't heard from anyone who has on and I don't know how they perform compared to intel. I would play safe and get an intel.
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I have 2 in my rig :D, honestly go with intel in low and high spec everytime as they outperform every single time.