VH's new puta?

[Vicious Horizon]

* Case: Coolermaster Elite 330 Mid Tower 420W Black
* Lights & Illumination: NONE
* Extra Case Fan Upgrade: Default Case Fan
* Power Supply Upgrade: STANDARD CASE POWER SUPPLY ***No OverClocking Possible***
* CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E7400 CPU @ 2.80GHz 1066FSB 3MB L2 ***Overclockable XXX*** Cache 64-bit
* Overclocking Service: No Overclocking
* Cooling Fan: INTEL LGA775 CERTIFIED CPU FAN & HEATSINK
* Motherboard: (E8x00 & QX9x00 Series Support) Asus P5N-D nForce 750i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard (Please note that this MB only support up to 800Mhz memory speed.) ***Overclockable S& S***
* Memory: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (G.SKILL Value Select or Major Brand)
* VGA Power Supply: NONE
* Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT 1GB 16X PCI Express
* Video Card 2: NONE
* Video Card 3: NONE
* Monitor & LC NONE
* 2nd Monitor: NONE
* Hard Drive: Single Hard Drive (160GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
* Data Hard Drive: NONE
* Hard Drive Cooler: None
* Optical Drive: SONY DUAL FORMAT 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)
* Optical Drive 2: NONE
* Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO
* Speakers: Logitech S120 2.0 Stereo Speaker Set (BLACK COLOR)
* Network: ONBOARD 10/100 NETWORK CARD
* MODEM: NONE
* Keyboard: NONE
* Mouse: NONE
* Extra Thermal Display : NONE (AS SHOWN)
* Wireless 802.11B/G Network Card: NONE
* Wireless 802.11B/G Access Point: NONE
* Flash Media Reader/Writer: None
* Cable Wiring: None
* Cables: None
* Video Camera: NONE
* Power Surge Protection: None
* IEEE Card: NONE
* USB Port: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports
* USB Portable Drive: NONE
* Floppy: NONE
* OS: NONE - FORMAT HARD DRIVE ONLY
* Media Center Remote & TV Tuner: NONE
* RUSH SERVICE: NONE
* WARRANTY SERVICE: STANDARD WARRANTY: 3-YEAR LIMITED WARRANTY PLUS LIFE-TIME TECHNICAL SUPPORT

What do you guys think of that?

It comes to £422.. Any good for gaming?

[VoX]

From that list I know that's from Cyberpower...

Get an 8800GT(S), the 9500 GT 1GB will only come in useful if you have a massive screen, and even then an ATI HD 4850 (or even 4830) would be a good buy and give you performance.

I take it you don't want to overclock...?

I may also copy this rough spec for my new PC, I'm bloody close with the cash.

[Vicious Horizon]

No, I don't want to overclock. I thought it was pretty good value really, may just skank the parts off eBay though.. And I guess you mean video cards.. I'm so useless when it comes to the hardware

NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 16X PCI Express is what I've checked instead of the 9500, they don't seem to have 8800s..
That brought it down to £390

[Calneon]

Don't even consider an 8400.

Card with numbers like 9500, 8600, 8400 are just trying to fool people into thinking they are just toned down versions of 8800s and 9800s. They are not. Don't buy them. Look at the ammount of memory on it, it's just meant to make people go, "Oooh, that card has as much memory as a GTX280, therefore it must be good!". 1GB on a card like that is a total waste.

Get a second hand 8800GT if you can, or a new one or even stretch to a 4850 and you won't regret it.

Your last comment, "That brought it down to £390", is confusing me. Yes, if you get something inferior, it's going to bring the price down. It's like saying, "If I don't buy any food I can save £100 a week!", uh yeah, but you won't have any food....

If you want, I can spec you a good PC to fit in your budget. Just don't go off buying 8400s or 9500s lol xD.

[Mr.Big]

i laugh at my friend for having a 9600GT with 2gigs of Vram on it...

[Calneon]

i laugh at my friend for having a 9600GT with 2gigs of Vram on it...

Seriously? Haha.

[ez64]

I use the 8400gs 512mb for some high res secondary outputs but not gaming, good for HD media though.

Definatly would go for a 4850 as the price/performance is amazing.

Also as 4GB to 2GB costs pretty much nothing these days get the 4GB setup for vista, I would also highly reccomend buying another cheap HDD the same as the one there and put them both in RAID 0 you will see massive loading/general pc use performance increase for the least amount of cash.

And you wont get that stuttering that sometimes happens in single drive setups while in games with vista and also seen if theres a anti virus scan going on in the background/indexing.

[Vicious Horizon]

Ah, ok Phantom.. As you can tell I don't know a bloody thing about setups, well, I do, but not enough. So yeah, if you can do something in the £350-£550 budget that'd be awesome. Is there any point just skanking all the parts from eBay and getting a rubbish case?

[ez64]

Na ebay parts are not usually that much cheaper and you have a greater chance of it all being shite.

You can easily do RAID 0 4gb ram C2D and a 4850 off overclockers for under £500.

[Midge]

420W PSU?! wouldnt it be wiser going for summink with a lil more power to be on the safe side, jst incase u wanna add at a later date?

[Calneon]

This will be 10x better than the spec you had in your OP. You also haven't picked an OS, so I assume you have one?

[ez64]

This will be 10x better than the spec you had in your OP. You also haven't picked an OS, so I assume you have one?

Looks pretty perfect although I would say go for the newer and still cheap 1333MHZ C2D and I still strongly reccomend another HDD for raid 0 even if its an 80gb it will make a big perfomance increase.

Also why not go down the shuttle route?

I recently built a

C2D 1333MHZ
4GB DDR2 800MHZ
Shuttle Barebones case + PSU + Motherboard
4850 single slot
2* 80gb barracudas sata2 raid 0

and for about £400 will link later.

[Vicious Horizon]

Cool, thanks guys ^^ And yeah, I do have a set of OS disks.