So umm yeah. Lets say a budget of £500. Uh, needs to be good for heavy apps. Slight gaming. xlink mutted something about say dual core cpu, 2 gig ram, ATI gfx card. So yeah. cheers. :huh: Btw, i'm not a total newb,i know enough.. just not enough. :huh: ^_^
something roughly to the effect of a upper tier c2d, 2Gb RAM and an x1950pro e6750 100GBP http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-157-IN x1950pro 65GBP http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-063-OK board 50GBP http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=MB-003-EA RAM 35GBP http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....id=8&subcat=144 HDD 40GBP http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....d=14&subcat=768 drive 15GBP http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....d=10&subcat=185 case 60GBP http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....catid=7&subcat= PSU 60GBP http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....tid=123&subcat= something roughly like that, I'll look for better deals etc. sometime tomorrow since I have the day off. prices exclude VAT and shipping and some other stuff and yeh, i can probably find some other stuff. Also are you overclocking or not overclocking? if you are OCing, drop the CPU a bit(to say an e6600) and get a better heatsink(though getting the HSF is nice too even without OCing since the stock is somewhat noisey) HSF 25GBP or 30GBP(cheaper one would likely be more than sufficient even without a fan on it it cools better than the stock intel HSF and is close to the ultra-120 while weighing less and being less bulky) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=HS-043-TR http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=HS-027-TR also if you're kickass, try finding these aprts at other etailers liek dabs.co.uk and voerstock.co.uk or wherever. similar parts shoudl also work, though if in doubt ask and I'll do my best to answer.
I more than likely won't be OCing. I need good stock performance. Plus VAT and shippings comes to Total : £522.72 Not bad i suppose :lol: I liek the idea of buying a seperate PSU, higher quality than the standard ones you find you get with cases. ^_^
well 90% of the time the ones which come with cases are absolute ----... the corsair 520HX will basically run one quadcore CPU all the RAM in the world, a bunch of harddrives and CD/DVD drives, and oen top tiered graphics card all without issue. again I'll look around and I should be able to get it to cost a bit less.
http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 4pence cheaper(so go with w/e gives you lower shipping) http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 or http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 about the best i can do with my limited knowlege of UK pricing. should be around 500GBP exact. as for an OS, consider a community project over at xtremesystems.org called XSos v2. It's partially sponsored by MS and is based off of 2000 XP and server 2003 and as long as you have atleast one valid M$ OS lisence you're allowed to use it legally.
Yo xlink, i think i'll go for the 320gb. But the graphics card, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....rodid=GX-063-OK £72 COunldn;t i go for this one: http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quick...80000&InMerch=1 Which is a little bit more, but i looks like the same model just 512mb.
Overclockers has a larger range, but aria is far cheaper. The same/similar parts from Aria comes to £431.62 (inc VAT) plus £6.95 P&P. Throw in an OS an a decent HSF and it would be around £500 e6550 £95.95 (OC it to 2.66Ghz and its the same as the e6750) http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/...productId=27971 X1950pro £54.95 http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/...productId=27834 EVGA nForce 650i £52.55 http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/...productId=26951 RAM £34.95 http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/...productId=23545 HDD £35.99 http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/...productId=25738 DVD Drive £16.50 http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/...productId=27716 Case £56.95 http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/...productId=27716 PSU £59.95 http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/...productId=27955
