New Amd Build

OK Wife's getting a new PC, Yes she is no arguing old one's dieing fast and just had some cash become available.

So if anyone is bored and wants something to do, see what sort of a box you can put together for £300, I'll source the OS separate, and Monitor.

I would say Intel but with such a small budget I think reality is AMD.

The GPU will be a Geforce 8400GS I know this because its sitting in my case lol so going over budget on the new GPU will be very acceptable as its mine

 

My Computers,all run AMD's, Match.
AMD, would be ample for what your Wife would need.IMO.

 

Yes I agree with that DSTM, the hardest thing it will have to do is play Harry Potter Games, and surf the net

 

Well this is what I have come up with

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3GHz) Socket AM2 L2 2MB (2 x 1MB) Cache OEM Processor £55.17 128510
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128510

Arctic Cooling Alpine 64 GT Socket 754, 939, AM2, AM2+ Processor Cooler £7.18inc. vat
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150982

ASUS M4N78 PRO GeForce 8300 Socket AM2+ DVI VGA HDMI Out 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard £64.44inc. vat 170248
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/170248

Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Kit CL5 1.8V £67.99inc. vat 164758
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164758

Maxtor STM3500418AS 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM £36.24inc. vat 159390
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/159390

Pioneer 22x DVD±RW DL & RAM SATA Black Drive - Retail Box & Software £18.59inc. vat 177398
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/177398

Antec 430W EarthWatts Green PSU - 80plus Bronze Certified £48.09inc. vat 185176
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/185176

Black Mid Tower ATX Case with 12cm Blue LED Fan and LCD Display - No PSU £20.43 150284
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150284

Antec TriCool 80mm Case Fan - 3 & 4 pin connection £5.09inc. vat 82245
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/82245
£323.22 Approx

Does anyone have an opinion on a GPU for around the £30 Bracket, I'm looking at the Asus 1GB Radeon HD 4350 PCIE HDMI as an upgrade to an Nvidia Geforce 8400GS,

this gives an increase in RAM, CPU Hz, and RAM Hz but will this make a significant difference ? Dalo

 

Right, my turn :lol:

CPU - AMD Athlon II X2 240 £45.70 from Scan its a 2.8GHz that you can easily OC to 3.5GHz

MOBO - MSI 770-C45 £49.15 from Scan (uses DDR3)

PSU - Corsair CX400W £37.58 from Scan

RAM - Corsair Dominator XMS3 - PC3-12800 £59.50 from Scan (2GB)

Optical - Samsung SH-D162D £11.74 (its not a writer, but from what you said would you need one?)

Total is £205 ish

GPU is a tough one as you really are asking alot for £30 ish (but onboard is not going to cut it)
I would say this http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/1GB-Power-Color-HD-4550-PCI-E-20(x16)-1800MHz-GDDR3-GPU-600MHz-80-Cores-DVI-D-Sub-HDMI £36

The rest is personal choice

 

Not wanting to seem picky but MSI Motherboard !!!! you got to be joking

But after a little research it would seem that they do mass produced cut down cheap versions for pre built systems, that seem to have lots of problems, but taking into account that there will be more problems with a 1000 motherboards than with 100, maybe there is wisdom in this choice?

and there own product seem to be quite reliable with favorable comments so I'll go with that choice.

RAM any reason for that choice when there are cheaper slightly slower versions? without the heat sinks?

Optical drive for the extra £3/4 I think that you may as well have the write capability useful for backing up?

but here is a revised spec sheet, with ebuyer and scan prices, although scan have it on service worth a few quid extra for piece of mind IMO

ADX240OCGQBOX - AMD Athlon II X2 240, Regor Core, Socket AM3, 2.8GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 65W, Retail LN28226 £44.52 Inc VAT (Scan)
£44.89inc vat 168971 (ebuyer)

AC-FREEZER7-PRO-REV2 - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro v2 - S1366/S1156/S775/AM3/AM2+/AM2/939 Up to 130 Watts! £18.67 Inc VAT LN28632 (Scan)
£18.17inc vat 176157 (ebuyer)

MSI 770-C45, AMD 770, AM3, PCI-E 2.0(x16), DDR3 1600(OC), SATA 3Gb/s, SATA RAID, ATX £49.15 Inc VAT LN28876 (Scan)
£47.86inc vat 165438 (ebuyer)

TWIN3X2048-1333C9 - 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS3, DDR3 PC3-10666 (1333) 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 9-9-9-24 £53.63 Inc VAT LN22198 (Scan)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) DDR3 1333Mhz/PC3-10666 Gold Memory CL9(9-9-9-26) 1.6 V Unbuffered £43.47inc. vat 132911 (Ebuyer)

500 GB Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar Blue, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms £39.20 LN17252 (Scan)
£37.86inc vat 124228 (ebuyer)

Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE 22x DVD±R, 12x DVD±R, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, SATA, Black, OEM £17.24 LN29445 (Scan)
Samsung SH-S223 22X DVD±RW/RAM/DL Serial ATA Black Bare Drive - OEM £14.99inc. vat 145450

EA-380 GB - 380W Antec EarthWatts PSU 80mm Quiet Fan Green PSU £36.31 Inc VAT LN24190 (Scan) £33.53inc. vat 185183 (ebuyer)

SAF-B83 - 80mm Coolermaster Internal Case Fan Black (Double Ball Bearing) £2.93 Inc VAT LN697 (Scan)
Antec 80mm Case Fan-3pin Connector 4pin Adaptor With Power Passthrough Both Provided £2.58inc. vat 54153

HD-465X-YAD2 - 512MB XFX HD4650 XXX, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), 1000MHz GDDR2, GPU 650MHz, 320 Cores, DVI-I/D-Sub £35.79 Inc VAT LN31554 (Scan)
£35.37inc. vat 190727 (ebuyer)

Black Mid Tower ATX Case with 12cm Blue LED Fan and LCD Display - No PSU £20.43 150284 (Ebuyer)

23" Digimate L-2362WD Black Wide Full HD 1080P, VGA/DVI 1920x1080, 1000:1, 300cd/m², 5 ms, Speakers £108.96 Inc VAT LN28818 (Scan)
£109.98inc. vat 169049 (ebuyer)

Right GPU

If we are going to part with the extra pennies for the one you suggested then would this one not be better?

http://www.scan.co.u...ub-plus-FarCry2

and no the wife won't let me keep nothing the price up till we get to a good card, doing well so far I got an extra £10 so it will have to stay with under £40 limit or I don't get the monitor

 

Yes, looking at that GPU that will be better than the 4550 that I initially said
320 cores is a lot for that amount of money, be aware though that ATI and Nvidia cores are used differently just because a Nvidia card has less cores does not make it a lesser card ATI use 'floating cores' Nvidia use fixed.

As for the RAM, it depends on whether you plan on overclocking the RAM or not, if not then just get the cheapest set of 4GB you can (DDR3)
as mentioned the rest is personal choice and budget, I personally dont buy budget RAM as I have had a lot of them fail and yes they often come with a warranty, but the time it takes to RMA, you could be without your PC

Take some pics of teh build though

 

LOL Yes intend to also intend to play a consulting role and let the wife have the hands on assembly work so that should leave me with plenty of time to get pictures

 

Once she is finished you should get her to join here in her own right in case she runs into problems. It would also be helpful if she joined so we can direct her to all the threads where you have made fun of her.

 

I'll wait for the pics, I await the one where you say 'for god sakes woman it goes there' you will end up with a photo of a fist coming toward your face and I want that one posted LOL

 

OK consulting plan went out the window, and I ended up doing the build, :unsure:

Few minor problems like a last minute case change resulting in having 2 80mm fans that wouldn't fit any where, and somehow when the wife (<- Notice) ordered the parts the CPU got missed of the list, however managed to source an AMD X2 2.9Ghz CPU locally from a place called PC 2000 for £52

also seems that when the Wife ordered the parts that their was a shortage of 500Gig HDD's so went for a 640 Gig Western Digital HDD

But all together and running sweet for Valentines day Now its password protected and I've been told not to mess with it :snckr:

If only she knew how easy it was to get past Windows Passwords lol, but we can't talk about that here for legal reasons.

Uploaded some pictures unfortunately 60% of the pictures taken weren't any good but next build I'll see if I can't get a decent Camera, and learn how to use it

http://computerhelpf...-amd-msi-build/