Budget Build

[jjsbasmt]

I already have an Centurion case, PC Pwr&Cooling 500 W Silencer, and Seagate 1TB HD and 9600 GT Video card, and Memorex LS DVD burner. What do you all think about getting the folllowing to complete by budget build? Internet and light gaming are my forte.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820227298

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...?ItemList=Combo.232667

 

[MarcVenice]

Nope 😛 It's either overkill for a budget build or if you want to spend that much, wait erm, lol a month (can't be more specific) and buy a P55-motherboard with a Lynnfield cpu. It should be faster and cheaper. It should also drive prices down of socket 775-cpu's. For a budget-build I'd suggest AMD though, something like a 780g mobo, with a Phenom II X3: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16819103648 and mobo: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813128394

 

[jjsbasmt]

Thanks, MarcVenice, for your time and recommendations. I thought this would be a budget build since I figured the Core i7 was the top stuff, and anything less than that was a budget build, but on second thought I guess I was asking about a midrange build afterall. I guess since I read Maximum PC, I had a different slant on what a budget build really is. I like your recommendation for a true "budget build" as I have had numerous AMD and Intel systems, all that I built myself except my sig build which was a basic Dell 530 that I upgraded to play Call of Duty, World at War. I am going to take your advice and wait on the new CPUs and Motherboards. Again, Thanks!

 

[brblx]

is the e5300 overclocked? probably an easy 3ghz overclock there.

if you feel you need an upgrade for gaming, bump the GPU up first. for general purpose use though, your PC is fine. i'm not sure why you'd bother upgrading to another 775 motherboard at this point, anyway, does your current one not support core2 quads?

 

[jjsbasmt]

The e5300 would overclock for sure if it was in something other than a Dell 530 Inspiron, which has a couple of caveats. The Dell BIOS has no features to allow OCing, and the Foxconn MB doesn't even have a PCIE power connection. However it does play Call of Duty pretty well. The 5300 doesn't permit Virtualization, so I would not be able to run XP in Virtual mode on Win 7. And, this past weekend, a friend of mines system (Socket 754 Athlon 3200) crapped out on her and I gave her the Dell, which was brand new before I upgraded it. She didn't want the extra HD, Video Card and Dell Silencer since she only does Internet and photo editing. So I returned it to stock and now am back to using my P4 3 Gig Prescott as my main system.