Building a computer

[imported_TTom]

1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.

Mostly gaming and browsing the internet although occasionly I use programs such as photoshop and after effects.

2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread

£380-420

3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.

England

4. IF YOU have a brand preference. That means, are you an Intel-Fanboy, AMD-Fanboy, ATI-Fanboy, nVidia-Fanboy, Seagate-Fanboy, WD-Fanboy, etc, etc, etc, you get the picture.

None

5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.

I will be re-using my old harddrive aswell as dvd drive.

6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.

I read the reccomended system build thread and chose some parts based off that.

7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.

I will probably be running at stock speeds as I have no experience with overclocking

8. WHEN do you plan to build it?

Sometime this month.

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So this is the build I have come up with, I have no experience in building pc's other than what i have read so keep that in mind :laugh:.

Processor

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 (3.0GHz) 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed | £104 (Pixmania)

or

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Socket AM2 Retail Boxed Processor | £70 (Ebuyer)

Graphics Card

SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY Radeon HD4850 - 512 MB GDDR3 - PCI-Express 2.0 | £108 (Pixmania)

Motherboard

I'm not sure on this one, would this one be ok?

GIGABYTE GA-EP35-DS3 - LGA775 Socket for Intel - P35 Chipset - ATX | £62 (Pixmania)

Memory

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800Mhz/PC2-6400 Memory GOLD DUAL CHANNEL Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-18) | £55 (EBuyer)

Case

Antec 300 Three Hundred Case | £35 (Ebuyer)

PSU

Antec EarthWatts 500W 80%+ Efficiency PSU - 80mm Fan 4x SATA 2x PCI-E | £48 (EBuyer)

Total: £412 (E8400) or £378 (6000+)

Sites used:

www.ebuyer.com
www.pixmania.com

The main thing i cannot decide is whether the E8400 or 6000+ would be the best processor to go with, my budget is very tight and therefore a small increase in speeds for £34 more would not be worth it?

Your help would be appreciated, thanks in advance .

Tom

 

[videogames101]

CPU: e8400

GPU: Asus is better than Sapphire (opinion though, really)

Motherboard: It's decent, but, if you can get a P45 newer, and better.

Memory is fine.

 

[modoheo]

E8400 is significantly faster at stock speeds than the AMD chip - it also overclocks very easily which will increase it's lead over any AMD chip even more.

BTW, I assume you're aware that if you do end up choosing the AMD chip, you'll need to pick a different mobo.

 

[imported_TTom]

I decided I will stick with the e8400, 4850 and ram but I am still not sure about the case, psu and mobo;

I would appreciate it if someone could help me with this, for the case, psu and mobo together i have a budget of around £150, it would be helpful if someone could find the best combination in these using sites from the UK like www.ebuyer.com and www.pixmania.com.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Roguestar]

I've had really good experiences with www.scan.co.uk personally so here are a few recommendations from there:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=847364
Gigabyte P35 DS3L - £60

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=664337
Corsair 550VX 550 Watt PSU 5 Year Warranty - £55

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=811571
Antec 300 Case (cheap and cheerful) - £35