Hey all,
Am new here, have been reading the forums, this one mainly, for the last few weeks and decided it was time to make a post and get some advice. I'm a Uni student in the UK so have quite a tight budget.
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
General work, Internet surfing and gaming, but not that intensive.
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
£300-£350
$600-700
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
The UK
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.
Not really, but was planning to go with Intel, but open to suggestions.
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Basic Keyboard and mouse
Planning to nick a 17" tft sceen from home.
Hopefully a CD-RW drive from an old dell Optiplex...?
vista premium 32bit
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Yea have done quite a bit of research and reading other build threads.
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
No not really, don't know how etc.
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Within a month really.
Have used www.scan.co.uk for the pricing and includes VAT
This is what I'm looking at at the moment:
Case: Coolermaster RC-330 V2 Elite Black Midi Tower Case - £24.66 = $49.14
PSU: 500w Seasonic S12II-500 PSU - £52.75 = $105.13
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L - £56.75 = $113.10
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 - £113.96 = $227.11
Heat sink: planing to use the retail one and upgrade later to a Freezer 7 Pro.
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2 PC2-6400 - £30.13 = $60.05
GPU: 512MB Palit/XVision 8600GT - £45.23 = $90.14
HDD: 500 GB Samsung Spinpoint T166 - £46.99 = $93.65
PSU: Would prefer to buy a cheaper one (£20=$40 EZcool) but from what I have read it isn't clever?
CPU: Have been reading today about the E8300 which seems to be the same price as the E8200 so am guessing I will go with that.
RAM: I know that I really need 3 or 4 GB but I was planning to put another 2 sticks in end of next month.
GPU: Would like a better one but cant see how I can afford it.
Total : £370.47 = $738.32
So slightly over budget, but I guess thats what my overdraft is for
So any help on the matter would be very appreciated.
Am new here, have been reading the forums, this one mainly, for the last few weeks and decided it was time to make a post and get some advice. I'm a Uni student in the UK so have quite a tight budget.
1. What YOUR PC will be used for. That means what types of tasks you'll be performing.
General work, Internet surfing and gaming, but not that intensive.
2. What YOUR budget is. A price range is acceptable as long as it's not more than a 20% spread
£300-£350
$600-700
3. What country YOU will be buying YOUR parts from.
The UK
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.
Not really, but was planning to go with Intel, but open to suggestions.
5. If YOU intend on using any of YOUR current parts, and if so, what those parts are.
Basic Keyboard and mouse
Planning to nick a 17" tft sceen from home.
Hopefully a CD-RW drive from an old dell Optiplex...?
vista premium 32bit
6. IF YOU have searched and/or read similar threads.
Yea have done quite a bit of research and reading other build threads.
7. IF YOU plan on overclocking or run the system at default speeds.
No not really, don't know how etc.
8. WHEN do you plan to build it?
Within a month really.
Have used www.scan.co.uk for the pricing and includes VAT
This is what I'm looking at at the moment:
Case: Coolermaster RC-330 V2 Elite Black Midi Tower Case - £24.66 = $49.14
PSU: 500w Seasonic S12II-500 PSU - £52.75 = $105.13
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L - £56.75 = $113.10
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 - £113.96 = $227.11
Heat sink: planing to use the retail one and upgrade later to a Freezer 7 Pro.
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2 PC2-6400 - £30.13 = $60.05
GPU: 512MB Palit/XVision 8600GT - £45.23 = $90.14
HDD: 500 GB Samsung Spinpoint T166 - £46.99 = $93.65
PSU: Would prefer to buy a cheaper one (£20=$40 EZcool) but from what I have read it isn't clever?
CPU: Have been reading today about the E8300 which seems to be the same price as the E8200 so am guessing I will go with that.
RAM: I know that I really need 3 or 4 GB but I was planning to put another 2 sticks in end of next month.
GPU: Would like a better one but cant see how I can afford it.
Total : £370.47 = $738.32
So slightly over budget, but I guess thats what my overdraft is for
So any help on the matter would be very appreciated.
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