semi budget build for friend

biostud

Lifer
Feb 27, 2003
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I've been asked by a friend to build something for less than 5000 Dkr (Danish Crowns) since he saw a pre-built: Q6600, 4Gb ram, 640GB HDD, 8600GS, P35 board, 300W, Vista home premium PSU for said amount of money.

He has already bought a HD4850, and he would like an extra videocard to use in his old computer. He's not that much into o/c but an easy o/c of 20% would be fine.

I've put this together for 6000Dkr

Processor Q9300: 1600kr
Mboard: Asus P5Q: 1000kr
Ram: 2x2Gb DDR2 1066Mhz fx Kingston hyperX: 450kr
PSU: Corsair HX520: 700kr
Cabinet: Antec three hundred 450kr
HDD: Samsung spinpoint F1 1TB 560kr
DVD-burner: 200kr
Video: Radeon 2400XT 200kr
Vista Home premium 64 OEM 830kr

Choosing a Q6600 would save 400,
Choosing Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L another 200

where would you choose to cut savings?
 

DSF

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Oct 6, 2007
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What does he use the computer for, and is he planning to overclock?
 

biostud

Lifer
Feb 27, 2003
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gaming (WoW) and maybe a little overclock, but I think he'll like to have a Quad and not a dualcore