A cheap little computer build.

[jimi]

I have selected some computer components I might be using to put towards a gaming computer build. Its going to be around the £500 pound mark. I only have £225 of the £500 budget so far, so here are the parts:
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Suggestions/comments

[Lycan]

For a lost cost build seems fine, I'm eyeing up the same processor to replace one in one of my media centres.

What kind of Ram are you eyeing up?

[jimi]

To above:

The cheapest possible 4GB RAM :P

[Muct]

Could you give a link or something to the site you are buying this from, that way it would be easier to see everything...
For a gaming computer that budget is pretty low, the graphics card is okay I guess but for gaming the processor is a bit, ughhhh too.
And for the RAM don't go anything over 4GB, that's all you will really need.
Recommend DDR3 btw, even like 2 GB DDR3 would be faster than any amount of DDR2 and everything like that...
Really though we need a link for the site to see what they have and everything.

[jimi]

Could you give a link or something to the site you are buying this from, that way it would be easier to see everything...
For a gaming computer that budget is pretty low, the graphics card is okay I guess but for gaming the processor is a bit, ughhhh too.
And for the RAM don't go anything over 4GB, that's all you will really need.
Recommend DDR3 btw, even like 2 GB DDR3 would be faster than any amount of DDR2 and everything like that...
Really though we need a link for the site to see what they have and everything.

Sorry for not posting the link www.ebuyer.com (http://www.ebuyer.com),
Do you suggest a different prosessor?

[scottish]

everyone knows thats ebuyer lol

You can't really do much else with the processor for that kind of budget tbh

Also you could probably get a cheaper mobo without onboard VGA as you're buying a gfx card you don't need onboard graphics.

editz

Case: Coolermaster Elite 330 Case with 620W PSU - 2x SATA 12cm Fan £49.99
Graphics Card: HIS HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 DVI HDMI Display Port Out PCI-E Graphics Card £134.00
Hard Drive: Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM £47.72
Motherboard: Asus P5G41C-M G41 Socket 775 VGA HDMI Out 8 Channel Audio MATX Motherboard £51.98
CD/DVD Drive: Samsung SH-S223L 22x DVD±RW DL & RAM with LightScribe SATA Optical Drive - Retail Box Black £13.99
Power Supply: with case £0.00
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 2.5GHz Socket 775 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor £108.94
Memory: Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz/PC2-8500 HyperX Memory CL5 2.2V £84.82

TOTAL PRICE OF COMPUTER£491.44

BUDGET£500.00

LEFT OF BUDGET £8.56


somit like dat?

[Stephen!]

Recommend DDR3 btw, even like 2 GB DDR3 would be faster than any amount of DDR2 and everything like that...


Capacity > Speed. Period. DDR3 is a waste of money if you're buying it for the "performance". It may give higher bandwidth and scores better in synthetic benchmarks, but there's no difference in real-world applications. The only reason why you should buy DDR3 is if the CPU and/or the motherboard force you to.

[N!ck]

Capacity > Speed. Period. DDR3 is a waste of money if you're buying it for the "performance". It may give higher bandwidth and scores better in synthetic benchmarks, but there's no difference in real-world applications. The only reason why you should buy DDR3 is if the CPU and/or the motherboard force you to.

I agree.

Although DDR3 is extremely useful in a server environment.