Building a PC for the first time - how does it look?

Felixmagician

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Im building my very first PC. This is meant to be a budget PC that still has enough power to run everything smoothly.
Im not going to overclock it or do anything fancy.

Here are the components:
■CPU --- Intel E5200 2.50GHz 2MB 800MHz
■Mainboard --- ASUS P5KPL SE
■RAM --- 4GB Corsair DDR2/667 Valueselect
■HDD --- 320GB Hitachi HDP725032GLA360
■DVD --- LG GH20NS SATA DVD-RW
■Graphics --- ASUS EAH3450/HTP/512M
■PSU --- Corsair CX400W
■OS --- 64-bit Windows Vista

What do you think? I tried to pick components that have the best quality compared to price.
I don't know much about PSUs, hows the Corsair CX400W? It is enough power to run this system, right?


 

Zecow

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Should be ok. The PSU is fine for that setup if you don't OC. If I were you, I'd go for a 450 or 500, at least it give me some headroom for future use, or incase u wish to OC.

Btw, what do you mean run everything smoothly? If you mean FPS games... I don't think that specs wont cut it for some games especially for Crysis.
 

Felixmagician

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Oh, no games, just enough power to run Vista, office programs and other general apps smoothly.
It is not actually a PC for me, but for a family that needs a new one since their current PC is like 5 years old. They want a cheap PC with still enough power to run programs smoothly. Their budget is 500 euros, and that's the best I could come up with that amount of money :)
 

Felixmagician

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Any more comments?

I would like to get more opionions about the PSU choice.
Also, are there any incompatible parts or bottlenecks? For example the memory DDR2/667 is fine for 800MHz FSB CPU? Mainboard is 1333MHz.