Hi,
I'm building my first gaming rig at the moment, and I'm sort of overwhelmed at what to get, I'm trying to keep within the £500 price range, and, well, struggling slightly now.
The parts I have so on my wish list are this PSU, this GPU, this HDD, and this fan. This leaves me requiring a motherboard, CPU, some RAM and the case, this is where I'm struggling to work from.
My first question though is, is a 700w PSU too much for what I'll be running? If so what would be more suitable for me? Any money that I can free up by buying a lower watt PSU is money to be spent elsewhere.
I'm not really interested in overclocking my CPU, however I do require a supervisor and user passwords at bootup, as well as 1 IDE port, I won't be needing SLi or XFire support either. On to CPU, I have a Core 2 Q6600 in my current PC, I wouldn't be adverse to using this CPU on my new build, however I'd require a CPU to replace it as I do aim to sell my current PC. RAM, I don't need anything more than 4gb, I will be using Windows XP Media Centre 2005 to save on OS costs (plus I hate Vista and don't plan on forking out for Windoze 7 any time soon). The case I'm still looking for and I honestly have no idea what I'm looking for but any cool case suggestions welcome.
I have about £200 left to spend on the remaining hardware. I'll only buy from places in the UK, and would prefer it to be from Amazon or Overclockers purely because I trust these 2 places and so I can save on delivery.
Thanks,
-Aura
I'm building my first gaming rig at the moment, and I'm sort of overwhelmed at what to get, I'm trying to keep within the £500 price range, and, well, struggling slightly now.
The parts I have so on my wish list are this PSU, this GPU, this HDD, and this fan. This leaves me requiring a motherboard, CPU, some RAM and the case, this is where I'm struggling to work from.
My first question though is, is a 700w PSU too much for what I'll be running? If so what would be more suitable for me? Any money that I can free up by buying a lower watt PSU is money to be spent elsewhere.
I'm not really interested in overclocking my CPU, however I do require a supervisor and user passwords at bootup, as well as 1 IDE port, I won't be needing SLi or XFire support either. On to CPU, I have a Core 2 Q6600 in my current PC, I wouldn't be adverse to using this CPU on my new build, however I'd require a CPU to replace it as I do aim to sell my current PC. RAM, I don't need anything more than 4gb, I will be using Windows XP Media Centre 2005 to save on OS costs (plus I hate Vista and don't plan on forking out for Windoze 7 any time soon). The case I'm still looking for and I honestly have no idea what I'm looking for but any cool case suggestions welcome.
I have about £200 left to spend on the remaining hardware. I'll only buy from places in the UK, and would prefer it to be from Amazon or Overclockers purely because I trust these 2 places and so I can save on delivery.
Thanks,
-Aura
I'll keep the original post below though, for reference if anyone reads this thread and thinks "wtf" at a comment or something.
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