Hello there good folk, I'm in the process of buying some computer hardware components, to set myself up with a fairly capable system. It is to be used for casual entertainment like games, movies, light photoshop editing and office work.
My budget stretches around $AUD 500 and intends on purchasing a case, psu, cpu, mobo, ram, gfx and kboard+mouse. I've already got a monitor, dvd-rom and a speaker set from an old system to dismantle and add onto this purchase.
Too be honest, I've built my fare share of systems and I'm not looking for miracles with this budget. It is probably more a case of emergency as my old system is about to crash and causes headaches on a regular basis. I do need help though, as I'm not experienced with budget purchases and I imagine it being more complex to assemble an optimal system this way. Coupled with not being present on the computer market for some time, I feel like I'm not exactly on top of things anymore...
The games I play are Heroes of Newerth and Quake Live (not so demanding) to give you some insight to what the system needs to handle.
Here are the sites that are available to me:
www.techbuy.com.au
http://www.i-tech.com.au/
http://www.ddcomputer.com.au
The hardware I'm currently considering:
AMD ATHLON II X2 250 DUAL-CORE 3.0GHZ CPU $82.00
Numan 1208B Mid Tower ATX Case $48.00
Gigabyte ATI HD 5450 PCI-E 2.0 512MB 128-bit DDR5, DVI/ HDMI/ Display Port, DX11, Fan. $70.00
Corsair TW3X4G1333C9A 4GB (2x XMS3 2GB) PC-10600 (1333MHz) XMP DDR3 RAM $161.00
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 M/B $108.00
Gigabyte GK-KM6150 Elegant Multimedia USB Keyboard & Mouse, 9 Media and Internet Hot Keys, Laser engraved printing keys $22.00
from http://www.ddcomputer.com.au total $AUD 504.00 with delivery.
Anyway enough of me, I'm interested in your thoughts about all of this. Thanks!
My budget stretches around $AUD 500 and intends on purchasing a case, psu, cpu, mobo, ram, gfx and kboard+mouse. I've already got a monitor, dvd-rom and a speaker set from an old system to dismantle and add onto this purchase.
Too be honest, I've built my fare share of systems and I'm not looking for miracles with this budget. It is probably more a case of emergency as my old system is about to crash and causes headaches on a regular basis. I do need help though, as I'm not experienced with budget purchases and I imagine it being more complex to assemble an optimal system this way. Coupled with not being present on the computer market for some time, I feel like I'm not exactly on top of things anymore...
The games I play are Heroes of Newerth and Quake Live (not so demanding) to give you some insight to what the system needs to handle.
Here are the sites that are available to me:
www.techbuy.com.au
http://www.i-tech.com.au/
http://www.ddcomputer.com.au
The hardware I'm currently considering:
AMD ATHLON II X2 250 DUAL-CORE 3.0GHZ CPU $82.00
Numan 1208B Mid Tower ATX Case $48.00
Gigabyte ATI HD 5450 PCI-E 2.0 512MB 128-bit DDR5, DVI/ HDMI/ Display Port, DX11, Fan. $70.00
Corsair TW3X4G1333C9A 4GB (2x XMS3 2GB) PC-10600 (1333MHz) XMP DDR3 RAM $161.00
Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3 M/B $108.00
Gigabyte GK-KM6150 Elegant Multimedia USB Keyboard & Mouse, 9 Media and Internet Hot Keys, Laser engraved printing keys $22.00
from http://www.ddcomputer.com.au total $AUD 504.00 with delivery.
Anyway enough of me, I'm interested in your thoughts about all of this. Thanks!