Looking for a second opinion on first home build.

[mghughes01]

Approximate Purchase Date: asap (tomorrow)

Budget Range: £550 max - ideally <£500

System Usage from Most to Least Important: graphic design, gaming (SupCom), video editing/conversion, general web browsing.

Parts Not Required: keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, OS, sound card.

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: www.ebuyer.co.uk

Country of Origin: England

Overclocking: not really interested, but maybe further down the line.

I have the following system picked out and want to know what people think before purchasing. this is my first home build and I'm a little nervous about it all working together correctly.
Any advice/recommendations are welcomed.


AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 8MB L3 Cache £123.32

Asus M4A79XTD EVO 790X Socket AM3 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard £77.63

Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz HyperX Blu Memory Kit CL9 1.65v £53.23

Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache £42.99

Arctic Power 700W PSU - With PCI-E, 4x SATA, 20+4, ATX12V, 8pin +12V Connectors - Retail Boxed £43.99

Antec 300 Three Hundred Case £48.98

Samsung SH-S222A 22x DVD±RW DL & RAM IDE Optical Drive - OEM Black £12.99

Sapphire HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 Dual DVI HDMI DisplayPort HDCP PCI-E Graphics Card £100.15

Cart total inc vat: £516.26

Many Thanks,

Michael

 

[sadams04]

Maybe opt up on the MB to an 800 series chipset with SATA6 and USB 3.0, but overall a good build.

Is this the PSU? => http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124927 ..if so maybe change to => http://www.ebuyer.com/product/221652 or something else "80+ Certified".

 

[obsidian86]

just a few thing the board you chose is old but not bad and i cant seem to find an 8 series board with similar features in your price range

get a better quality power supply the antec below is enough for any graphics cept the 480/580 and 5970/6990 class

if you want 2 cards in future up untill 2 6870's or any 1 of the above mentioned cards get this
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/241554

no reason to get the 965 over the 955 they both hav the same clock limits and its easy to clock the 955 to 965 speeds

 

[mghughes01]

First off thank you both for your replies, you've put my mind to rest that this is a good build.

A couple more questions:
1) is the cooling from fans in the case adequate? Or should I invest in more?

2)I'm upgrading from an old dell 8400, I'm guessing the answer is yes, but will I notice a large performance improvement for things like encoding video and graphic design?


Whilst I always like the idea of upgrading I tend not to be able to justify the cost.
With regards to the age of the mother board do you think it's worth spending the extra money to get a newer one?

 

[obsidian86]

the cooling is adequate but you gonna need more if you going to overclock but adding another case fan shouldn hurt and both amd and intel will be releasing some new stuff early next year so you can see whats available then