joebaillie

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Hi guys pretty new here and to pc building. I have did a little research and came up with this list of components:

Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition

Memory: Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz

Graphics: Asus HD 5450 1GB GDDR3 DVI VGA HDMI Out Low Profile

MOBO: Asus M4A87TD/USB3 870 Socket AM3

Internat Hard Drive: Seagate ST31000528AS 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM

Optical Drive: Sony Optiarc AD-5260S 24x DVD±RW & DL SATA Optical Drive

OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

PSU: Corsair 500W CX PSU - 5x SATA 2x PCI-Express

I will be primarily using this for work on MAYA (i am a student) and for infrequent gaming, can you guys reccomend any changes to my list? and if so could you give me a name of a case that could fit all of these components?

Also would i have to buy extra fans for the case.
 
Asus H67 board
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/261837
Solid board, newest tech

i5 2500
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/251597
Stronger processor by quite a bit

8GB Kingston
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172949

Corsair 500W
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/240999

Cheap but serviceable case
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/239058

HDD Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/173804

Optical
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/176026

5670 1GB
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/259591

I think that lands right in your budget? I did not comparison shop, just stayed on ebuyer.

edit: yes that is £500 and does not include shipping, but you can probably get a student discount on the Win 7 64-bit.