New system, £800(ish) budget.

[quantumsheep]

Just posting this as i'm looking for opinions on my prospective build. Want to get a new PC for my bedroom. So far i've been looking at:

500GB WD HDD
Asus HD4870 512mb
Gigabyte GA-EP45C-DS3 iP45
Intel E5200
Coolermaster V8 CPU cooler
4GB DDR2 - Thinking about maybe going DDR3 for potential i7 upgrade in near future?
Sony DVD drive
NZXT Black Alpha case
OCZ Stealth XStream 600W PSU
And to top it all off Windows Vista Home Premium OEM

This all comes to about £720. Reasoning behind picking that CPU is i know it's a decent overlocker and i'm fairly experienced with overclocking, currently running an E6600 at 3.4ghz. Getting 4ghz out of the E5200 isn't an unreasonable aim. However i'm totally open to suggestions on the CPU front.

Motherboard is a pretty good one i think although, again, i'm open to suggestions.

Thoughts on the GPU and CPU cooler/anything else would be welcome too! Cheers!

 

[Helloworld_98]

The 4870 is overkill for an E5200

You'd be better off going with an AM3 based machine at your price point or at least a Phenom II 940

I came up with

Sapphire 4870
Akasa Nero
OCZ ModXStream 900w
Dabs Value Alien Gaming Case
Amd Phenom II 940 BE
MSI K9A2 platinum
4GB OCZ Reaper 2x2gb at 1066mhz
Samsung spinpoint 640GB


Comes to £780.53 on Dabs but You'd probably want to not get that case and find an antec 300 for £15 more total plus P&P so it would end up at around £800.

 

[MykC]

Your system with that CPU and GPU you won't your not like to see 400W under load. I'd get the most power efficent 500W-600W, something like the Enermax Modu82+ or Cosair's in the 520 - 620W range.

 

[mrfun1981]

Hi

If you take a look at this thread http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/forum2.php?config=tomshardwareuk.inc&cat=13&post=261541&page=1&p=1&sondage=0&owntopic=1&trash=0&trash_post=0&print=0&numreponse=0&quote_only=0&new=0&nojs=0

I posted a spec of a system in there for a i7 system costing £763. with all the links as well. As you are a experienced person maybe you take a look at it & share your views on it.

Even if its not 100% to your liking you could change 1 or 2 things & still be under budget

 

[quantumsheep]

Cheers for the responses! Ended up going with that basic system but Coolermaster Elite 335 case and a Q6600. It's a nice system, boots up really quickly and that cooler is awesome!

 

[mrfun1981]

Glad to hear you built your self a nice system.

 

[theAnimal]

Reasoning behind picking that CPU is i know it's a decent overlocker and i'm fairly experienced with overclocking, currently running an E6600 at 3.4ghz. Getting 4ghz out of the E5200 isn't an unreasonable aim. However i'm totally open to suggestions on the CPU front.

You won't see much difference between your current CPU and an E5200 @4GHz (which is not likely to happen).

What resolution are you using?

 

[quantumsheep]

Wasn't really looking for an improvement over my E6600 system, that's in the living room downstairs connected to my Pioneer plasma. This new system was for my bedroom!