Budget PC

2009-07-08 09:42:23

#1

Stimey: +786|6382|Ontario | Canada

So I can't stand using a fucking P4 anymore.
That being said, I don't have a ton of money.
All being said; this is what I have come up with:

Gonna swap the PSU for a 500W I have lying around, and put a 4830 in.
And I know there isn't a disc drive, I'll pick one up from the local store.

Thoughts? Improvements? All help appreciated :)

2009-07-08 09:43:54

#2

Swan: The town bike; +54|5709

holy shipping batman

2009-07-08 09:47:57

#3

Stimey: +786|6382|Ontario | Canada

yeah its a pain in the ass to ship cases to canada

2009-07-08 09:48:09

#4

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6676|Finland

E5200
F7P
Gigabyte GA-EP43-DS3L
2x2GB DDR2 800mhz or 1066mhz (the cheaper one)
Samsung F1 or WD Caviar Black HDD
CM Elite 330

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-07-08 09:48:38

#5

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6844|SE London

4GB RAM would be a good idea and not add much to the price. 160GB hard drive seems too small. They've typically got a very high price per GB. Why not buy a case without a PSU if you have one already? Do you already have a GPU?

2009-07-08 09:51:07

#6

Stimey: +786|6382|Ontario | Canada

Bertster7 wrote:
4GB RAM would be a good idea and not add much to the price. 160GB hard drive seems too small. They've typically got a very high price per GB. Why not buy a case without a PSU if you have one already? Do you already have a GPU?

Well the PSU is in my moms computer, but she doesn't need 500W.
I'm going to put a 4830 in, I have it lying in a box on my printer right now.

I really don't need more than 160GB anyways.

2009-07-08 09:53:48

#7

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6676|Finland

Stimey wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
4GB RAM would be a good idea and not add much to the price. 160GB hard drive seems too small. They've typically got a very high price per GB. Why not buy a case without a PSU if you have one already? Do you already have a GPU?
Well the PSU is in my moms computer, but she doesn't need 500W.
I'm going to put a 4830 in, I have it lying in a box on my printer right now.

I really don't need more than 160GB anyways.

the 320GB is like couple bucks more anyway.

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-07-08 09:53:53

#8

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6844|SE London

Stimey wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
4GB RAM would be a good idea and not add much to the price. 160GB hard drive seems too small. They've typically got a very high price per GB. Why not buy a case without a PSU if you have one already? Do you already have a GPU?
Well the PSU is in my moms computer, but she doesn't need 500W.
I'm going to put a 4830 in, I have it lying in a box on my printer right now.

I really don't need more than 160GB anyways.

Makes sense. I'd still recommend 4GB RAM and a bigger hard drive, 250GB minimum. Smaller drives are slower and having lots of free space on a drive makes it massively faster. Hard drive speed is a very often overlooked factor and having a lot of space on your hard drive is typically a more effective and particularly more cost effective way of getting good speed from your drive than going out and buying raptors or similar.

2009-07-08 09:56:46

#9

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6921|BC, Canada

Stimey wrote:
yeah its a pain in the ass to ship cases to canada

Order it from www.directcanada.com over 300 and free shipping... means better components for the same price.

2009-07-08 10:10:46

#10

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6921|BC, Canada

just put together the same pc there but with the g41 instead of g31 mobo and 500GB HDD... 300 bucks with free shipping.

2009-07-08 10:21:25

#11

Stimey: +786|6382|Ontario | Canada

Nic wrote:
just put together the same pc there but with the g41 instead of g31 mobo and 500GB HDD... 300 bucks with free shipping.

Yeah I just did lol, thanks

2009-07-08 10:21:55

#12

-Whiteroom-: Pineapplewhat; +572|6921|BC, Canada

np

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