fastdude
Active Member
I have around £400 saved up in the bank and I will be getting more at Christmas (lovely, kind relatives) and so I have decided to build a low-budget PC for moderate gaming, media library storage, photo/video editing (non-HD), general web surfing, school, and everyday use. I am planning on Overclocking - heavily.
So here goes -
Case
SilverStone PS02B Precision
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H
CPU
Intel pentium G6950
RAM
Novatech XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800
GPU
Powercolor HD 5770 1GB
HSF
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
PSU
Corsair CX500W
HDD
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB
Optical Drive
Lite-on iHAS 524-98
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium
Total cost: About £550.
I have a separate budget for peripherals (VDU, keyboard, mouse, printer etc.)
What do you think? Well Balanced? Any alternate component suggestions will be welcome, but please don't try to change my whole build. I have an AM3 build as backup (similar to this, only with an AM3 Mobo and an Phenom II X3-720) in case one of you finds some reason why these particular components don't work well together/explode when in use), though I think thta scenario is unlikely. Bring it
So here goes -
Case
SilverStone PS02B Precision
Motherboard
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H
CPU
Intel pentium G6950
RAM
Novatech XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800
GPU
Powercolor HD 5770 1GB
HSF
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2
PSU
Corsair CX500W
HDD
Samsung SpinPoint F3 500GB
Optical Drive
Lite-on iHAS 524-98
OS
Windows 7 Home Premium
Total cost: About £550.
I have a separate budget for peripherals (VDU, keyboard, mouse, printer etc.)
What do you think? Well Balanced? Any alternate component suggestions will be welcome, but please don't try to change my whole build. I have an AM3 build as backup (similar to this, only with an AM3 Mobo and an Phenom II X3-720) in case one of you finds some reason why these particular components don't work well together/explode when in use), though I think thta scenario is unlikely. Bring it