£500 spec

Jasperado · 2 Feb 2011 at 21:12

Would this be an ok system for £500 ?

CPU:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 AM3

Operating System:
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

Motherboard:
Asus M4A87TD USB3

Memory:
8GB DDR3 1333mhz (4x 2GB)

Hard Drives:
1TB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s

Optical Drive:
22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA

Graphics card:
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB

Sound card:
Onboard 7.1 Audio

Case:
Xigmatek Asgard + 500W PSU

Aretenon · 2 Feb 2011 at 21:25

Yea pretty good.

However the preferable 8GB config is 2x4GB.

What 500W PSU is it?

Jasperado · 2 Feb 2011 at 21:31

Not sure of the make, just wondered if it was a half decent cheap rig for gaming etc. Thanks.

stulid · 2 Feb 2011 at 21:33

i just tried pricing up a similar build from ocuk, it goes over £500, so that is a good price, unless VAT is missing or something?

Greavesy · 2 Feb 2011 at 21:35

If your gaming i would definately recommending only buying 4gb of Ram and getting a better graphics card, you can always grab more ram later.
Look to get a GTX 460 or a HD 5850

Jasperado · 2 Feb 2011 at 22:44

It's actually pre built from another site.

stulid · 2 Feb 2011 at 22:47

thats not bad at all then

Rexton · 3 Feb 2011 at 00:20

Good price, had me confused for a second there

gdrules · 3 Feb 2011 at 10:10

Pretty good spec.

Although I would say don't bother with 8GB Ram, I highly doubt you'll ever legitimately pass 40% RAM Usage with that amount, waste of money imo.

Jasperado · 3 Feb 2011 at 17:00

Was either this or the " Titan Nero" From here.

zebedeee · 3 Feb 2011 at 22:05

phenom II are rather good but if your wanting to stay with the machine longer than 3-4 years i'd suggest goin with i7

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i've had another look at your future rig, and you may want a different case, i'm unsure to how the ati 5770 is with tempretures etc and you only have an inch of space left for air floor from the graphic card been just a few cm away from the front of the case, i know this cos i have measured my old rig and the dimensions are the same as the asgard case apart from the azgard case been approx 6 cm higher, but every other dimension is the same,
my old rig is an agp and has the 3850 inside, it only has a very small few cm left till it is touching the front of the case - the cards power ports-wire looks a little strained not much but a little as it's plugged in the end and curling round the front.
there is no air flow getting from underneath the card to above the card... so in light of this you may want to rethink the gcard you get or the case you get, i'm thinking the 5770 will need air flow as will your phenom II.

Jasperado · 4 Feb 2011 at 21:59

Thanks , nice to know the case might be an issue.

Jasperado · 5 Feb 2011 at 13:57

So with this am i better with the ATI Radion HD 5770 1gb the NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB or a NVIDIA Geforce 450 1gb?

Gary* · 5 Feb 2011 at 14:22

Jasperado said:
So with this am i better with the ATI Radion HD 5770 1gb the NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB or a NVIDIA Geforce 450 1gb?

GTX 460 1GB

6644kp · 5 Feb 2011 at 15:03

seems ok for a prebuilt

Jasperado · 5 Feb 2011 at 15:24

Thanks for your help.

kristmace · 5 Feb 2011 at 16:01

460 1GB would be a much better choice.

Good price, and a decent system