Hello all.
Ive decided that I'm gonna take a stab at building my first PC.
Now I'm quite confident in the actual building of the thing (putting it together, modding and so on)
but I'm pretty sure I need a wee bit of advice with regards to what Im actually building with.
Ive gurrently got a system given to me (very kindly) by my fiances dad about 18 months ago, which comprises of an old ASUS Intel mobo (unsure of Serial), packing a celleron D that only accepts SDDR RAM. It also has a Tagan 480w PSU, a 120gb IDE HDD (for program files), a DVD writer, and a hand full of 80mm Enermax fans. I also have a 320gb SATA HDD thats currently in an External caddy.
I will be taking the DVD drive and the HDDs forward to the new build.
I WAS also going to take the Tagan 480w forward to the new build as its the newest part of the system, but some guys on OC Forums told me that Tagan were a load of crap and I should probably invest in a new one. What do you guys reckon to this???
So after much advice seeking, and generally only being told to spend more money (which wont be available- Budget is dead set at £350/£400 at a push if I do the dishes all year) I've taken suggestions, and put my own input in there and come up with the following system.
First however, the system is intended for heavy photoshop abuse (large images, up to 20 layer projects), some work in adobe premiere, some potential work in cubase, some oldskool CS.S, and other media PC general functions with the view to a VERY mild OC in the future.
I cant post links or images so PLEASE take the time to look at these for me;
-AMD athlon 2 X4 620
-ASUS M4A 785D-M PRO
-550w Antec Basiq Plus PSU (modular)
-4gb (2x2gb) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2, PC2-8500 (5-6-6-18)
-Xigmatek Red Scorpion S1 283 CPU Cooler
-Antec 300
-Asaka 120mm AK-174 CB (2 of- The case comes with 2 antec fans installed)
£347.13 from Scan for all the above (I'll be collecting as Im only 20mins from their HQ)
Let me know what you think.
If you have an alternative basket to show me, TRY to keep it to £350.
And also, IS it really neccessary to renew my PSU as that £35 could get me a fan controller in there to boot!!!!!
Thanks in advance all,
From your Noo-est Noob