building new AMD pc help please (ATTN Cat the Fifth)

[jerichoy2j]

looking to building a new pc budget is £400-500

want phenom ii x6 as much ram as possible and a good quiet cooler

any help will be appriciated

[Pob255]

Planned usage?

not playing games? then a 785g motherboard, hard drive to your taste (Western Digital or Samsung are general recomendations) decent 400-450w psu, 120mm fan based tower cooler, sata DVDrw, case to taste, as much ram as you can afford.

[jerichoy2j]

not playing games all , wanna encode some video

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The OP can get free postage from Scan:

http://forums.hexus.net/scan-care-he...-delivery.html

I would get the following parts:

Phenom II X6 1075T - around £152

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/amd-p...hz-125w-retail

Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H - around £79

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

This has USB3.0,SATA3.0 and the HD4250 IGP which can run one VGA monitor and one DVI monitor.

Corsair Memory XMS3 8GB DDR3 PC3-10600 (1333) Dual Channel Desktop - around £112

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/8gb%2...connector-160v

Samsung SH-S223C/BEBE - around £13

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx

NZXT BETA EVO - around £35

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/nzxt-...r-case-w-o-psu

Corsair CX400W- around £33

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/p...U-400CXUK.html

You can get cashback from TopCashBack and Quidco on Novatech purchases.

The total comes to around £424 excluding any hard drives and a copy of Windows.

I would suggest getting a Samsung F3 1TB but I assume if you are doing HD video encoding you would be looking at some sort of RAID setup??

[jerichoy2j]

sorry mate 1 more things i need to run 2x dvi hd monitors so prolly need a card

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

IIRC,with an HD4350 or HD5450 you can enable SurroundView which means you could run upto 4 monitors with the IGP.

Alternatively you could use a VGA-DVI converter for the IGP so you could connect one of your DVI monitors.

This graphics card does have a pair of DVI outputs:

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/1gb-x...ual-dvi-tv-out

It is on offer until tomorrow morning for £36:

http://www.scan.co.uk/TodayOnly/Index.aspx