The best pc for £600 what can you suggest!

[AtomicFuse]

Riiight, my friend wants be to build him a PC and sais he has a budget of £600
Now that is for everything apart from the monitor! So included XP Home OEM! If you guys could suggest me a system that would be great, he's not messing around heh so im going to order it tomorrow with him! Any help would be greattttt
Atomic!

[AtomicFuse]

Actually sorry im being lazy...I'll suggest some components!! heh! then if anyone could say how wrong I am or 'nice that would be good atomic' then that would be great!!

[AtomicFuse]

Ok heres what I got so far!
ASUS A8N5X NF4
580W Hiper Type-R Modular PSU
1 Gig Corsair Value
200Gig Western Digital HDD
Some standard DVD-RW and DVD Rom drives
X1800XT from OCuK (£170)
AMD Athlon 64 3700+ Processor
Thermaltake Soprano window case

Urr I think thats everything!!

[Noni]

Swap the 3700+ for a 3800X2 from Lowest on web. (£170 deliverd)

Swap the PSU for http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=271185

Swap the mboard for (the chipset fan is loud on the asus)- http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=292146

This HD- http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=260257

This RAM- http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=291364

To save some money, get a ANTEC SONATA 2 with the 450W psu for £70 from OCuk with the card.

[AtomicFuse]

Ahh thanks, erm I think I'll go for this

AMD Athlon 64 3700+ £130
1Gig Corsair Value £60
Hiper PSU £60
Mobo Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 £40
Samsung HDD £55
XFX 7600GT XXX £150
Akasa A64 FX 57 HSF £20
And a case

[dave87]

I would be tempted to go for 2 hard disks - especially if your friend hasn't got much experience in PCs - one for the OS and the second one for data etc. 80GB is more than enough for a windows install and programs - data could then be handled by another (perhaps 200gb, though 300gb is better value for money) hard disk.

The Hiper PSU's are pretty good, and single core makes sense considering that very few programs actually fully use the capabilities of dual cores

Just a final thought - what Case are you considering, as you really want one with good airflow to increase the component life (my old system had no cooling on the Hard Disks, got pretty toasty & died ), so look for ones with 120mm fans, preferably front & back.

Hope this helps a bit

Dave

[Noni]

Get the freezer 64 pro heatsink, much better than the akasa one.

[AtomicFuse]

Yeh thanks, the case I think will be a Thermaltake Soprano. He wants one with a window heh! Erm I'll order it tomorrow and see how it goes! Thanks again