Hey folks,
Like many others, I'm glad to have finally found Hexus! I've been building and playing around with systems for 6 years or so.. This Christmas i'm building a budget system for a friend, and i'd like to run the specs past you guys to make sure its up to scratch, if you would be so kind as to share your opinion
The priority for the system is reliability and of course cost. He dosn't plan to upgrade any time soon, but plans to play some older games. I've skimped on the case, cosmetics being the last consideration after speed, size and reliability. I'm trying to build this with a budget of 300 quid.
Case: Casecom KL-400 Midi Tower
CPU: AMD (Venice) Athlon 64 3500 939pin
RAM: Corsair Value Ram, 512mb, DDR400/ PC3200 (Trying to bump this to 1GB)
GPU: Geforce 7300gt 256mb PCIE
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-K8-NF(I already have this board laying around, so it'll save a good 40-50 quid)
HDD: Maxtor 200GB SATA(Diamond max 10, I believe)
Optical: NEC Combo
PSU: I was going to go for a ThermalTake TR2 470Watt from MicroDirect, but they're out of stock and I can't find any at an agreeable price-- I was looking at the 330watt Tagans, but that seems slightly under powered.. Can anyone recomend something more suitable around the 30 pound mark?
TIA and seasons greetings! ^.^
v0x.