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System Name | COLOSSUS-MK4 |
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Processor | E8400 @4.4 GHz - FSB @550 MHZ |
Motherboard | Asus P5K Premium (Black Pearl) |
Cooling | Xigmatek HDT-S1283 |
Memory | 2x1GB Geil BlckDrgn 800 @1158 5-5-5-18 |
Video Card(s) | 8800GT 512MB @740/1782/2080 |
Storage | Hitachi T7K250 250GB & 7200.10 Seagate 250GB |
Display(s) | Gateway FPD1975W 19" Widescreen |
Case | Antec 1200 |
Audio Device(s) | Xi-FI Xtreme Audio |
Power Supply | CoolerMaster IGreen 500W |
Software | XP Home SP3 |
Benchmark Scores | SuperPi: 10.563 Sciencemark: 2563.14 |
The £400 <Beige> Silver Monster
To anyone who's interested I am going to attempt my first build as I finally have just enough funds to support it.
Although from the title of this thread you can see that the funds are not that much
However I am determined to prevail and I will try and document it and update this as much as possible and hopefully get some answers to some ineveitable problems that WILL arise
How can you make it for £400? I hear you say. How could you make it any good?
Well the answer is simple....I can't. No but seriously I'm considering this a constant work in progress and I will slowly upgrade it past its original form. (That case is going to have to go!) Remeber that I am also currently and have gamed on my laptop (see sys specs) so I'm used to not necessarily cutting edge performance.
The specs (atm) are:
some incredibly rubbish Jetway mobo
An AMD 1600XP
256mb DDR
Riva TNT
160watt PSU
CD rom drive(not R/RW)
20Gb 4100rpm HDD
It is going to be (hopefully)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Socket AM2 (And yes I am going to oc the hell out of it) EDIT: now X2 4600
Arctic Cooling (AC-FRZ-64P) Freezer64 Pro (because this case has crappy fans and the cpu would probably blow up without it)
Corsair (CM2X1024-5400C4) 1024MB, 4-4-4-12 (upgrade to 2Gb this when next cash injection arrives)
Gigabyte GA M57SLI-S4
Western Digital WD2000JS Caviar SE 200GB 7200RPM SATAII/300 8MB Cache£35.10
Linksys Wireless 54mbps PCI Adapter Card
Coolermaster eXtreme Power 500W PSU
ATI X850XT PE (upgrade to DX10 when they are cheaper and I have more cash - will probably give this to a mate who is running on SIS unichrome gfx ) EDIT: Inno3D 7600GT EDIT: upgraded to X1900GT
Have a good laugh at my expense at the case and current internals. I got it off my Gran - how humiliating
EDIT: Final Pricing after ordered
Price up so far
Cpu: £71.77
Mobo: £67
Gfx: £65
Case+PSU: £38 (made a deal for the two together)
HDD: £45
DVD: £23
RAM: £47
Total: £356.77
What a pwnage of a price! And proof that a gaming PC does not have to cost the Earth
3DMark06: 4309(with 7600GT)
3DMark06: 5793(with X1900GT Rev.1)
3DMark06: ~6700(with X1950XTX)
Project Completed
To anyone who's interested I am going to attempt my first build as I finally have just enough funds to support it.
Although from the title of this thread you can see that the funds are not that much
However I am determined to prevail and I will try and document it and update this as much as possible and hopefully get some answers to some ineveitable problems that WILL arise
How can you make it for £400? I hear you say. How could you make it any good?
Well the answer is simple....I can't. No but seriously I'm considering this a constant work in progress and I will slowly upgrade it past its original form. (That case is going to have to go!) Remeber that I am also currently and have gamed on my laptop (see sys specs) so I'm used to not necessarily cutting edge performance.
The specs (atm) are:
some incredibly rubbish Jetway mobo
An AMD 1600XP
256mb DDR
Riva TNT
160watt PSU
CD rom drive(not R/RW)
20Gb 4100rpm HDD
It is going to be (hopefully)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Socket AM2 (And yes I am going to oc the hell out of it) EDIT: now X2 4600
Arctic Cooling (AC-FRZ-64P) Freezer64 Pro (because this case has crappy fans and the cpu would probably blow up without it)
Corsair (CM2X1024-5400C4) 1024MB, 4-4-4-12 (upgrade to 2Gb this when next cash injection arrives)
Gigabyte GA M57SLI-S4
Western Digital WD2000JS Caviar SE 200GB 7200RPM SATAII/300 8MB Cache£35.10
Linksys Wireless 54mbps PCI Adapter Card
Coolermaster eXtreme Power 500W PSU
ATI X850XT PE (upgrade to DX10 when they are cheaper and I have more cash - will probably give this to a mate who is running on SIS unichrome gfx ) EDIT: Inno3D 7600GT EDIT: upgraded to X1900GT
Have a good laugh at my expense at the case and current internals. I got it off my Gran - how humiliating
EDIT: Final Pricing after ordered
Price up so far
Cpu: £71.77
Mobo: £67
Gfx: £65
Case+PSU: £38 (made a deal for the two together)
HDD: £45
DVD: £23
RAM: £47
Total: £356.77
What a pwnage of a price! And proof that a gaming PC does not have to cost the Earth
3DMark06: 4309(with 7600GT)
3DMark06: 5793(with X1900GT Rev.1)
3DMark06: ~6700(with X1950XTX)
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