DamanC Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I was offering for us to build it for you. NSA. But hey, if you can do it, go right ahead. If you want, when you make your mind up, ill offer some pointers, or would that be against the trader police laws? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 I was offering for us to build it for you. NSA. But hey, if you can do it, go right ahead. If you want, when you make your mind up, ill offer some pointers, or would that be against the trader police laws? Well, as I said, we use it for general admin/office stuff, internet including youtube and flash games and stuff, playing music and occasionally watching programmes or films. Would quite like to have a headset mic plugged in at some point so Zoe can do some home based PA work. We never play games on it or do any fancy graphics design - I use Photoshop to edit my pics and that's about it. Ideally it would need to be futureproof to the extent that I can upgrade it with a few bits for the next few years without having to replace everything. I have a monitor/keyboard/mouse/speakers, and I don't think I'd bother with a new HDD although if someone else was building it for me I'd ask for a small HDD (or SSD if they're cheap enough now) with Windows 7 loaded, and I'd use my own HDDs or buy my own new for the media drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Ok, nice easy one Firstly make sure you invest in a decent case and power supply if you haven't already done so? Best of the lower end stuff is a coolermaster 330 Elite and a Coolermaster eXtreme power plus 460w PSU. Case has FPA for your mic and HS. Quiet units too so you will be able to move Motherboard - ASUS 775 P5KPL-AM SE - Integrated video card, will take lots of ram, PCI-E Slot for later down the line if you decide too, PCI-E x1 and PCI slot for expansion, IDE and SATA Ports, will take dual and quad core CPU 775 chip, has FPA header. Downside only DDR 2 RAM and no hardware RAID. RAM - Normally I would say 4GB out the box but with the recent price hike and the word budget its your call. With the phtochopping I would recomend 4GB. The motherboard has a good FSB so match something with it well, obviously depends what CPU you go for......... CPU - E6500 - Sat in a price bubble at the moment. Its £60, 2.9GHz and has a 1066FSB. Nothing else compares. Obviously if you go for a "celery" (Celeron) they only have a FSB of 800Mhz so ajust RAM accordingly. If you do take advantage of the 1066FSB then the RAM of recommendation is the Corsair XMS2 stuff (TWIN2X4096-8500C5C) Don't bother with SSD unless you have money to burn. They are great but just not quite there yet, not to mention the price. Velociraptors are still our choice for fast HDD but they are not cheap. Its a debate been around for a while now, it think when we start to see Gen 3 units appear Q3/Q4 this year will be the time to go SSD. Normal drives the Sammy spinpoints and seagate barracuda offerings are the pick of the bunch. All that can be done CHEAP and you will get a RAM and CPU upgrade out of it and be able to support all your current kit (unless you have more than 2 IDE devices?). The custom pc *ahem* case will last years. Hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edge Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 A crazy idea but what about a laptop? They are quite cheap now and you can get a better machine second hand although you did mention playing games which will mean a higher spec more expensive one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted February 2, 2010 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 Ok, nice easy one Hope that helps OK, how much to build me that with a small (100GB?) HDD and Windows 7 loaded? Will the 460W PSU support 3 HDDs OK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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