Budget machine

[RidleyRockets]

AMD Athlon II X4 630 Socket AM3 2.8GHz 2MB L2 Cache Retail Boxed Processor
£84.53

Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD 770 Socket AM3 6 Channel Audio Out ATX Motherboard
£64.45

PowerColor HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 VGA DVI HDMI PCI-E Graphics Card
£90.49

Arctic Cooling Freezer-64-LP
£13.77

G-Skill 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz
£79.91

LG GH22NS50 22x SATA DVD±RW
£16.89

Seagate ST3500418AS 500GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm
£35.87

Coolermaster Elite 335 Case
£26.80

Corsair 400W CX PSU
£39.07

It all comes to £451.78. I'm not sure on the PSU though so any input on that would be cool. It's main use will be photoshop followed by games and pornography.

Any suggestions or changes?

 

[Acepilotf14]

Going to need more wattage for the 4850 on your PSU. 500 watt at least. I got this. Don't know what price they'll have it in UK places.

 

[Viperidae]

No. The 400CX is fine. 30a on the 12v rail and 90%+ efficiency is ungodly from a budget PSU. It's one of the best on the market.

Plus, Athenapower? Really?

 

[Acepilotf14]

Eh, working fine for me.

 

[RidleyRockets]

No. The 400CX is fine. 30a on the 12v rail and 90%+ efficiency is ungodly from a budget PSU. It's one of the best on the market.

Plus, Athenapower? Really?

Cheers for the advice.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Quality of PSU is also important, I would also say that 400W is quite low but you have chosen a Corsair PSU...one of the top manufacturers right now and highly highly recommended for PSU longevity. No point going for unknown makes, a solid PSU is so important.

Solid budget build though, don't forget your Arctic silver thermal paste!

 

[RidleyRockets]

It's almost all of it from a bit-tech november hardware guide but with a slightly better mother board and cpu but a slightly worse case.

I wasn't sure the psu would be enough since i was looking at a more powerful cpu.

I don't know wether to pull to the trigger on it now or wait out for christmas deals, but then again ram and card prices could change a little for the worse in the mean time.

 

[VirusType2]

Pessimist here, a quad core motherboard will recommend about 450w. You should be fine in that regard.

Not sure about the video card. Could be a problem for gaming, but I think you'll be alright to run a desktop.

The harder you push the CPU and GPU, the more power would be needed. So gaming would be pushing them both.

 

[RidleyRockets]

The next best budget option is a 500W OCZ StealthXStream for £48.07 which would save me a future upgrade.

 

[Viperidae]

It's up to you.

As for the deals, depends on your country. Canada is more boxing day-oriented, whereas US prefers Black Friday. No idea about UK.

 

[VirusType2]

I just don't know shit. I probably shouldn't have commented at all. :3

However, reading reviews at newegg, I see many people with High Performance graphics cards going with 750 watt PSU's. So probably research the card you have selected, and get more information on its power requirements.

 

[Asus]

Solid budget build though, don't forget your Arctic silver thermal paste!

Their coolers come with their own pre-applied thermal paste (MX-2).
temps VS Arctic Silver 5

PSU looks good.
In this review they show a 4850 GPU with a more powerful quad core CPU than what you are looking at running @ 256 watts.
If that was all from the +12v rail (it was not, some was off the 5 and 3.3 rails) then that would be 21amps needed. (260w/12v= amps) The 400w corsair has 30Amps on the +12v (CPU, GPU use this mostly). Plenty of power for that system.

 

[Schall]

I have a 250W.

*sigh*

 

[TheOneFreeMan]

I have a 250W.

*sigh*

Were there ever even computers that could run on that thing? :-P