Budget: £800~ Or £1200~

I am currently using a 5 year old pc which was bought brand new for £1000 and has served me well. I am now looking to upgrade and would like to build my new computer myself.

Before going on further i must say that i do ont use my computer for playing games and i do not intend to, however anything can happen ,hence the title.

I have never built a computer before and am very keen on doing so but it is not the building part i need help on, it is choosing the parts.

The budget must include everything for a working pc and also windows xp so that includes the monitor , keyboard and mouse...

There is one thing i must have which is the coolermaster r830 case (the balck one). Also it must have an intel core 2 processor (maybe the 2.4ghz one???) which i would be keen on overclocking to around 3.0ghz

Also I am thinking of having two hard drives (around 250gb each) although I am not sure on the technicalities I belive ican use one as backup so that whatever i save on one it also saves on the other?? And maybe around 2.0ghz ram

Please can you help me in deciding wether it is worth the extra money and which parts to choose.

Thanks for reading

 

The processor you want sounds like the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600. Newegg.com lists it at about 225 dollars US. You can buy it as a combo package with an ASUS P5WDG2-WS PRO Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 975X ATX Server Motherboard for about 490 dollars US. COOLER MASTER Stacker 830 Evolution RC-830-KKN2-GP Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case sells for about 260 dollars US. That comes to about 750 dollars US. You will also need a power supply, RAM, (the Asus mobo maxes at 8 GB), audio is onboard but you will need a display/video card. Since I am getting a little out of my league here, and I have that special someone to be with, I will leave it to the rest. Hope one day I will be contemplating doing what you are.:cool
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Optiarc/NEC AD-7173A-0B 18xDVD±R, 8xDVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RWx6, DVD-RAMx12, IDE, Black, OEM, Labelflash
£19.48


Microsoft Windows XP PRO Edition SP2b (Release 2) OEM - Single Pack
£88.70


Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache, Retail
£140.60


Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - P4 up to 4.4GHz - S775 Dual Core / Core2Duo Ready
£12.16


Zalman VF900-CU Quiet Dual Heatpipe VGA GPU Cooler Pure Copper
£19.81


256MB Asus 8500GT, Silent, PCI-E (x16), Mem 800 MHz, GPU 459 MHz, 16 Pipes, D-Sub/DVI-I/HDTV
£62.26


Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP iP965, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX
£109.63


Antec P182 Advanced PERFORMANCE ONE SERIES Super Midi Tower Case, Black (no PSU)
£82.24


320 Gb HGST (IBM/Hitachi) HDT725032VLA360 Deskstar T7K500, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5ms, NCQ
£53.25


2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-12
£70.08


520W Corsair HX Series Modular PSU, ATX, EPS12V, whisper quiet, 5 year warranty
£68.02


19" LG L194WT Silver/Black Widescreen LCD, 1440x900, 2000:1, 300 cd/m2, 5 ms, VESA
£124.77


Net Total £724.26

Carriage £24.72

V.A.T. £131.07

TOTAL £880.05

That is sort of the £800 spec but not sure if some parts like RAM are alright

Also not to sure which CPU to choose because originally i wanted the e6400 (2.4ghz one) but now ther's so many more but i would like to overclock to about 3.0ghz so if theres anything missing or needs changing please tell me.




Optiarc/NEC AD-7173A-0B 18xDVD±R, 8xDVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RWx6, DVD-RAMx12, IDE, Black, OEM, Labelflash
£19.48


Microsoft Windows XP PRO Edition SP2b (Release 2) OEM - Single Pack
£88.70


Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache, Retail
£140.60


Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - P4 up to 4.4GHz - S775 Dual Core / Core2Duo Ready
£12.16


Zalman VF900-CU Quiet Dual Heatpipe VGA GPU Cooler Pure Copper
£19.81


CoolerMaster Stacker RC-832 Black Tower Case w/o PSU
£164.50


256MB BFG Technology 8600GT Overclocked, PCI-E(x16), 1400MHz GDDR3, GPU 565MHz, 2 x DVI/HDTV, HDCP
£91.05


Asus Commando i965, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX
£135.11


2 x 500 Gb Samsung HD501LJ Spinpoint T, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms, NCQ
£136.18


620W Corsair HX Series Modular SLi PSU, ATX, EPS 12V, whisper quiet, 5 year warranty
£97.51


19" LG L1900R Black LCD, 1280x1024, 2000:1, 300 cd/m2, 4 ms
£183.29


4Gb (2x2Gb) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-18, EPP
£164.08


Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio Sound Card OEM
£27.60


Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Speaker System Dolby EX DTS ES Directsound Ready
£59.97




Net Total £1,140.47

Carriage £23.61

V.A.T. £203.71

TOTAL £1,367.79

This is like a dream spec lol, but i don't know wether its worth spending all that money if i will not be using it to its full potential. Maybe i could come to a comprimise. Also please help me about the processor and please help me to refine my parts list and come to one final parts list.

Could someone please tell me what the difference would be between the two pc's, is it really a great difference????

Thanks for reading