I've been meaning to buy a new computer for some time, having not bothered upgrading my current one for 2 or 3 years now.
I was checking around myself for some good builds but I didn't turn up a whole lot so ended up looking at a few prebuilts and found this:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
Operating System: Microsoft® Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Motherboard: Asus M4A87TD USB3
Memory: 8GB DDR3 1333mhz (4x 2GB)
Hard Drives: 1TB S-ATAII 3.0Gb/s
Optical Drive: 22x DVD±RW DL S-ATA
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 1,280MB
Sound card: Onboard 7.1 Audio
Case: Xigmatek Asgard
PSU: 700W EZCool Tornado
+ 3 year warranty
For £700, which conveniently is exactly the amount I've managed to scrape together (Well, £720). Knowing the general idea that prebuilts are often exceedingly overpriced I had a look at prices for the components bought seperately for building myself but (On sites where it was easy enough to be all bought from one place and delivered in one go to save hassle waiting for some component to turn up a week late at least) found that the components were generally only £10-20 cheaper in total and that's before spare/extra cables and the such, which to me doesn't seem worth the potential hassle that buying seperately and building could bring (A friend managed to break a connector off the motherboard or something like that, can't imagine how.)
Is there anything significantly better I could be getting for either that saved £10-20 or an entirely different build for £700 which would be better value for money?
This is for gaming, mostly making sure I can still run things well in the next few years since my current old thing is starting to show its age with components from 2005-2007 and XP.
The case, PSU, and most likely the RAM sucks. Build it, no other option.
[editline]19th November 2010[/editline]
Oh and don't get a hexacore CPU or 8 GBs of RAM unless you are doing rendering. However you are gaming so you would be better off with a GTX 580 and an i5 with 4 GBs of RAM.
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