mantadog
Superhero Level Poster
About the 10th thread iv posted asking for advice so sorry in advance...
In theory i now have a budget of about £1200 against my original £600 thanks to a nice little wager on the winner of the F1 world championship.
I have had advice on a spec maxed out at £600 before and am making 1 last post to seek advise on anything i could add for a few quid that would be worth it now i have a little room for it.
I have chosen the gt430 because i DO NOT inten to buy any new games and all games i have are well over 2 years old - and i understand that this card will handle them fine. i would rather max out other components and leave room for a graphics card upgrade when and if required in the future.
Case
COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 965 (3.40GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard
ASUS® M4A87TD/USB3: DUAL DDR3,SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT430 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
640GB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD6400AARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply & Case Cooling
450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£29)
Uses - the usual internet and office programmes + fairly low spec gaming, minimal photo editing and hd video playback.
For future proofing would i be better to upgrade the cpu to an intel one or a 6 core amd now i have some slight headroom in the budget.
If i was to add a 2nd hard drive would i notice any read/write performance increase from a 64mb cached drive over the basic 8mb one as it would only be used as a backup and never really be used for accessing files to work on?
Thanks and i promise this is the last one, as im gonan buy next week now i have the money.
In theory i now have a budget of about £1200 against my original £600 thanks to a nice little wager on the winner of the F1 world championship.
I have had advice on a spec maxed out at £600 before and am making 1 last post to seek advise on anything i could add for a few quid that would be worth it now i have a little room for it.
I have chosen the gt430 because i DO NOT inten to buy any new games and all games i have are well over 2 years old - and i understand that this card will handle them fine. i would rather max out other components and leave room for a graphics card upgrade when and if required in the future.
Case
COOLERMASTER ELITE 310 BLUE CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 965 (3.40GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3) - BLACK EDITION
Motherboard
ASUS® M4A87TD/USB3: DUAL DDR3,SATA 6.0GB/s, USB 3.0
Memory (RAM)
4GB SAMSUNG DDR3 DUAL-DDR3 1333MHz (2 X 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT430 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
640GB WD CAVIAR GREEN WD6400AARS, SATA 3 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT
Power Supply & Case Cooling
450W Quiet 80 PLUS Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£29)
Uses - the usual internet and office programmes + fairly low spec gaming, minimal photo editing and hd video playback.
For future proofing would i be better to upgrade the cpu to an intel one or a 6 core amd now i have some slight headroom in the budget.
If i was to add a 2nd hard drive would i notice any read/write performance increase from a 64mb cached drive over the basic 8mb one as it would only be used as a backup and never really be used for accessing files to work on?
Thanks and i promise this is the last one, as im gonan buy next week now i have the money.