My £600 Gaming Rig

[tek]

Ok I've finally decided on components for my £600 Gaming Rig, I just wanted to make sure everything is compatiable and the best I can get for the price. I'm buying everything except soundcard and speakers, they will come later. So here it is, all from ebuyer:

Case & PSU: Antec SLK1650B Mini Tower Black - 350 Watt PSU
£46.99 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=66124

Keyboard: Microsoft OEM Black MultiMedia Keyboard - PS2
£10.20 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=82987

Mouse: Microsoft Black PS2/USB 3-Button Optical Wheel Mouse-OEM
£7.74 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=82520

CPU: AMD (Venice) Athlon 64Bit 3000+ Socket 939pin 512k L2cache 90nm Retail Boxed Processor
£102.84 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=88105

Memory: Viking 512mb DDR PC3200 400MHz 184pin Memory Module (buying 2)
£31.28 inc VAT
£31.28 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=78548

Hard Drive: Maxtor 6Y080M0 Plus 9 80Gb Serial ATA 7200rpm - OEM
£38.80 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=48520

Graphics Card: PNY Verto GeForce 6 6600GT PCI-E 128MB GDDR3 (G66600GN1F12XPB) Retail Box
£116.38 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=81343

Monitor: Acer AL1715S 17" TFT 450:1 8ms 'Slim Format' - Silver & Black - 3 Year on Site Warranty
£137.99 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=87636

Drives: Philips DVDR1640 16x DVD/R/RW Dual Layer Internal IDE Black - OEM
£31.72 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=82921

Motherboard: FOXCONN CK804K8MA-KS SKT939 NFORCE4 PCI-Ex16 5.1 AUDIO mATX
£55.30 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=85703

Order Total £623.26
including Delivery

Budget gaming system. Not the easiest thing to do.

 

[Me__2001]

thats not a bad system considering the price, should work fine

 

[Ian]

Looks like a good setup - except I'm not sure about the motherboard and I think you might be able to get a bigger (and better) harddrive for about £15 more. I've not heard of Foxconn before, which isn't a good sign usually - but it might still be a good board (worth looking into though).

Thanks going to be a good system for £600!

 

[BaseLine9]

I'd try and stretch to a better MoBo, will help no end when you want to do any upgrades

Otherwise all is sweet !

 

[tek]

I'm not too bothered about the size of the HDD as I will be putting most large files onto dvd. As for foxconn I found this website and info on them http://www.foxconn.com/about/introduction.asp

 

[tek]

If I can manage to find a little extra cash do you think this mobo would be a better choice ?
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=87032

 

[Me__2001]

the gigabyte board would be my preference

 

[Ian]

Yup, I've had no problems with GigaByte before.

 

[ChristopherP]

Looks like a good setup - except I'm not sure about the motherboard and I think you might be able to get a bigger (and better) harddrive for about £15 more. I've not heard of Foxconn before, which isn't a good sign usually - but it might still be a good board (worth looking into though).

Thanks going to be a good system for £600!

FoxConn make alot of components for the bigger badder companies out there... e.g. look on any Abit motherboard, the I/O sockets have "FOXCONN" written all over them...

 

[psd99]

yes i like the look of your system
but i reccomending geting a bigger hardrive

go for 160gb
and get yourself a seagate or a samsung!

they both come with 3 year warranties
and claim to be silent drives

 

[KGB-911]

the gigabyte board would be my preference

Gigabyte are terrible, the mobo has died twice on me, and i know someone that had two gigabyte computers die on him within 2 months of purchase!

 

[psd99]

Gigabyte are terrible, the mobo has died twice on me, and i know someone that had two gigabyte computers die on him within 2 months of purchase!

i am going to third that!

id stay away from them too!
ive had a gigabyte die on me too

had to sell it for a tenner on ebay

 

[crazylegs]

I would go for an ASUS Mobo if you can, ebuyer do stock them...The Philips DVDR1640 16x DVD/R/RW Dual Layer Internal IDE Black is a stonking buy..I have one and it is absolutely superb and whisper quiet in operation...

As for the hard drive do yourself a favour and go for at least a 120 gig Seagate or Samsung it would be a false economy to go for anything smaller, you'd be replacing it in 3 months if you did and there only a tenner dearer....go-on you know it makes sense (as Del would say)..

The rest well looks sweet to me...

 

[Me__2001]

i'd always thought that gigabyte made good boards, i'll put them on my list of people to stay away from, i have an Asus board and would recommend one of those then

 

[tek]

Thanks for all the advice guys. I will look into upping my space but to be honest I will be stroing all my large files on DVD. I'm tempted to stick with the foxconn as its a good budget board.

 

[Alf]

hmm... i havent had a problem with gigabyte boards ever.
perhaps they dont like you psd

 

[psd99]

hmm... i havent had a problem with gigabyte boards ever.
perhaps they dont like you psd

yes i was thinking that too

i mean a motherboard not liking me fills me with sadness Alf!

 

[tek]

Hey guys! I've been doing some comparisons and I need your opinions again please. If I changed the mobo to:

ASUS P4S800 SiS648FX Socket 478 800FSB 3DDR 400 ATA133 NOT SATA ATX Motherboard w/ Audio/LAN
£36.23 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=49473

and then had the AGP version of the PNY 6600GT and this processor:

Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz Prescott Skt478 FSB800 1MB Cache Retail Boxed CPU With 3 Year Warranty
£115.81 inc VAT
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=58516

Would I be looking at a better system or do you suggest I stick with the amd64 and pci-e system? I will be using the foxconn mobo as well.

 

[BaseLine9]

If your going for a 478 set up get the Abit IC7 motherboard

The AMD set up will be better than Intel's 478