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he has a corsair psu http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...Corsair+400W+CX+Power+Supply+?productId=34003
i helped him pick this out when the psu in his system failed
good choice...
he has a corsair psu http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...Corsair+400W+CX+Power+Supply+?productId=34003
i helped him pick this out when the psu in his system failed
yer i know i picked it lol
anyway back to the build
what are your thoughts an an athlon x2 5400+ as the cpu
or even this is a decent cpu for the price
http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(38173)AMD-CPU-AM2-6000-Athlon-64-X2-Dual-Core-Retail.aspx
yer well he is buying it all after x mas
well if he where to go Intel what kind of processor could he get for the money
i am not adamant amd yet i only suggested it cos i have an amd chip and i find no problems he has used my pc and said it runs fast enough , i made this thread so other ideas could be bounced around so please by all means show me what sort of intel stuff can be had for smaller prices ,
dont worry about prices etc i can convert them or whatever is needed
he is adamant he wants a new build i dont blame him really even with 1gb ram my parents pentium d 2.53ghz isnt wonderful for multitasking even after a completely clean boot
anyway intel sell cpu's like this
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Comp...re+E2220+2.4GHz+(Retail+775)+?productId=31124
looks to me like a stripped down core 2 duo how do you think that would compare to a simillarly priced amd chip
and plus he will have the spare money and nothing else to blow it on he has an xbox and a ps3 he was offered that his parents buy him one for x mas but i said he would have more fun and get a better machine if he built one himself so he went with that
would the 800mhz really cripple performance that much im speaking to him now and he dosent want to do anything new that he dosent already do with his current comp he just wants to do it faster and maybe simultaneously
stuff like
downloading films
transcoding them to dvd
watchinf videos
internet
you tube this is the basic sort of stuff
then there is office apps and media player etc #
and he will only be running windows xp