My new PC

[Edward lV]

Hello,

Can some knowlageable person tell me if these components are compatable and if there any good?

Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P, AMD 790X, AM3, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR3 1666(OC), SATA 3Gb/s, SATA RAID, ATX

RAM
2GB (2x1GB) SuperTalent TwinPack DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz) 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 7-7-7-18

Processor

AMD Athlon II X2 250, Regor Core, S AM3, 3.0GHz, 512KB x 2 Cache, FSB/HT 2000MHz, 65W, Retail

Case (dont know if this makes a difference)

Colours IT CIT1007, Black MicroATX Case, SECC, Headphone/ Mic In/ 2x USB 2.0, 450W PSU

Hard drive

500GB Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 Deskstar7K1000.C, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5 ms

I have a sapphire HD 3850 graphics card but i dont think theres any issues there. I also have a Disk thingy.

EDIT: you might realise im on a low budget (£300 max) So if you have any suggestions for anything better in this price range go ahead please

[Freddie]

You might as well get this hard drive, Samsung Spinpoint F3. It's a single platter design which makes it very fast and should be relatively quiet and power efficient.

As for the rest of the PC, well if you can get that for £300 then go for it. It won't be great by any means and the PSU is one that's supplied with a case so if you plan to do replace the video card with something more powerful in the future you might have to upgrade that as well.

[Edward lV]

Thanks. Im trusting you btw because I realy have no Idea about this kind of stuff

[hypo]

What do you plan to use the machine for?

[Roman_Man#3]

You could save 30 pounds by going with the MA770T-UD3P instead: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/GIGAB...770T-UD3P-MOBO

For a budget oriented computer such as this one it would make more sense than the 790XT. Then upgrade the case + power supply with that 30 dollars. You also don't need that RAM, that is pretty heavy duty enthusiast RAM, you would do just as well with cheaper ram sticks.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/GIGAB...770T-UD3P-MOBO - 67.48
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Antec...tts-Bronze-PSU - 66.46
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/AMD-A...MHz-65W-Retail - 50.23
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/2GB-%...d-CAS-9-9-9-24 - 51.06
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/500Gb...-Cache-8ms-OEM - 37.36

Total - inc. vat - 272.59

[Edward lV]

Thanks Roman_man, ill look at that tommorow. And hypo its for some casualish gaming. So long as it can run MTW2 im happy.

[rsslcs]

My rig for around £330:

CPU: E5200 2.5ghz
RAM: 4gb Kingston hyperx ram underclocked to 667 mhz because of:
ASUS P5SD2-VM motherboard.. Needs replacing, can't overclock.
GPU: Asus 9800GT 1gb
HD: WD Caviar 1tb, was bought after.
No case, I used my old one with extra fans.
Kept my old DVD drives.
PSU: Ezcool700W (I took a gamble here, it seems to have payed off.)

[Black Bullet]

Wow the motherboard and RAM are really good. The CPU bothers me. It only has 1M Cache, that's not good, my ordinary Intel Core 2 Duo has 6M.

[Roman_Man#3]

2mb of L2 cache is perfectly fine for the price bracket of the e5200.

[Black Bullet]

But it says 512kb x 2.

[Roman_Man#3]

Are you talking about the athlon 250 or the e5200?

[Black Bullet]

Sorry I didn't specify, the athlon.

[Capt. Fozdike]

AMD CPUs generally have really low cache which is what makes Intel better mostly

[Black Bullet]

Ah I see, I'm not too experienced in AMD.