AMD Phenom II x4 Quad Core ~£850 budget, please check

[abrdar]

i currently hav a dell studio xps laptop, which i got about and a half years ago, its been getting a bit slow so ive decided im going to buy a desktop pc, my friend recommended me PCS so i put in my spec. If you guys could just briefly check it, it would be much appreciated. Basicallly, i will be converting to pc gaming, but even so will not be gaming in excess. But i do want a future-proof performance desktop that will last me for a long time. I'm also not sure about whether I should stick with the standard amd cpu cooler, or upgrade to the fenrir evo extreme.

Here is the current spec:

Case
InWIN MANA-136 BLACK GAMING CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD PHENOM II X4 QUAD CORE 980 (3.70GHz/8MB CACHE/AM3)
Motherboard
ASUS® M5A99X EVO:USB 3.0, SATA 6.0Gb/s, Quad CrossFireX™/SLI™
Memory (RAM)
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (4 x 4GB KIT)
Graphics Card
2GB AMD RADEON™ HD6970 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
600GB VELOCIRAPTOR WD6000HLHX, SATA 6-Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (10,000rpm)
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 650W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX650 V2-80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72)
Processor Cooling
STANDARD AMD CPU COOLER
Sound Card
ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Facilities
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT - AS STANDARD ON ALL PCs
USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) (£5)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 8 to 10 working days
Quantity
1

Price: £1,057.00 including VAT and deliver

**********PLEASE NOTE I WILL BE GETTING A VAT REFUND, SO TOTAL PRICE EXCLUDING VAT IS £880.83*******************


Thank you very much!

 

[Corfate]

Looks good to me, but the RAM seems a little overkill. 8GB is plenty these days, you could get away with 4GB easily if you needed to save money somewhere. Also, i'd recommend a 2TB Caviar Black HDD as your first HDD, fast boot times and loading (Not had any experience with those 10,000 rpm HDD's). If you wanted to keep the VELOCIRAPTOR as your first HDD for it's fast boot times as it's faster than the Caviar Black, possibly think into getting a 1/2TB Caviar green 2nd HDD for storage They power down when not in use, so save power.

 

[abrdar]

thanks

thanks, i will definitely lower it down the 8gb model. But honestly i dont think I will use more than 600gb of space, because i currently have a 500gb HDD and i've only used about 400gb of it, and if worst comes to worst i can always install another hard drive manually. I also quite like the idea of fast loading times, but dont want to go down the SSD route though at the moment.

 

[Corfate]

Fair enough your 10,000 600GB 1st HDD should be perfectly fine for you then

Have a happy new year

 

[Wozza63]

would recommend getting the bulldozer quad core, i think it should be cheaper

also get the triple copper cooler or the titan for good cpu cooling