budet build question.

MJSWARLORD

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From the spec below this post you will see that I have a pcs games rig. I also have an old Packard bell windows 7 pc that struggles to run windows 10 free download. There is no point in throwing £££ at this spare pc so I intend to buy the build posted here. What do you think.

Case
GAME MAX FALCON BLACK GAMING CASE (RGB LED)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core G4400 (3.30GHz, 3MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® H110M-R: Micro-ATX, DDR4, LGA1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs
Memory (RAM)
8GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 4GB)
Graphics Card
INTEGRATED GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR (GPU)
1st Hard Disk
120GB KINGSTON UV400 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (550MB/R, 350MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
INTEL STANDARD CPU COOLER
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Office Software
NO OFFICE SOFTWARE
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security 2017 - 3 User, 1 Year
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)

The pc will not be used as a games rig , it will be used as a guinea pig pc to test things on before I risk putting them on my main games rig. I have always done this and in the past it has save a lot of heart ache when something has gone wrong. I have chosen the cheapest ssd that pcs have purely because a cheap one will be faster than a hdd.
 

SpyderTracks

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Couple of points I'd mention:

1/. SSD, be careful as some of the "budget" ssd's are actually not much cheaper than the better ones. It may be worth checking if you can squeeze an NVME M2 drive in there which would be a significant leap in performance for not very much more cash. The SSD you have is a 2.5" SATA and slow even for them. That would mean upping to 256Gb as there aren't any 128Gb M2 drives worth it, if you did you could consider the Samsung PM961 series for about £40 extra and the gains would be night and day.

2/. Cooler, not much more cost, but I'd always suggest upgrading to the Dragonfly as the Stock coolers are extremely noisy, to the point where it's actually annoying.

Other than that, looks good. How much did that build above come to by the way?
 

MJSWARLORD

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cost of the rig below was just under £2,900 last year that included the monitor not show below , plus a corsair strafe keyboard and mouse purchased else where.

will look at your ideas later on thanks.
 

MJSWARLORD

Silver Level Poster
sorry for misunderstanding , the proposed build is about £ 470

I take your point about a better ssd and maybe nvme m2 but as I say the rig will only be a guinea pig /spare so I cant really justify what the suggestions will cost so I have amended the build , I don't really need ssd but added your butterfly idea.

Case
GAME MAX FALCON BLACK GAMING CASE (RGB LED)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core G4400 (3.30GHz, 3MB Cache) + HD Graphics
Motherboard
ASUS® H110M-R: Micro-ATX, DDR4, LGA1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs

Memory (RAM)
8GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2133MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
INTEGRATED GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR (GPU)
1st Hard Disk
1TB SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 32MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Power Supply
CORSAIR 350W VS SERIES™ VS-350 POWER SUPPLY
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Operating System
Genuine Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc DVD & Single Licence
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft® Office® 365
Anti-Virus
BullGuard™ Internet Security 2017 - 3 User, 1 Year
 
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