New Media PC

[soze]

Hiya I'm building a PC for DVD + DivX playback as well as Internet and Office have got this so far any advice on if the AMD is any good.

OEM AMD X2 Dual Core AM2 Athlon 64 4200 2.2GHz 2x512 Socket AM2 !!!REQUIRES AM2 MOTHERBOARD!!! 1
£24.00 £24.00

Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2 - Socket AM2 - PCI-E (x16) - DDR2 800/667/533/400 - Micro ATX 1
£29.79 £29.79

Corsair XMS6400 2GB DDR2 (2x1GB) 800Mhz Non-ECC 1
£26.36 £26.36

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 3650 1GB GDDR2 TV-Out/Dual DVI/ PCI-Express - Retail 1
£24.00 £24.00

Antec NSK4000 black mini tower case without power supply unit 1
£25.52 £25.52

Antec Earthwatts 380W ATX12V version 2.2 with 80mm low noise cooling fan -80Plus certified 1
£25.54 £25.54

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, AM2, All Sempron, Athlon 64 to 5000+, to FX -59, Opteron 1
£14.50 £14.50


Total Basket Ex VAT: £169.71 ex vat
Delivery Charge: 5.79 ex vat
Basket + Delivery Ex VAT: £175.50 ex vat
VAT @ 17.5%: £30.71
Total Basket Value: £206.21 inc vat

 

[Kryten]

Looks good to me. For what you're using it for the AMD will certain suffice, and face it 60 quid for both the board and chip, it's hardly busting the bank, and it still gives you room to slap a much faster AM2 processor in it in future should you feel the need.
The graphics card - it's only 25 quid but is there a version with less ram? the 1gb on that is merely for marketing purposes rather than performance, but I won't imagine a lesser version will be much cheaper.
It'll work well - you got HDD's and optical drives lined up?

 

[soze]

Yeah i have a harddisk and 2 DVD drives ready i can get a retail ATHLON 64 X2 5400+ 2.8GHZ PIB SKT AM2 2X512KB FSB1000 65W for £43.73 Which is not much more than the Processor and Fan i looked at.

Can also get a RADEON X1650 PRO 512MB DDR2 PCI-E DUAL DVI-I TVO L-RETAIL for £25 is that a better option?

 

[Kryten]

Graphics card: no, stick with the original.
The uprated processor: yeah I saw that sort of price on Ebuyer but wasnt sure if you needed it for the extra 20 quid. You'll probably notice the difference if you intend to encode DVDs and the likes though.

 

[soze]

Cheers for the help