TheBlademaster01

I'm building a rig for a friend of mine. His budget is 650 euro. I was thinking about this:

CPU: AMD Phenom II X3 720 'BE' E 115,-
MOBO: GigaByte GA-MA785GT-UD3H E 89,-
RAM: Patriot 4 GB DDR3-1600 Kit E 75,-
GPU: GigaByte HD4890 OC (GV-R489OC-1GD) E 179,-
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 500GB E 45,-
PSU: OCZ Fatal1ty 550W E 62,-
Case: Coolermaster Elite 335 E 39,-
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper TX3 E 15,-
Samsung DVD drive E 19,90
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E 639,90 TOTAL

Tell me what you guys think of it?

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HyoiGattai

Thats a very good rig, with luck he might be able to unlock the 4th core

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Crooksy

looks good to me, pretty good for the budget.

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TheBlademaster01

Thanks guys, I just hope his rig won't stomp my rig in gaming. The only problem that's bothering me, is the 550W OCZ PSU with 36A on the 12V-rail . I don't know if that will suffice for an HD4890 OC and a PhII.

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mdogg

I like it, only thing is I say go with a Caviar Black rather than a Caviar Blue if your budget will allow it. You get marginally better performance, but more importantly a 5 year warranty. Usually its only a few bucks more.

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Atomagenesis

Well, you can hope all you want buddy, heh, but a 4890 OC'd will own your 9800 GTX.
Nice build though.

TheBlademaster01

Yeah, well I have two of them, and the CPU also matters (4GHz Yorkfield vs 2.8GHz Heka) . Thanks for your reaction. But will the PSU be sufficient?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that he will be gaming on a 17 inch monitor (1280x1024). Huge overkill I know, but he won't upgrade his PC for a while .

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sccr64472

If it helps at all, my 520W Corsair powered my overclocked Wolfdale, GTX280, X-Fi, 3 Raptors, and 4 case fans with ease

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Comp #2: Corsair 520HX,4870 1gb,XFX 650I, E6750, 2 gb OCZ, Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic,Logitech 560 4.1, 24" Gateway LCD, Antec P180,3 striped 36gb Raptors + 1 500gb, Big Typhoon.

Comp #3: Aspire 600W, ASUS P5K, E6850, 2 gb OCZ, Creative Labs 5.1 speakers, 22" Gateway LCD, Chenming Mid Tower, Liteon DVDRW,Asus 4890, 500 gb Maxtor,Zalman 9700, Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer,74 gb Raptor.

Comp #4: 22" Acer LCD,Raptor 150, Big Typhoon, Gigabyte DS3, 2gb G. Skill,Intel E6750, Antec P180, Antec TruePower 550w,Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic,Liteon DVDRW, 8800GTS 512

The Master Chief

I hate Europe lol...


I always double take when I see 643.343, its weird.



Build looks solid those 785g boards are sweet.

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Interpolation

Just to add to this: a overclocked i7 920 @4.0Ghz with a 4870x2 only draws 550watts from the wall when under full GPU/CPU load.

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