Is this a decent budget build? ($260)
Posted Jun 30, 2011, 4:26 AM UTC
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For what?
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General, non-gaming use.
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Wait for Llano
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A Llano chip is supposed to be quad core with a HD6550 onboard and around $135. And that's for a higher end model too. The lower end ones will be dirt cheap.
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That sounds awesome, when are they coming out?
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Q3 2011. If you can't wait, OEM X3 720 + some HD 6k series
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unsure, they have shipped to OEMs, 135 sounds cheap though, unless he means just the cpu. These cpus are intergrated onto the mobo, and the current price for the motherboard ranges 80-180$ for one depending on what features you need. So i would not expect a higher end cpu, to just drop below everything instantly.
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No. Its absolutely terrible. You are spending way more than you need for less power than you could get. You do not need a seperate video card or cpu. Replace your cpu, your video card, and your mother board with this. 50$ cheaper, significantly less power use (under 30 watts for the entire setup), while having more powerful graphics. Also has sata 6, the only real draw back is only 1 PCI express slot, and no pci slots, but to be honest i dont know why you need pci slots much anymore. Mine has a tv tuner card in it. This is my case, its really awesome, comes with a silent power supply with stable clean power.
When ever possible avoid re-certified drives. They seem to have a high failure rate. You can get a new drive for 40$ and get a 5 year warranty.
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So he should go from a triple core 3.1 GHz Athlon processor to a dual core E-350 at 1.6 GHz?The processor on that thing sucks. Also the graphics card that OP picked is in fact more powerful then the one you picked. Just because the model number is bigger does not mean it is better. The 3450 has a higher 3DMark scores vs the 6310 (scroll down).
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He has absolutely no need for the cpu he selected. Its just not required, this pc does everything I ask it to do, including play civilization 4 on max settings.
Also, according to this benchmark the 6310 performs significantly better.
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This would be a perfect setup for a home server. A couple people commented that they got the total power consumption to under 15 Watts. My Intel D510 setup uses about 47 Watts, so this could save me $30 per year.
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Nice!
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It's certainly cheap, but I'd spend maybe $70 more dollars to get the a cpu/mobo combo that works with Core Unlocker - enough to get a 4 core proc.
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Geforce 7025? What the fuck is this, 2007?
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not terrible.. you don't need that thermal compound, as the cpu will come with one preinstalled on the heat sink. If you decided that you want an after market one go with a name-brand like artic-silver. Also i would not recommend getting a re-certified drive, as drives are the most likely part of your system that would fail or go bad and a used drive only increases that chance. Spend another 10-15 bucks and get a new oem drive. Your also missing a cd drive, and or a wireless card.. Overall this is a pretty cheap/shity system i wouldn't expect much from it... but its fine for browsing reddit...
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Its a horrible build, i would pity anyone buying it. You can do much better for much cheaper.
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Suggestion? I agree, but I am curious regarding the different suggestions...
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First: You don't need that thermal compound, don't waste your money. There is already thermal compound on the stock cooler that will do the job well.
Second: I bought a Linkworld case the first time I ever built a computer. The case is built moderately well.
You absolutely should never let that power supply see components worth more than $10. Here is a "review" of their power supplies link
I would buy the cheapest case you can find. This looks fine and has okay reviews: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811154095
This should be a competent power supply for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171046
If this wasn't clear already...if you put those components on the power supply in the Linkworld case, you are not going to have a computer, you are going to have a bunch of blue smoke and dead components.
This! IMPORTANT - don't use a crappy PSU. Never, ever.