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Thread ID: 106632 2010-01-16 10:40:00 Advice needed for new build forrest44 (754) PC World Chat
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849280 2010-01-16 10:40:00 Thinking of building a new budget PC

Ideally I'm looking for something that overall is quiet and low-power.

Any improvements you could make on this?

PSU: corsair VX450 $129
Motherboard: MSI 760GM-E51 socket AM3 $132
CPU: Athlon II X2 245 2.9GHz (plan on undervolting) ~$104
RAM: 4x 1gb DDR3-1066 (already have this)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB $148

Case + optical drive: already have
forrest44 (754)
849281 2010-01-16 11:24:00 What do you plan to use it for?

What is your budget?
Battleneter2 (9361)
849282 2010-01-16 12:27:00 Will probably be running virtualisation software, + basic internet/email stuff.

Just looking for something decent but fairly cheap without sacrificing upgradability/quality

Maybe $600 or so max?
forrest44 (754)
849283 2010-01-16 18:37:00 Any improvements you could make on this?


Motherboard: MSI 760GM-E51 socket AM3 $132


Change that to ASUS or Gigabyte.
pctek (84)
849284 2010-01-17 01:07:00 I'd personally change the Seagate to a Samsung F3 1TB or Western Digital 1TB (not the green drive version though). trinsic (6945)
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