Advice needed on PC

[[N]Haja]

Heya,

I am putting a PC together for a friend, with a budget of R5500. He will use it mainly for work, but will eventually want to upgrade to play games. The following system is what I have put together within the budget, and left it open for upgrades (more ram and space for a graphics card).

However, I have never put together an Intel setup, so i was wondering if someone could loo at it and point out any obvious mistake I have made. He allready has speakers btw :)

Thanks in advance

- Intel® Boxed Core2™Duo E6300 Processor - 1.86GHz Dual Core, Socket 775, 2MB, 1066MHz FSB, 65nm, 64-Bit Ready, 3 Year
- GIGABYTE® "Lakeport GZ" i946GZ+ICH7 Express Chipset - Socket LGA775 @ FSB1066 - For Celeron™D / Pentium®4 / D & Core™2 Duo, 4x DDR2 667 (Dual), 4x SATAII + 1x ATA100 , 2x PCI, 1x PCI-E x1, 8x USB 2.0 (4 By Cable), Intel GMAX3000 Graphics Engine (Up to 128MB), 1x PCI Express x16 Slot, Realtek PCI Express GBE LAN, Intel 8ch HD Audio, Features All Solid Capacitor Design - Durability, MicroATX
- Gigabyte™ X1 Chassis - Black - Side Vented Panel - 4x 5.25" & 6x 3.5" Bays - Tool Free Design - 1x 120mm Fan - 400W PSU
- Transcend® JetRam™ High-Performance 1GB DDR2-667 240-Pin Module : CL5, 4-Layer PC Board, Life-Time Warranty
- LITEON® DVD Multi-Writer, 16x+R/-R, 8x +R/4x -R DL, 8x +RW, 6x -RW, 5x -RAM, 16x DVD, 48xCDR, 24x RW, White & Black
- Seagate® Barracuda™ 7200.9 Series - 160GB Serial ATA II (SATA2) Plus - Serial ATA 300 (3Gbps) With 2MB Cache @ 7200RPM - NCQ
- Standard 1.44MB Black FDD Drive
- Logitech® OEM Series - Deluxe Keyboard 250 Black Keyboard USB
- Logitech® OEM Series - RX300 Black Premium Optical Mouse USB
- SAMSUNG 17" SyncMaster, 0.23mm dp, MPR-II, PnP Full Res.1280X1024

[J1nX]

All that for R5500?

Fuck - nice price - all he needs is a decent gfx card, and he'll be able to play any game and prolly run UT07 in WTFMODE :)

[GM<Jaymac>MF]

Wow, that's a great price for all that!

A word of caution though, there is a remarkable difference between a 6300 and a 6400 which should be taken into account. However, given this good price you could probably stick with the 6300 becuase it's still a great chip.

However, although Gigabyte boards are great, the chipset on that board is not. I strongly, strongly recommendt you think seriously about getting this Biostart board instead: http://www.prophecy.co.za/biostar-tforce-965pt-socket-motherboard-p-2551.html

It is their first offering of a high end product so they are coming in at a GREAT price and I can tell you they run really well. Don't think that just becuase the price is low it's not a good board. Here is a review of the chipset and the Biostar board from Tom's Hardware. http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/11/13/shootout_at_the_core_2_corral/

[Klippies]

OK, I wouldn't buy the Core 2 Duo but a AMD Athlon64 3600+ X2. The Intel is better but you can save about R500-R600 bucks. Then I would buy Hynix RAM. You can again save About R300 bucks there. In total that is a save of about R900 only on CPU&RAM