what do you think of this Komplett PC

vigos

I'm looking to build a pc around the 500/600 euro mark and saw this one on Komplett. This will be my first build so I could with any help/ideas you may have? I will be mainly using it for surfing the web, some light video editing, dvd buring and maybe some games.

From reading this forum however I do have some concerns, like what do people make of the case and more importantly the power supply? Will it be ok for this setup? Dont plan on doing any overclocking ( yet! ).

I was also thinking of changing the hard disk to a Samsung SATA 200Gb disk instead.

I'm not expecting a high performance machine at this price but it seems a pretty good deal. But any other ideas on things to change would be appreciated

Rollo Tamasi

The case is grand, the hard drive is good, i wouldn't bother upgrading to another drive. The only concern i would have is with the 350w power supply, it might come up short and cause frezzes(i have a amd64 running on a 450w p/s).

Is the mobo on board graphics?

Of course your going to have to get a monitor and keyboard which could bring your price closer to the E750 mark.

christophicus

does that mobo support crossfire?

daywalker

christophicus wrote:

does that mobo support crossfire?

nope it only has one pcix16 slot

vigos

I have a monitor and keyboard already so thats taken care of. What exactly is crossfire?

andy1249

For everything else in your specification this PC is OK but will probably choke on most games , the graphics are on board and will not be able for any of the current crop of game releases except in the most basic of game settings.

daywalker

vigos wrote:

I have a monitor and keyboard already so thats taken care of. What exactly is crossfire?

its ATI's version of Nvidia's SLI, i.e. running 2 graphics cards side by side to get more graphic processing power

http://www.ati.com/technology/crossfire/index.html

http://www.nvidia.com/page/sli.html

vigos

andy1249 wrote:

For everything else in your specification this PC is OK but will probably choke on most games , the graphics are on board and will not be able for any of the current crop of game releases except in the most basic of game settings.

Yeah I figured that, I guess I can always add a decent graphics card later as I'm not much of a gamer really.

christophicus

I havent seen much about crossfire,but it is supposed to be more effective then Sli

Ri_Nollaig

from what ive heard it can get 100% from both cards while SLI only gets around 40%... still its not out yet and sli will probably get improved over time