Packard Bell Imedia S3720 graphics card upgrade

[DaveLembke]

Depends on Brand, Features, and merchant selling its markup. I buy my hardware through www.newegg.com and a 500watt PSU for this build would be like this one listed for an example of a price tag that I'd pay:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139027&Tpk=corsair%20500%20watt%20builder%20series&IsVirtualParent=1

This PSU is offered with free shipping, $10 off at time of purchase + $20 off rebate so that in the end you end up with a high end power supply at the bargain of $40. Not sure if free shipping is only within the USA though, but this is an example of a brand and deal that I would take advantage of if I needed a 500 watt PSU.

I like the Corsair Brand, as well as the fact that its rated 4 of 5 eggs (stars) for 360 people leaving feedback responses. And getting this $70 PSU for $40 is a good deal

*Actually finding this deal, i almost want to buy one to keep on hand as a spare. I have 1 system running an old power supply that came out of a Pentium 4 DELL tower, and DELL is one of those hit or miss computer brands for quality amd performance. For example I have seen so many troubled DELL brand computers in my time generally due to component failures, but yet I have a DELL Inspiron 4000 laptop running a Pentium III CPU that wont die 

[Insanemuch]

Right, okay I did some research on their computers with psus included, but I didn't find much. I found these two cases, but they only included a 400w, so I was wondering if that was enough.
Links:
http://www.gigantedirect.com/aopen-m602.html
http://www.gigantedirect.com/aopen-m601.html

I found some singular power supplies, but I couldn't find many for cheap. Here are the psus I found

http://www.gigantedirect.com/antec-hcg-520.html
520w £62

http://www.gigantedirect.com/lc-power-lc420h-12-v1-3.html
420 £30

http://www.gigantedirect.com/ocz-corexstream-500w.html
500w £35

Which do you think I should go for?

[DaveLembke]

OCZ is a good company. They make good products. I'd go with this PSU http://www.gigantedirect.com/ocz-corexstream-500w.html

When it comes to cases, not much can go wrong with them as long as they have all features needed and the size for the installed guts to fit. I have heard of AOPEN before, but haven't bought any of their products to know of their quality as to if its good or junk. Not much can go wrong with a metal case and plastic, although I did order a Rosewill case on the cheap about 5 months ago and the feedback was full of complaints of the plastic face of the tower received with snapped off plastic stand offs that are use to lock the plastic face to the steel chasis. Since I got the case for like $14 on the cheap, I just used black electrical tape to affix the plastic face that was also black to the painted black steel chasis by bonding both parts at the seam all the way around the front face. Now its firmly attached until the gum on the electrical tape gets too gooey or dries up in 5 years or so. Then i just apply new electrical tape or toss the case away.

[Insanemuch]

OMG we're nearly done! Okay, so here are some final working outs:

Final computer parts needed:
PSU: http://www.gigantedirect.com/ocz-corexstream-500w.html
 £34.78

Graphics card: http://www.gigantedirect.com/components-76/graphics-cards/msi-ati-radeon-hd-6570-2gb.html
£54.28

Case: http://www.gigantedirect.com/components-76/chassis-components/computer-cases/cooler-master-k280.html
£32.67

Total price: £121.73

Can you just check for me that they are all compatible? Thanks so much man

[Insanemuch]

Oh yeah, I'm sure it does cause it looks like t does, but does this case (http://www.coolermaster.com/product/Detail/case/mid-tower/k280.html) come with slots for like those trays where you put your CDs, DVDs, games etc in, like a disk tray?

[DaveLembke]

Its a good match for that hardware you linked. Plenty of room. Space for up to 3 DVD Roms etc or 2 DVD roms and add a flash card reader into a 5.25" slot etc if needed later.

Attached is a side shot with cover open to show all the room and it displays that there will be no shortage for room for what you need it for. You also should have plenty of length in the power supply cables to snake them through the cut outs and pop them back out where the optical drive(s), and hard drive(s) are etc and have it really slick and organized inside with this case.

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