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Post subject: advice on new pc...  Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:35 am |
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| Forever Alone |
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Right, just started college, getting student loan soon....time for a pc. Im trying to be reasonable soo ive set my ceiling at £500 for the tower and all internals. Ive made my own wee list of everything needed, what im after is for someone to let me know that A - everything will actually work... and B - is everything on the list neccesary...if you can find me better alternatives or save me money i would be grateful. all im after is CSS, trackmania... generally older games on full settings...if it does that reasonably well, im happy. Ive selected that motherboard for the crossfire thing....thinking ill buy another one of the gfx cards in the next couple months... if theres a cheaper crossfire mobo that will do the job, that would be nice. Not budging on the case.... soo here's my attempt - CASE - Antec Nine Hundred 900 - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/118268 - £67.78 MOBO - DFI LANPARTY DK 790FX-M2RS - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/147767 - £89.99 PSU - Coolermaster RealPower 700W - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134694 - £82.58 PROC - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3GHz) - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128510 - £64.95 GFX - Sapphire HD 3650 512MB DDR2 - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/140617 - £35.23 HDD - Samsung HD753LJ 750GB - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139739 - £58.74 DVD - Samsung SH-D162 16x48x DVD-ROM - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/93815 - £12.87 DVDR - Optiarc AD-5200A-0B 20X DVD±RW - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/138750 - £14.36 RAM - Corsair 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130429 - £58.45 The total at the moment is sitting at £480... soo aye, any help would be grately appreciated guys 
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:05 am |
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well for starters u would only need 1 DVD/CD drive.... and only 2gb of ram to play those types of games... and unless ur planning on running vista... xp doesnt see more t han 3.5 or something like that... (i only have 2gb and its fine... loads fast etc...)
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:53 am |
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yer and that PSU does look overkill tbh... 650watt would be fine unless ur planning SLI on power hungry cards
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:54 pm |
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:20 pm |
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You'll be needing a heatsink though 
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 5:53 pm |
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GeneralPublic=GCHQ= wrote: You'll be needing a heatsink though lol...completely forgot about that likes. will this one do? >> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126790and no doubt ill need the thermal paste stuff?? theres a few different kinds here but which one should i get???
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:11 pm |
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Lur =GCHQ= wrote: GeneralPublic=GCHQ= wrote: You'll be needing a heatsink though lol...completely forgot about that likes. will this one do? >> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126790and no doubt ill need the thermal paste stuff?? theres a few different kinds here but which one should i get??? You should try and get a nice brand for the heatsink, I'd suggest Coolermaster Also for the paste, http://www.ebuyer.com/product/126410_________________  [SNIGG] Sniggerdly | Ask me about how awesome I am at EvE |
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:08 pm |
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Should be fine but don't expect to run any game at decent graphics _________________ 
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:20 pm |
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| Legal Pidgeon |
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yer spend at least about £50-60 on a card.
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:39 pm |
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:29 pm |
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id spend a little more and get this,you dont need a heatsink if your not gonna oc DFI Infinity BloodIron P35-T2RL - £64 2 gig crucial ballistix - £36.01 ati hd 4850 - £110 q6600 go stepping - £121 antec 900 - £67 corsair 620hx psu - £82.67 dvd burner - £15 hdd - £58 total - £553 all from ebuyer
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:33 pm |
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 7:56 pm |
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flatline=GCHQ= wrote: id spend a little more and get this,you dont need a heatsink if your not gonna oc DFI Infinity BloodIron P35-T2RL - £64 2 gig crucial ballistix - £36.01 ati hd 4850 - £110 q6600 go stepping - £121 antec 900 - £67 corsair 620hx psu - £82.67 dvd burner - £15 hdd - £58 total - £553 all from ebuyer what about all the things on my list but with that gfx card and RAM you suggested?? (and i probably will OC slightly.)
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:09 pm |
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i wouldnt buy amd,not being an intel fanboy but they pwn amd atm.and a quad core for 12o quid...cant go wrong
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Post subject: Re: advice on new pc... Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:13 pm |
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mate, im not looking for a high spec pc...i won't be playing cod4 or crysis or anything like that...just CSS, halflife, portal, trackmania, DC...get the point??? no doubt the gfx card you said is overkill for what i want....
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