What do you guys think of this spec?

closeratio said:
Good stuff :) It's amazin how much you can save by gettin a cheaper cpu and clockin it. It's a shame more people don't know about this cos it'd save them a bomb. Thanks for your help anyway pastymuncher. If I don't have any more questions I'll post again on this thread how it all went when I've built it (I guess it'll be a while though), just in case anyone else was thinkin of building the same kind of system.

Thanks for all your help guys
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Not a problem. It's what these forums are for. Enjoy your build. You should have great fun clocking that. :)
 
Ok just one more question (hopefully), i've decided to put slightly more cash into it and have been looking at the Antec 900 (because i've heard lots of good things about that) and an OCZ 600W StealthXStream PSU. Do you guys think these two would go well together, as well as with the rest of my build?
 
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closeratio said:
Ok just one more question (hopefully), i've decided to put slightly more cash into it and have been looking at the Antec 900 (because i've heard lots of good things about that) and an OCZ 600W StealthXStream PSU. Do you guys think these two would go well together, as well as with the rest of my build?
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yeah they'll be fine, although the corsair psu is quieter, and unless you want to overclock then the antec 900 is pretty noisy really.
 
yantorsen said:
yeah they'll be fine, although the corsair psu is quieter, and unless you want to overclock then the antec 900 is pretty noisy really.
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I know what you mean, but i'm not too bothered about psu noise as long as it's reliable. And even though I am going to be clocking my cpu, what case would you reccomend in that kind of price range? Ideally I want somethin with half decent cooling and not too silver (none at all ideally), just a personal preference
 
closeratio said:
I know what you mean, but i'm not too bothered about psu noise as long as it's reliable. And even though I am going to be clocking my cpu, what case would you reccomend in that kind of price range? Ideally I want somethin with half decent cooling and not too silver (none at all ideally), just a personal preference
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lian li pc-7's are rated. look a bit carp imo though.

i don't care about cases personally because it just goes under my desk.
 
yantorsen said:
i don't care about cases personally because it just goes under my desk.
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Haha fair enough, I'd think the same but mine's on top of my desk right next to me screen, I would put it under but I tend to mess around with it sometimes so I've never really had it under the desk.

I've been looking at a few of those lian li's as well and even though they've apparently got a great build quality, they just seem too square and normal to me. Thanks for your help though Yantorsen, and I will take into consideration what you said when I'm buying this stuff.
 
hey I never saw that, might be slightly more expensive but it does look pretty damn good. I might as well go and find a review of it :) thanks for that mate

EDIT: in fact i've seen they also do a non-aluminium version of this (steel i'm assuming, so it's probably heavier) for pretty much the same price as the 900, do you think the steel version would be just as good (apart form the weight difference) as the aluminium one?
 
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closeratio said:
hey I never saw that, might be slightly more expensive but it does look pretty damn good. I might as well go and find a review of it :) thanks for that mate

EDIT: in fact i've seen they also do a non-aluminium version of this (steel i'm assuming, so it's probably heavier) for pretty much the same price as the 900, do you think the steel version would be just as good (apart form the weight difference) as the aluminium one?
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well it wont be as good as an aluminum one.

not sure how much difference it makes in that particular case tbh.
 
If i was going to spend that sort of money on a case i would get the Antec P182 that is on this week only. That is a quality case at a decentish price. There are plenty of reviews for them as well.
 
Ok I know this is pretty off topic to what I originally posted, but I couldn't find any solid information on it anywhere.

So basically I was just browsing the net about reinstalling xp (which I've done with an IDE drive, but not a SATA drive), and I found out that windows doesn't recognise a SATA drive if you're doing a fresh install on a SATA disk, and it apparently asks for the floppy with the SATA drivers on it. Now ideally I don't want to have to use a floppy drive as I know this will probably be the only time ever that I'll use it if I did.

So basically would it be possible, when windows setup asks for them, to take out the windows installation disk and use the cd that came with my motherboard to install the drivers for the SATA drives? (and then obviously re-insert the windows cd after it's done)

If there's a thread on this forum already that describes how to do this then I'd be grateful if somebody could just post a reply with it in.

Cheers guys
 
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yantorsen said:
you sure it wasn't RAID drivers?
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No that's what I thought but it doesn't matter now. I think on some of the older motherboards that supported SATA, you had to install the SATA drivers because they weren't natively supported on the mobo (apparently). But I don' thtink that's the case witrh newer ones. Especially the DS3.
 
closeratio said:
No that's what I thought but it doesn't matter now. I think on some of the older motherboards that supported SATA, you had to install the SATA drivers because they weren't natively supported on the mobo (apparently). But I don' thtink that's the case witrh newer ones. Especially the DS3.
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well i didn't with my DS3, so I wouldn't worry about it.
 
yantorsen said:
have you actually ordered it yet?
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haha no, but i'm probably going to about half way through november. I'll probably post any questions on here that I have if I have trouble with anything (although hopefully I won't have to :))

And right, thanks for that g00dsh0t. Thing is the xp version I've got is SP1 :( I've found some info on a website that describes how to integrate the sata drivers into the xp installation by creating a new installation cd with the original xp installation files on it along with the sata drivers. You use a program to do it apparently (?)

EDIT: I used a program called nLite and by copying the xp SP1 installation files and downloading the SP2 upgrade program onto my Hard drive, it 'slipstreamed' the service pack into the original xp installation and burnt an image onto a cd which was effectively the windows XP SP2 installation cd. SHouldn't have any problems now :):)
 
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closeratio said:
haha no, but i'm probably going to about half way through november. I'll probably post any questions on here that I have if I have trouble with anything (although hopefully I won't have to :))

And right, thanks for that g00dsh0t. Thing is the xp version I've got is SP1 :( I've found some info on a website that describes how to integrate the sata drivers into the xp installation by creating a new installation cd with the original xp installation files on it along with the sata drivers. You use a program to do it apparently (?)

EDIT: I used a program called nLite and by copying the xp SP1 installation files and downloading the SP2 upgrade program onto my Hard drive, it 'slipstreamed' the service pack into the original xp installation and burnt an image onto a cd which was effectively the windows XP SP2 installation cd. SHouldn't have any problems now :):)
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if you have a legit copy of windows xp, you can order from ms a sp2 cd, then you can use nlite to join it with ** exsisting copy.

if it's not legit, the there's plenty of places you can download sp2 from anyway.
 
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