Views on this beastly mother

daven1986 said:
why change the psu to a modular one. they aren't that much easier to work with tbh. i have the 650W you initially chose and my cable management is far better than when I had a modular psu. don't see why you should pay more for a less powerful psu, when the cheaper more powerful one is easy to work with.

and i'd get the 4870.
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I agree I didn't get a modular one because I use a lot of drives.
At the moment I only got the extra PCI Express connector that I don't use the rest of them I use.

I saved myself a score and used that money somewhere else.
:)

I got the 605 W Cosair TX. I would reccomend it.
 
Without a modular PSU you could still get your system looking something like this:

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:)
 
I thought my non-modular cable tidy was pretty good:

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However I still prefer my modular PSU. Corsair also sent me FREE sata cables, I got an extra 2 cables with 3 connectors on each.
 
Kerplunk said:
Can anyone poke holes and give their views on this spec please. Budget about £1000

Gainward GeForce GTX 280 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £259.99
(£305.49) £259.99
(£305.49)
Antec Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case £99.99
(£117.49) £99.99
(£117.49)
Asus DRW-20B1ST 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Rewriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Corsair HX 1000W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-1000HXUK) £129.99
(£152.74) £129.99
(£152.74)
Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 AMD 790FX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £109.99
(£129.24) £109.99
(£129.24)
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Black Dragon EVO ONE DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GE24GB1066C5DC) £79.99
(£93.99) £79.99
(£93.99)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000340AS) £68.99
(£81.06) £68.99
(£81.06)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ 3.00GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail £55.99
(£65.79) £55.99
(£65.79)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) £62.99
(£74.01) £62.99
(£74.01)
Sub Total : £882.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £156.25
Total : £1,049.11
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520w modular corsair will be fine for that
 
fobose said:
I thought my non-modular cable tidy was pretty good:

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However I still prefer my modular PSU. Corsair also sent me FREE sata cables, I got an extra 2 cables with 3 connectors on each.
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Good job :)


See in your case you don't seem to have a lot of hard drives so a modular would be warranted.

But if a person uses 6/7 drives plus 2 dvd rw drives it would be different. But so many men so many different opinions :)
 
psd99 said:
See in your case you don't seem to have a lot of hard drives so a modular would be warranted.
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Even if I had 4 in there, I think I could hide the cables pretty well!

This is my main rig, with 5 hard drives. Unfortunatly my motherboard only has 6 SATA connectors, 1 of which is blocked by the graphics card, thus using a PCI-E sata controller:

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Another example for you.

I would go the Q6600 route, Not only will you not lose much speed, but you can save cash on memory as well (GeIL BD PC6400 kit). A high clocked dual core is only going to be faster at lower resolutions.

Go for the Samsung 1TB drives, they are great.

Finally, you only really need a 4850 to run at those resolutions.
 
I finally got around to ordering this spec:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 LGA775 'Wolfdale' "Overclocking E0 Stepping" 3.33GHz (1333FSB) - Retail

Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Black Dragon EVO ONE DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GE24GB1066C5DC)

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ)

Asus DRW-20B1ST 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Rewriter (Black) - OEM

Antec Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)

Zalman CNPS9700-NT nVidia Tritium CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)

Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Samsung SM-2253BW Aqua 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black


All I can say is amazing! :D Completed the build last night and now just working through setting it all up.

I tried, and think I got it looking all nice and tidy, I am dead chuffed with it :)

Couple of questions, Whats Crossfire? it was like an add on for my graphics card

Why cant I get the DVI to DVI to work from monitior ro PC? works from VGA (monitor) to DVI adapter :confused:
 
Nice build dude, congrats :)
Crossfire is ATI/AMD's versio nof dual graphic card setup, nvidia has SLI.
The little bridge connector you get allows you to have have 2 cards (not necessarily idenitcal iirc) to run in tandem to increase gpu performance etc.
With your 4870x2 you certainly don't need to worry about crossfire.

As regards your DVI to DVI, check the cable and the connectors. If they're ok it should just work without need to prat around with it tbh.
 
check if the monitor has an 'input' button..

turn the pc off, connect up just the DVI cable, turn monitor on, turn pc on..

might just 'work' like that, if not ask someone who has your monitor :)
 
I noticed I had the RAM in Single Channel mode, so changed it to Dual Channel Mode - Whats the difference? I didnt really notice it slower in single or faster in Dual lol
 
When you say it doesn't work, do you mean that the cable fits but no signal is received, or that the cable just doesn't fit?

If the former, it's likely a faulty cable or, more annoying possibility, dud DVI socket on the monitor.

If the latter, then it's as RussD said. It's one of the most frustrating things in computer-dom: graphics cards almost invariably come with DVI-I sockets, monitors almost invariably come with DVI-D sockets. A DVI-I cable will not fit in a DVI-D socket, so you MUST use a DVI-D to DVI-D cable.
 
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