Very Quick opinion needed, thanks

blasted · 17 Jul 2010 at 12:42

Hello All, Im about to go over to OC and get a new rig, could you please have a quick scan over the spec and comment if necessary. Its about on my max budget, I already have windows 7 and a dvd writer plus monitor and all that.

I was looking at using the two drives in raid for a quicker read write time, can I add extra drives later on but not in raid?

I also like the idea of getting COD as i dont yet have it and from what i have heard it sounds like a good game, i play a lot of CS:Source on line.

I wont be doing any overclocking.

Thanks

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stulid · 17 Jul 2010 at 12:46

pick a different harddrive- http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-206-SE&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940

the 500gb F3 have had problems with the 8** series chipset, there is a firmware fix available, if you want to do this yourself.

and you picked that motherboard because you want to do crossfire in the future? if so, good pick.

blasted · 17 Jul 2010 at 12:48

Nice one dude, I dont want to have to mess with or bodge anything.

Just to add sound wil be outputted by optical to an external DAC.

TBH never thought of crossfire, but it might be something for the future I suppose.

f12f12 · 17 Jul 2010 at 12:49

the cooler should already have TIM, and why would you get a black cpu not to over clock? you could get a asus board with the oc button that does it auto, even then you wouldn't need a black cpu.

blasted · 17 Jul 2010 at 12:54

Could you suggest a board and cpu combo with this one click button?

Whats TIM?

Thanks

stulid · 17 Jul 2010 at 12:57

leave it as it is.

Its easy to overclock a black edition with its unlocked multiplier

TIM is the thermal compound, yes some does come pre-applied to the cooler, but if you ever want to take it off/re-attach, then you would need some to re-apply, so get a tube

f12f12 · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:00

blasted said:
Could you suggest a board and cpu combo with this one click button?

Whats TIM?

Thanks

well you could save about £20 by going with a non black phenom. and a further £40 if you go for a athlon. but you should read reviews on the cpus first and see what suites you better.

a motherboard with the turbo button like i suggest, well have a look on the asus site, here's an example: http://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=fLIjRELzxMxkH2UQ&templete=2

TIM = thermal compound/paste.

stulid · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:04

f12f12 said:
well you could save about £20 by going with a non black phenom.

and which magical cpu would this be, that has the same feature set, and levels of cache memory on the die?

the only phenoms less than a 955 are dual cores.

and that Asus board is more expensive for the same feature set, and it only managed an extra 28mhz better overclocking than the gigabyte,

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/amd-890gx_12.html#sect0

blasted · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:09

Wouldn't I lose the savings though with the extra cost of the motherboard?

Thanks

f12f12 · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:09

stulid said:
and which magical cpu would this be, that has the same feature set, and levels of cache memory on the die?

the only phenoms less than a 955 are dual cores.

oh, yes it appears ocuk do not sell non black cpu's. ok so you could save£30 with a athlon but it will have a small performance loss at clock for clock. and the phenom probably will clock higher.

just saying ways to save pennies of your not over clocking or confident in it.

stulid · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:14

blasted said:
Wouldn't I lose the savings though with the extra cost of the motherboard?

Thanks

leave it how it is, apart from a small potential harddrive issue, your spec was spot on.

f12f12 · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:16

stulid said:
and that Asus board is more expensive for the same feature set, and it only managed an extra 28mhz better overclocking than the gigabyte,

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/amd-890gx_12.html#sect0

that's using bios over clocking, some thing which this customer did not want to do.

the asus has one switch over clocking which as the title suggests over clocks with a flick of a switch. the customer has expressed an interest in this.

stulid · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:18

f12f12 said:
the customer has expressed an interest in this.

blasted said:
I wont be doing any overclocking.

?

f12f12 · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:20

blasted said:
Could you suggest a board and cpu combo with this one click button?

Thanks

stulid · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:27

almost all amd chipset boards support the AMD overdrive program which is another simple way of getting extra speed from the cpu

blasted · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:29

Thanks for the input chaps, under the circumstance i think i may just go the first way with the slight change to hard drives. If i had more time i would be looking around and reading more, but circumstance dicate otherwise.

Play nice.

blasted

f12f12 · 17 Jul 2010 at 13:33

good choice those gigabyte boards are very stable :cool:

hope the hard drive works out ok.