Which Power Supply?

stulid · 10 Feb 2011 at 20:59

CBrooksC said:
If their exactly the same shall I get the 29.99 one?

yes.

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 20:59

stulid said:
yes they are.

Ok. Can you help me pick some other stuff then thats cheaper and just as good? I wanna get this PC built for as little cost as possible. as I dont have a lot of money LOL

stulid · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:03

CBrooksC said:
Ok. Can you help me pick some other stuff then thats cheaper and just as good? I wanna get this PC built for as little cost as possible. as I dont have a lot of money LOL

this is it. stick it all in your case.

shadow_boxer · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:03

CBrooksC said:
Ok. Can you help me pick some other stuff then thats cheaper and just as good? I wanna get this PC built for as little cost as possible. as I dont have a lot of money LOL

Only areas where you could really drop are perhaps getting a AMD Athlon II Tri-Core and getting a cheaper cooler. Other than that I would be inclined to leave it as is if possible.

The MSI 5850 is cracking value and certainly right on the money for value. Get the £25.99 OCZ BlackOps RAM too as above.

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:05

stulid said:
this is it. stick it all in your case.

Awesome

I'll probs buy everything this weekend except graphics card and get that when I have a little more money. Does the Motherboard have onboard graphics? Like enough to run windows 7 for a week or two while I get more money? Unless I sell notebook. then I can get straight away LOL.

stulid · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:06

yes its got onboard graphics.

a lot of those parts are on special offer until Wednesday morning.

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:08

shadow_boxer said:
Only areas where you could really drop are perhaps getting a AMD Athlon II Tri-Core and getting a cheaper cooler. Other than that I would be inclined to leave it as is if possible.

The MSI 5850 is cracking value and certainly right on the money for value. Get the £25.99 OCZ BlackOps RAM too as above.

I was told that a quad core is the best thing to get for what I plan to use for. and that the cooler will also sute it perfectly

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:11

stulid said:
yes its got onboard graphics.

a lot of those parts are on special offer until Wednesday morning.

Awesome. I doubt I'd be able to buy Graphics card before then LOL unless I sell notebook which I seem very doubtful on LOL

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:16

Random question. When I put graphics card in. Do I have to install it? I was just reading up about it. If so then is it easy to do?

RJC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:18

Install the gpu, connect the power, all connectors ned to be used. Startup the PC and once windows is loaded install the drivers.

If your using the onboard first then uninstall the drivers before shutting down.

stulid · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:18

well you will be putting ati graphic drivers on for the onboard gpu, so no.

just download the newest drivers from ati.

use em for the onboard and the card.

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:20

RJC said:
Install the gpu, startup the PC and once windows is loaded install the drivers.

If your using the onboard first then uninstall the drivers before shutting down.

Ok I'll be using the onboard for a week or two i should think. So then I go into drivers and uninstall the onboard one. (Wont that crash the PC?) Shut down, put Graphics card into slot and then start PC up? then once PC boots stick instalation CD in? and away we go?

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:21

I'm confused now LOL. How do I install the card after using the onboard for a few weeks? LOL

shadow_boxer · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:21

You should be able to just install the card, connect the power to it, boot into windows and install from the internet, the drivers on the CD will be out of date and away you go. You may need to go into the BIOS to disable the onboard gpu.

RJC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:22

Pretty much, the pc will not crash, you will probably have to suffer a strange screen res for a while.

I would download the latest drives from the ATI / AMD website.

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:25

Ok do you have a link to that? Sorry I told you I was a noob LOL.. I'm good at installing the stuff like hardware LOL. But when it comes to intalling drivers and acronims I'm not so good LOL

stulid · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:25

do it as I said, use the newest drivers for the onboard and just plug the card in.

stulid · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:26

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

RJC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:27

32bit drivers: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-32.aspx

64bit drivers: http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

These are for windows 7 5850 GPU.

CBrooksC · 10 Feb 2011 at 21:29

Ok so once PC starts up for first time sort all security out etc then download latest driver for onboard graphics (AMD site). Then once I have graphics card. Uninstall drive shut down PC then when I start PC up with graphics card go back onto ATI site and get lastest driver?