A first build help (please!)

i would say 500-550 watt for a psu and im sure a 4850 will run that and a hell a lot of other games fine,by the way 1 tip,basicly never take notice of supported cards if its a new graphics card.hope this helps
 
Ok, thanks.

Now I have a very silly question, but like I said I don't have much experience at all...

The sockets at the back of the case (modem, monitor, etc) doesn't come with the case I believe. I read in an article that all those connections are on the mobo.

I didn't think that made sence, so are they PCI cards instead?
 
no mate, the motherboard has all the ports on the side of it. The case has a rectangular hole at that back, and when you install the mobo to the case, all the ports fit through into the hole.

Moniter port comes from the gfx card, rest is on the motherboard.
 
DeadlySurfer said:
Hey again.

Done my research, came up with this. (It's pretty much whats been said)

AMD Phenom II X2 550 3.10Ghz
Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
Kingston HyperX 4GB
Seagate Barracuda 500GB
Pioneer optical drive
Antec 300 case
Creative Xtreme Gamer (Already got)

And now the help I need :confused:

Power supply - I did a calc online and it said I needed about 250w running everything and a ATI Radeon HD 4850. So I'm thinking of getting theOCZ StealthXStream 400w. It's supposedly silent (Good for my music production) and I don't want to spend a bomb juts on power.

Also, an ATI Radeon 4850. I'm not sure if I could run Oblivion on this, doesn't say its supported, so any help there.
The monitor depends on the graphics card creally, as it changes my budget.I was thinking of the Samsung SM2233BW 22" or similar.

Any help would be appriciated.
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not knowing a great deal about the performance of AMD i can't offer great advise but would suggest you stick with the 955 Quad Core 3.2ghz. It's top end for AMD and also a lot of games will be developed into using quad core.
 
I'm going to stick with the Dual I think.

I don't really need the Quad for what I'm doing, I'm not a hardcore gamer, I just need a bit of speed to get my apps done.

Also, the price is an issue. I'd rather stick with the Dual now, as I believe it's suitable for me.

Thanks for the help though
 
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