A quick thankyou

[pcAnywhere]

Just wanted to say thanks to the members of this forum for their advice on my new (and first) self-build system. The parts arrived yesterday and I had a working system by noon. Not only was the advice regarding specification more than useful, but the support that you’ve given to other noobs when their builds go wrong gave me confidence that I had some ‘tech support’ if things went kaboom...

My final, as built spec is..

Sonata II piano (with 450W PSU)
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra
Athlon 3700+ SD
GeIL 2GB Value Dual Channel Kit
PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO 256MB
+ HD and DVD DL RW

And it goes like stink (well, compared to me old Dimension 2400 it does!).

 

[pcAnywhere]

re: Games

I tend to only play RTS games (Civ, Rome, Sim City) hence the relativly low spec GPU, but I didn't realise how slow my old system was But with the GTO it flies through the 3D battle scenes and the CPU / memory allow the other parts to go zoom too.

re: Overclocking

Not something I would consider at the moment (although I have read the sticky in the CPU forum so you never know).

Now I'm trying to persuade my boss that his next system should be a self-build; Change the world, one person at a time