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FishPolice

FishPolice

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Already got these bits:

AMD Opteron 146
G.Skill 2GB DDR ZX PC3200
Asrock 939Dual-SATA2

I will be ordering the following tomorrow to go with the above:


Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler

OcUK GeForce 7900 GT 256MB
Zalman ZM-RHS1 VGA RAM Heatsink Kit
Zalman VF900-CU Quiet Copper VGA Cooler

Samsung SpinPoint 80GB SATA-II

Antec P150 Quiet PC Case

I will be overclocking and plan to volt mod both the motherboard and the GPU.

1. Any thoughts/alternative recommendations to the above?
2. Will the 430-Watt Neo HE PSU be up to the job of powering these overclocked components?
3. How well will Fear & Oblivion run on this system?

ps. I am sooo dead when the missus finds out :eek:
 
doh I just realised that the VF900 comes with ram heatsinks so thats a tenner saved already :)

I'd love a Seasonic and had my heart set on one of the 500 or 600w versions but I will have to save up some more. I will see how the Antec PSU copes in the meantime.
 
I have a 3700+ at 2.65ghz and a 7900gt at 640/1900 and my 400W Akasa PSU copes fine. I also have 4 case fans, a VF900, a DVD drive and a 200gb HD, all being powered by the 400W, so your setup should be alright with that 430W
 
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thanks Johanson :)

Just been reading through the 7900 clocking thread. Looks like the 7900 card is definitely the way to go for me & my limited cash. Do you reckon that OcUK card will clock ok or should I look at another brand ? -money is pretty tight as it is but I've just saved a tenner so I could maybe stretch things a bit..
 
From what Gibbo(OcUK buying manager) posted earlier all the OcUK 7900gt cards are XFX but without the full bundles, XFX are a tier1 partner so they get a good choice of Nvidia chips so I'd go with them and although there are no guarantees the chance are good that it will clock well :)
 
ok thanks for the reassurance guys :)

I've just ordered the case, fan & hd. Now all I need to do is dig out my crash helmet and go for the GPU as well. Jeez she's gonna go nuts :D
 
semi-pro waster said:
From what Gibbo(OcUK buying manager) posted earlier all the OcUK 7900gt cards are XFX but without the full bundles, XFX are a tier1 partner so they get a good choice of Nvidia chips so I'd go with them and although there are no guarantees the chance are good that it will clock well :)
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Got my card today (plus all the rest of the stuff I'd ordered) :D
The 7900GT is a Galaxy. Are these any good?
 
FishPolice said:
Got my card today (plus all the rest of the stuff I'd ordered) :D
The 7900GT is a Galaxy. Are these any good?
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I've got a Galaxy 6800gt and never had any problems with it although it appears I was one of the lucky ones as there were a few issues with those models, I haven't heard of any other problems for a while. Overall though I think they are a good company, best thing to do is just build the PC and see how it performs. If there are any problems then you can obviously RMA if needed, good luck with the build :)
 
ok cheers :)

Gonna stick it together later this week. Waited since xmas for all these bits so I'm sure I can wait a couple of days more until I get some time to myself so I don't have to rush it. Will run it at stock for the 1st month & then volt mod the mobo & GPU.

Might have to pop back in this forum later for setup advice. Been a while since my last (& only) proper build. One daft question though -I understand I will need to install SATA driver/s during XP install...these can be installed off a cd right? Floppy drive is dead again.

Shame the missus had an unexpected day off -came home at lunchtime to find she'd signed for the bits. gulp :eek:
 
Haha, unlucky there getting nabbed for buying the parts so soon. :D

It depends on how your motherboard manufacturer has implemented SATA whether you will need to install any drivers at all. I know that Nforce4 motherboards automatically work with SATA drives but I'm not so sure with Via based motherboards. If you don't have a floppy disk drive and you do need SATA drivers then you will probably have to create a 'slip-streamed' copy of XP, you can do this with a program called nLite I think.

Another thing to do is check the bios options as some have IDE compatability modes to allow Windows to see SATA drives as if they were the older PATA style.
 
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