Building a new PC - Please help!

Dr_Doom · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:22

Hi. I’m about to build myself a new pc and could do with some advice. I’ve not built one for a year or two so I’m not up to date with things. The list below is what I’m planning to buy, I’d appreciate it if you let me know whether it sound’s ok or whether I’m about to make a big balls up

I’m planning on picking up these parts from Overclockers tomorrow afternoon.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ 3.00GHz Retail
Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe
2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C4 TwinX Dual Channel Kit
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
OCZ StealthXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM

Also, I have 2x 200GB IDE hard drives in my old PC. Will I be able to connect these to the new motherboard using the 1 available IDE socket?

Any advice you can give would be much appreciated.

Cheers

Paul11 · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:34

how much does that come too?
are you gong to overclock?
have you considered an intel core2duo spec?

edit:

and hi and welcome to the forums

Dr_Doom · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:46

It comes to around £500 which is my budget give or take a bit.. I don't think i'll be overclocking it to be honest but it'd be good to have the option. I'll be mainly using it as media pc connected to my HD Tv but i'll probably dable with a few games.

I've had a look at the intel duel core's, it was a toss up between this AMD one and the "Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.86GHz (1066FSB)" one. Are the intel one's better?.. my last few pcs have all been AMD.

Thanks

Mr Jack · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:49

You could drop down to a 520W PSU, and save yourself a few bob. Nothing there that needs that much.

Dr_Doom · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:51

Mr Jack said:
You could drop down to a 520W PSU, and save yourself a few bob. Nothing there that needs that much.

Would the graphics card run ok? It says on the site to have a 500w mnimum psu and recomends 600w+ That's why i went for the 600w one.

Cheers for the help

Dr_Doom · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:58

Edit - I'd say my budget is roughly £500 for

Processor
Mboard
Memory
GFX Card
PSU

mp260767 · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:03

bout the same as your's for core2duo:

BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £169.99 (£199.74)

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £57.99 (£68.14)

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £36.99 (£43.46)

Abit IP35-E (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99 (£76.36)

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £106.99
(£125.71)

Sub Total : £436.95
VAT : £78.03
Total : £515 and change

Dr_Doom · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:08

Do you think this setup will run better?.. I've heard AMDs run quite hot is this true?... I keep my main PC in my bedroom so i could do with it running reasonably quiet..

stickroad · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:13

How's this:

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2
Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU

Total : £508.65

Overclock the CPU to 3GHz+ and your have a nice system.

Dr_Doom · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:24

Sound's intersting.. Are they easy enough & safe to overclock?

- I could do with something that's not too much hassle to set up

stickroad · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:25

Dr_Doom said:
Sound's intersting.. Are they easy enough & safe to overclock?

Yep, it will be fine, no need to worry what so ever.

Paul11 · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:32

i would go intel and overclock.. best bang for buck so to speak

Dr_Doom · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:02

stickroad said:
How's this:

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2
Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU

Total : £508.65

Overclock the CPU to 3GHz+ and your have a nice system.

I will probably go for this set up unless anyone has any other ideas?

Quick questions,

I've already got an alaska 460w psu.. They recomended minimum 500w for the gfx card so do i really need a new 520w one or would i be ok?

The 1.80GHz seems a bit cheap at £50, are they ok?.. If i could stretch to a Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.33GHz (1333FSB) - would it be worth it??

Thanks again for all your help