Building a new PC

Funkie · 2 Mar 2006 at 09:49

Thinking of building this rig what are your thoughts

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4200BVBOX) (CP-126-AM) £258.44

Sapphire PURE Advantage CrossFire Radeon Xpress 200P CrossFire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-003-SP) £93.94

Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS) £146.82

Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-015-WD) £110.39

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC) £258.44

Coolermaster Wave Master - Silver (No PSU) (CA-037-CM) £88.07

Q-Tec 650W Triple Fan Gold PSU (CA-003-QT) £23.44

Mitsumi FA 404M 7in1 USB 2.0 Floppy & Media Drive - Silver (HD-000-MI) £16.39

Pioneer DVR-110DSV 16 x 16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Silver) OEM (CD-033-PO) £29.32

SpeedLink Ultra SL-6465 Flat Metal Keyboard (KB-000-SL) £23.44

Netgear DG834PN 108Mbps Rangemax Wireless ADSL2 Modem/Router/Switch/Firewall (NW-083-NG) £76.96

Funkie · 2 Mar 2006 at 10:06

probably not as I wouldnt know what I was doing

Funkie · 2 Mar 2006 at 10:28

went for that graphics card so I could buy 2 within my budget

what problems have there been with the Sapphire PURE Advantage CrossFire Radeon Xpress 200P CrossFire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-003-SP)?

Funkie · 2 Mar 2006 at 15:34

hmmm the gpu had a crossfire badge on the picture http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X800PCI_Series.html

Funkie · 3 Mar 2006 at 09:52

thanks m8 your saved me a few quid

Funkie · 7 Mar 2006 at 12:47

What about this gpu its £23.52 more but double the memory than the Connect3D

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC) £258.44

what do you think?

Funkie · 7 Mar 2006 at 13:23

main pc of the house the kids have thiers I have a laptop and this one will be down stairs running games office everything

its being upgraded from a dual core intel 3ghz system

Funkie · 7 Mar 2006 at 14:28

right done that

so which is better deal

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC) £258.44 (£23.52 more but double the memory)

or

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO) £234.94

Funkie · 10 Mar 2006 at 11:33

That rig above with that psu cuz I already had it but I've ordered a Tagan
gave me this bench mark is it any good

Funkie · 10 Mar 2006 at 12:28

I prefer this one on 3dmark5