building a new pc

[MiXeR]

Ok this is my first post on here I am building a new pc for my son who is heavily into gaming he also is doing a course (hoping to get his a-levels) in e-media which I think involves video editing flash etc I was thing of getting him Sapphire ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 Graphics Card and an MSI motherboard he has two hard drives an 80 gig and a 300 gig both ide so he does not need them what he needs is motherboard graphics processor memory and a tower all suggestions welcome and please post links to the products.

 

[Broon]

hi welcome to the forums. If you see sic approaching hide as he has a habit of harvesting new members .

How much are you looking to spend?

 

[MiXeR]

Will look at all possibilities price I dont know around £400 to £600 all in.Maybe a little more.

 

[Broon]

Antec SLK3800BUK Black Quiet Midi Tower Case - 400W SmartPower PSU (CA-048-AN): £61 here

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM): £206 here

OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK): £52 here

MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-046-MS): £76 here

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC): £252 here

Total price is just short of £650 and I've included VAT.

 

[MiXeR]

Ok thanks for that have saved all the details. Anybody else have any other suggestions ?
I take it the graphics card is a good one he will be able to play all the latest games etc with it ?

 

[fenderbass86]

Latest and future games will rely on 2GB RAM.

 

[MiXeR]

Ok Broon I will be placing an order soon just checking I have ordered the right components check below and let me know.
CA-048-AN Antec SLK3800BUK Black Quiet Midi Tower Case - 400W SmartPower PSU (CA-048-AN) 1
£51.95 £51.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM) 1
£175.95 £175.95
MY-004-OK OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK) 1
£39.95 £39.95
MB-046-MS MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-046-MS) 1
£64.95 £64.95
GX-048-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC) 1
£214.95 £214.95
Subtotal £547.75
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £16.95
VAT £98.83
Total £663.53

 

[MiXeR]

And what ram would you recommend fenderbass86 ?

 

[Broon]

ye all the components are compatiable but could somenody please confirm the PSU will provide enough power and that the X1800XT comes with a power cable as the PSU will not have the 6pin connector required for PCI-x cards.

 

[MiXeR]

The motherboard will take ide drives ok yes ?

 

[Soul Rider]

The motherboard will take ide drives ok yes ?

Yes, IDE is the default drive connector. SATA drives are newer technologies which have yet to become standard.

That looks a fairly decent set-up there, the only possible difference may be going for 2GB Kit of the OCuk Value RAM (2x1GB) rather than the 1GB kit, purely because you would see a big benefit during video editing and encoding.

Other than that this is a fine system.

 

[nO}{8]

video editing is very ram heavy, id recommend at least 2gb.

 

[ACESHIGH]

Ok Broon I will be placing an order soon just checking I have ordered the right components check below and let me know.
CA-048-AN Antec SLK3800BUK Black Quiet Midi Tower Case - 400W SmartPower PSU (CA-048-AN) 1
£51.95 £51.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM) 1
£175.95 £175.95
MY-004-OK OcUK Value 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-004-OK) 1
£39.95 £39.95
MB-046-MS MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-046-MS) 1
£64.95 £64.95
GX-048-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC) 1
£214.95 £214.95
Subtotal £547.75
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £16.95
VAT £98.83
Total £663.53

Looks very good!
but as said 2 gig ram would help.

 

[MiXeR]

Ok guys thanks for your help its much appreciated will be ordering the whole lot tomorrow including 2gb of ram again thanks for your help.

 

[MiXeR]

Ok guys got it build all working well when I was re-installing windows I had to set bios to boot from cd drive what to I change it back to and also I am putting 2 dvd drives in it do I have to set one to master and one to slave ?
These questions may sound stupid but its a long time since I did anything like this.

 

[volt9291]

Ok guys got it build all working well when I was re-installing windows I had to set bios to boot from cd drive what to I change it back to and also I am putting 2 dvd drives in it do I have to set one to master and one to slave ?
These questions may sound stupid but its a long time since I did anything like this.

Put the hard drive with XP on as boot device 1

not to sure about the dvd drives, i think putting master as top, and the second drive on the ide as slave will be ok.

 

[MiXeR]

Cheers