hey all. ive not been in the loop as far as pc hardware goes for around 1 year or so
Now im looking at upgrading my old a64 rig, im replacing everything even down the the mouse lol. my budget is £2000 and this is what i have came up with. i just need to know im not going to run into any compatability problems, or anything that may effect the new rig in some way.
here is the spec which im looking at
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) Supplied with Airflow Fan (TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Series 7.1 Sound Card - Retail
Razer Diamondback 3G Frost Blue 1800dpi Gaming Mouse - Retail
Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 - Retail (66R-02266)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail
LiteON DH-16D2S-02C 16x Serial ATA DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM
BFG GeForce GTX 280 OC 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Antec Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
Samsung SM-2232BW Pebble 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black
Akasa Rounded Floppy Cable (0.45m) - Black
Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard (967929-0120)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy (7g)
Akasa SATA-2 45cm Silver Data Cable
Corsair HX 1000W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-1000HXUK)
Pioneer DVR-215DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Sony Floppy Drive - Black
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) x2
this is whats it's costing Total : £1,928.40
now the questions i have
whats this business about sound acceleration under vista.. will the sound card i picked be ok, i just read that vista does not use direct sound.. or something along them lines.
also is the psu enough.. regarding the rails, i read it's best to have more amps on thr 12v rail, as you can see im not so clued up where this is concerned so thats why im asking.
Now my main concern is the motherboard.. i have no idea on the different chipsets intel have on offer, as you can see i will be using a nvidia card and i have no plans for sli. i just want a good quality board thats going to be stable. and is the memory good enough for the motherboard.
I will be gaming on the rig mostly so it needs to be stable.
thank for for your help, as soon as i get enough input i will be ordering this today or tomorrow.
again many thanks.
Now im looking at upgrading my old a64 rig, im replacing everything even down the the mouse lol. my budget is £2000 and this is what i have came up with. i just need to know im not going to run into any compatability problems, or anything that may effect the new rig in some way.
here is the spec which im looking at
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) Supplied with Airflow Fan (TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Series 7.1 Sound Card - Retail
Razer Diamondback 3G Frost Blue 1800dpi Gaming Mouse - Retail
Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 - Retail (66R-02266)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail
LiteON DH-16D2S-02C 16x Serial ATA DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM
BFG GeForce GTX 280 OC 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Antec Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case
Samsung SM-2232BW Pebble 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black
Akasa Rounded Floppy Cable (0.45m) - Black
Logitech G11 Gaming Keyboard (967929-0120)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Arctic Silver Thermal Epoxy (7g)
Akasa SATA-2 45cm Silver Data Cable
Corsair HX 1000W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-1000HXUK)
Pioneer DVR-215DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Sony Floppy Drive - Black
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) x2
this is whats it's costing Total : £1,928.40
now the questions i have
whats this business about sound acceleration under vista.. will the sound card i picked be ok, i just read that vista does not use direct sound.. or something along them lines.
also is the psu enough.. regarding the rails, i read it's best to have more amps on thr 12v rail, as you can see im not so clued up where this is concerned so thats why im asking.
Now my main concern is the motherboard.. i have no idea on the different chipsets intel have on offer, as you can see i will be using a nvidia card and i have no plans for sli. i just want a good quality board thats going to be stable. and is the memory good enough for the motherboard.
I will be gaming on the rig mostly so it needs to be stable.
thank for for your help, as soon as i get enough input i will be ordering this today or tomorrow.
again many thanks.
