Check my final spec plz

owon · 7 Jun 2006 at 05:25

This is my final spec just wanted to check with the forum to c if I can improve on anything or if there is any compatability issue's.

Thank you.

OcUK GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-038-OK)
£259.95

Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-101-AS)

£56.95

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL)

£104.95

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4400CDBOX) (CP-127-AM)

£264.95

2x Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 200GB 2000JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-048-WD)

£45.95x2

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)

£14.95

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-054-LL)

£48.95

Tagan TG580-U15 580W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-009-TG)

£69.95

2x Akasa AK-183-L2B Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3 pin (FG-024-AK)

£14.95x2

Total £942.45

Quillian · 7 Jun 2006 at 07:13

That looks pretty beasty - i think your prices are without VAT though?

StarShock · 7 Jun 2006 at 07:15

all looks fine, but you may want to go for the AM2, its only a little faster and more expencive, but it will make upgrading much easyer

owon · 7 Jun 2006 at 08:12

Prices are without VAT my budget is £1100-£1200. I thought about AMD2 but from what i've read there dosent seem to be enough benefits with AMD2 and when I upgrade next year I wil probably go with conroe instead.

Stelly · 7 Jun 2006 at 08:36

would think about changing the RAM

Stelly

owon · 7 Jun 2006 at 09:48

Why??

Hlebio · 7 Jun 2006 at 12:23

That RAM is arguably the best out of all the value kits.. it's either that or the Corsair.

A.N.Other · 7 Jun 2006 at 12:29

I have some Corsair XMS PC3200 CL2 stuff in 2 x 1Gb. It is excellent stuff - seriously

. It's slightly more than what you have there though.

However, GeIL value is also excellent and people have got some amazing clocks out of it. If it was between the value kits, then I would stay with the GeIL.

It's up to you tbh. :rolleyes:

SiriusB · 7 Jun 2006 at 13:25

All good. Although I would go for an X1900XT. Theyre better faster cards and theyre also cheaper. In fact, this one is in This Week Only at £210 ex VAT

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3056) (GX-047-CO)

SiriusB

Explicit · 7 Jun 2006 at 13:28

As above, all looks fine, but the ATI route is cheaper so you might want to consider that

owon · 12 Jun 2006 at 02:31

Already purchased graphics card however I need to cut back on my budget by £40-£50 can someone help plz.

Raikiri · 12 Jun 2006 at 02:36

Get a 3800+ X2 to save the money and 2x250gb Samsung spinpoints. They are the same price and mine is excellent (very quiet, fast) plus you get 100gb extra storage.

Also get G.Skill ddr500 ram, will be better for OCing and you can just fit it in your budget with the 3800+x2

owon · 12 Jun 2006 at 02:44

Is there a big performance difference in the 3800-4400

Raikiri · 12 Jun 2006 at 02:48

It has half the cache and is 200mhz slower but it overclocks well, at best it is 8-10% slower at worst it is about 18-20% slower at stock. But not many things use the cache to a large extent.

owon · 12 Jun 2006 at 02:51

Would it not be better going for a cheaper case and lower power supply to save the extra £40-£50 and gain the extra performance

Raikiri · 12 Jun 2006 at 02:54

Hiper HPU-4M580 Type R 580W ATX2.2 PSU - Black (CA-009-HP)
Price: £44.95 (£52.82 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Antec Super LANBOY Aluminum Super Mini Tower Case - No PSU (CA-012-AN)
Price: £28.75 (£33.78 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Wouldnt go any lower than that

owon · 12 Jun 2006 at 03:03

will I still get great performance from the system and is everything still compatable including 120mm fans for case

Raikiri · 12 Jun 2006 at 03:04

Yep, you could even leave the akasa ambers out and get a better PSU. The ones that come with this case are pretty good and just about silent at 7v.

str · 12 Jun 2006 at 04:27

I would stick with everything in your first post as I'm sure you had good reason for choosing the CPU, case and PSU etc and to reduce it by £40 or so remove one of the hard drives. Later on you could purchase an additional hard drive.

owon · 12 Jun 2006 at 05:07

What about this

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-070-WD)

It will save me £35 and still have large storage I was origianlly going with this drive in the first pace but was advised to go with 2x200 gig as they are more reliable is this true.