Check my spec before i order cheers

krugger · 2 Apr 2006 at 17:41

Going to order the following could you check and make sure i'm not ordering any thing that will cause me problems?

AMD Opteron UP 144 San Diego 1.8GHz 1MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-141-AM) £123.32 Including VAT (comes with a cooler i believe which i will stick with for now.

Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 160GB 6V160E0 SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-091-MD) £49.94 Including VAT

BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-019-BG) £158.57 Including VAT people happy with this card/

Abit AX8 VIA K8T890 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-063-AB)£70.44 Including VAT does this support dual channel ast it has via chip set thought that was only with nforce

If you think any items should be changed the advice will be apreciated if i can save some cash even better.

I will be using my old case and geil dual channel ddr modules 512MBx2 (my-005-gl) and a EZcool 600W PSU.
Cheers in advance

FreeStream · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:04

Why are you getting a Opteron with such a rubbish board???

Get any nForce 4 board, the DFI Ultra-D being the best!

Conc

liam72uk · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:05

I would swap that maxtor hard drive for the samsung Equivalent.

fenderbass86 · 2 Apr 2006 at 18:56

liam72uk said:
I would swap that maxtor hard drive for the samsung Equivalent.

Listen to the man.

wellibob · 2 Apr 2006 at 19:05

Why are you getting a Opteron with such a rubbish board???

Listen to the Man ...

krugger · 2 Apr 2006 at 20:27

Thx for the advice is this one your on about

DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-014-DF) (£93.94 Including VAT

its more than i was thinking. in the past i've bought abit nf-s and kv8 i think and bothhave been good boards i also saw on one post that some one recommend this board i'm happy to go with your recommmendation but would like as matter of interest to do what is better (better manu etc)?

See it says 100% japanese capasitors thats got to be a plus i work for a japanese company and it looks like we have fitted the wrong ones for years now and its all gone pete tong on us leaking and blowing up short circuiting

Why swap for the samsung never bought one of them before but willing to try?

cheers agin

Monstermunch · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:01

I think this would suffice:

CP-141-AM AMD Opteron UP 144 San Diego 1.8GHz 1MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-141-AM)
£104.95 £104.95
MB-046-MS MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-046-MS)
£64.95 £64.95
GX-042-HT HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-042-HT)
£159.95 £159.95
HD-001-HI Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 NCQ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A31637) (HD-001-HI)
£44.95 £44.95
Subtotal £374.80
VAT £65.59
Total £440.39

The DFI board you mentioned is definitely a better mobo but with your budget and other items I would say slightly OTT. This MSI board clocks well and is nearly £20 cheaper. Try and stretch to the x1800xl card if you can it is streaks ahead of the 7600gt, next gen in fact. As far as the HDD goes it's a matter of opinion, the Maxtor is rubbish but i'd go with the deskstar, although there's nothing wrong with the samsung.

krugger · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:07

thx agin few differences there could you explain the benifits?
cheers
edit:
du i didn't read every thing cheers

krugger · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:13

ATX v2.0 compliant PSU Required for PCI-E Graphics/Motherboard
what does this mean i think mine must be old tipe atx does an adapter come with the card

krugger · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:42

i'm going bold (bolder any way) just been recommended intel what peoples view between the two manu's been on amd for the past 4-5 years and happy?

fenderbass86 · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:43

You can get 20 pin - 24 pin adapters but I thinmk you will be better of buying a better PSU, something more powerful and more up to date.

Monstermunch · 2 Apr 2006 at 23:06

fenderbass86 said:
You can get 20 pin - 24 pin adapters but I thinmk you will be better of buying a better PSU, something more powerful and more up to date.

You're having a giraffe aren't ya. If you're thinking of gaming, Intels suck ***

Here are the differences:

Intel Pentium D
24k L1 Cache - Per Core
1mb or 2mb L2 Cache - Per Core
sse2, sse3
Up To 800mhz FSB Half Duplex
Up to 6.4gb/s Memory Bandwidth
95 or 130w power consumption

AMD Dual Core
128k L1 Cache - Per Core
512k or 1mb L2 Cache - Per Core
sse, sse2, sse3, 3D Now
Built in Memory Controller
Up to 400mhz FSB
2000mhz Hypertransport Full Duplex
Up to 14.4gb/s Memory Bandwidth
89 or 110w power consumption

Intels use more power and they're slower and could cost you much more for components, like ram for example. Look at the prices for 800mhz ram!

A recent benchmark i've seen shows a 4800+ beating a 3.2ghz Pentium D in games, 3d mark and just about everything else except maybe video encoding.

Midget^ · 2 Apr 2006 at 23:23

Sorry this is off topic:

Why do I never see people specing the 16mb cache SATA HDD's, instead going for the 8mb? Is there a reason for this or does it just not really make any difference?

Monstermunch · 2 Apr 2006 at 23:30

Midget^ said:
Sorry this is off topic:

Why do I never see people specing the 16mb cache SATA HDD's, instead going for the 8mb? Is there a reason for this or does it just not really make any difference?

It does make a difference but you can't get 16mb cache on a drive smaller than 250gb. The 16mb cache actually gives better performace increases when in a raid0 config for some reason. Also the drives with 16mb cache on smaller drive sizes don't tend to be as reliable as the other manufacturers.

The best HDD's atm are the Deskstars (16mb on 500gb only) or the Spinpoints, which only have 8mb cache on 250gb or smaller.