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Hi,

Will be running Linux as its main OS, but will be dual booting Windows XP. Will be using it for web, downloads, media watching/ listening, and Flight Sim X (Going for my private Pilot's license so need the practice y'see) :)

Was thinking something along the lines of a 64bit processor, 2-4 GB RAM decentish graphics card, but I'm a bit out of the loop with hardware these days :

I already have a monitor, sound card, and peripherals so just the spec for the box please :)

Open to any budget- got no idea what I need to be spending really!

Oh and it must be quiet!!! :)
Thanks
 
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If you're just flight-simming on a standard monitor, go for a 600-700 spec with a GTS and an E6600, it wont disappoint.
 
Wowawiwa Wasn't looking to spend quite that much! Thought £600 tops might do it!

I have a 22" widescreen monitor so need a suitable spec graphics card btw.
 
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If you want a better grapics card you'll need to increase your budget or sacrifice other components for cheaper alternatives.
 
ChoÞÞer said:
Nice spec :) would change case tbh to many people have it now :(
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The PC7 is still a great case. If I was building a new setup tomorrow I would still get one.
 
Thanks that looks much more suitable :) That's given me an idea of what sort of thing I should be looking at now.

I am currently running IDE drives in my PC- 1x 80GiB Western Digital 8MB Cache jobbie and a 320GiB Seagate Barracuda. Will I see a performance increase by going with the HDs listed here? What are the Seagates like noise- wise? I remember I bought the 320GiB for general file storage because it was virtually silent in operation.

Also I really really want a very very quiet machine- I currently have a Coolermaster ATCs- 201 (I think- its the 'brown' case anyway :D) so will the cases listed here be better or worse in terms of cooling performance than the one I already have?

Also taking the case out of the equasion would mean I could up the graphics card and/ or processor or double the RAM. I reckon I will need to go for a big processor heatsink too to acheive my goal in my quest for near- silence.

Oh sorry and one more thing- just also remembered I already have the optical drive (BenQ 8x DVDRW) so can free up another £20 there.



Thanks for the help so far guys- much appreciateted :)
 
Everybody seems to be spec'ing 8800 series cards. nVidia released its most recent AMD64 Linux drivers for this on March 7th and they claim it includes initial support for the 8800 series so this should be OK. ATi/AMD has promised full working open source drivers for its cards but they have yet to make any releases. At the moment the 8800s are the best pick but should ATi/AMD make a release before you buy that would change.

Why change cases? The ATCs you have is very very highly regarded.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
Everybody seems to be spec'ing 8800 series cards. nVidia released its most recent AMD64 Linux drivers for this on March 7th and they claim it includes initial support for the 8800 series so this should be OK. ATi/AMD has promised full working open source drivers for its cards but they have yet to make any releases. At the moment the 8800s are the best pick but should ATi/AMD make a release before you buy that would change.

Why change cases? The ATCs you have is very very highly regarded.
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Yeah that was kind of my thought on the case too... Just want to know if the ones listed would offer better cooling than my one.

If it does, where should the £60 or so go in to more RAM, better CPU, or better graphics?

Cheers
 
If you want it quiet, the Samsung Spinpoints are better than the Seagate Barracudas, which can chatter a bit. SATA drives like those mentioned should comfortably outperform their IDE equivalents.

Spend some of the £60 on a decent cooler I'd say.
 
Ok thanks.... so if I am to keep my exisiting case and not get an optical drive, is there anything else apart from the cooler that would benefit from the extra cash?

Thanks
 
If you can push an extra £40 into the budget then go for this:

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The extra 320mb of the 8800 will help with future games. Plus it's a BFG so has a lifetime warranty.

The corsair will do a great job and cope easily with the kit listed.

The geil works well with the Gigabyte which in turn clocks very well so should push the 6420 over 3ghz.

And finally the scythe is a very decent bit of kit.

gt
 
gt_junkie said:
If you can push an extra £40 into the budget then go for this:

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The extra 320mb of the 8800 will help with future games. Plus it's a BFG so has a lifetime warranty.

The corsair will do a great job and cope easily with the kit listed.

The geil works well with the Gigabyte which in turn clocks very well so should push the 6420 over 3ghz.

And finally the scythe is a very decent bit of kit.

gt
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Looks grand- thanks :)
 
just be careful of specing for flight sim x, with addons etc it does need a meaty system to run from the details i've got off friends i know that use it.
 
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