Final Spec Check Please :)

Kae

Kae

Kae

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So, the day has finally arrived (well, at least one of the next two days will be the final day) and I will actually be purchasing my new PC!!! :D:D

This will be my first complete new build, I've always cobbled from cast-offs before, but this is it, the one! :D

OK, so I'm sad, but I know it :rolleyes:



So, my final spec is:

Lian Li PC-7FN Case - Black 1 76.99 76.99
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 955 Black Edition 3.20GHz (Socket AM3) - Retail - C3 Stepping prefferable (Product code ends in MBOX for C3, IBOX for C2) 1 121.89 121.89
Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4 (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard 1 107.99 107.99
G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit 1 84.99 84.99
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache 1 64.99 64.99
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply 1 64.99 64.99
Pioneer DVR-S18L 22x DVD+-RW SATA Labelflash ReWriter Black 1 20.99 20.99
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Retail Full Version 1 99.99 99.99





Total 642.82

I have a graphics card (will be upgraded in the future, but is more than good enough for now), monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers etc.

This is a photography/video rig. I don't really play games, so thats not a consideration.

Opinions?

Cheers,

Andy.
 
Cheers guys, its been a long process started with an offhand comment to one of the guys at OC and literally hours and hours of reading to come to that final list...

Future upgrades would be another HD, another memory pack and a better graphics card when I upgrade to programs that can use the GPU for processing.... but thats in the future!

Cheers,

Andy.
 
You may want to consider this Asus motherboard instead:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

OTH,the Gigabyte motherboard you have listed has SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0 so I assume this is the reason you have listed it??

If you don't need Crossfire,SATA 3.0 or USB 3.0 I would get the following motherboard:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-355-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

The motherboard has an 8+2 phase VRM with cooling,all solid capacitors and an HD4200 integrated graphics with 128MB of onboard DDR3.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
You may want to consider this Asus motherboard instead:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-366-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

OTH,the Gigabyte motherboard you have listed has SATA 3.0 and USB 3.0 so I assume this is the reason you have listed it??

If you don't need Crossfire,SATA 3.0 or USB 3.0 I would get the following motherboard:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-355-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1481

The motherboard has an 8+2 phase VRM with cooling,all solid capacitors and an HD4200 integrated graphics with 128MB of onboard DDR3.
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Indeed, I wanted to keep things future proof as external devices feature quite heavily in my work.

Any reason to get those boards other than money saving? I don't mind spending the extra on the board if its going to help future proof my build (as I tend to keep PC's until they're old and dying).

Cheers CTF, you've been a huge help with this!

Andy.
 
Kae said:
Indeed, I wanted to keep things future proof as external devices feature quite heavily in my work.

Any reason to get those boards other than money saving? I don't mind spending the extra on the board if its going to help future proof my build (as I tend to keep PC's until they're old and dying).

Cheers CTF, you've been a huge help with this!

Andy.
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The Asus motherboards are cheaper but in terms of functionality the Gigabyte is better IMHO.

I also tend to keep my PCs for as long as possible too.
 
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Cheers CTF, you've been a great help answering my posts of multiple questions!

Think I'll go with the spec as is.... unless anyone has anything else to add?

Cheers,

Andy.
 
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Kae said:
Why??

Future proofing is my intent as I'm not likely to change this board for another 4 or 5 years.
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Gigabyte steal half the PCI-E bandwidth on the 'A' revisions. If you NEED those features either buy an add-in card or change the motherboard for an Asus as they include the card in the box.

I looked on the gigabyte website and did a comparison on all the P55 chipsets. The only one which matched my requirements believe it or not was the UD2
 
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