Final Spec Check

[Bales1983]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the sound adive ive been receivign for the last few days on here, after working out different components ive come up with this:

Akasa Serial ATA PSU Converter £1.99 (£2.34)

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 XT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £139.99 (£164.49)

Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6600 2.40GHz Retail / Gigabyte 965P DS3 / 2GB GeIL PC2-6400C4 DDR2 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle £415.97 (£488.76)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £47.99 (£56.39)

Akasa "Y" Power Splitter £1.50 (£1.76)

Akasa SATA-2 60cm Silver Data Cable £4.49 (£5.28)

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £66.99 (£78.71)

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99 (£70.49)

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) £13.99 (£16.44)

Sub Total : £752.90

Shipping : £9.95

Vat : £133.50

Total : £896.35

I was working to a 900 quid budget so looks like I just made it, any suggestions for better components at the same sort of price?

Ive never installed to a sata before (still on ide) How is it done??

Also id like to keep my 160gb ide drive as a storage drive, this mobo only has 1 ide socket but i have 2 optical drives also so how do i get around that?

Thanks again all

Lee

 

[stickroad]

sorry wrong post

 

[semi-pro waster]

You don't need the SATA PSU connector because the Corsair PSU will come with a few SATA connections but I suppose for the price it makes little different and on similar lines you probably don't need the Y splitter either as it will have plenty of connections.

SATA on a modern motherboard is no more difficult than IDE was, you shouldn't need any drivers unless you were setting up Raid, you might have to go into the bios and set it to IDE compatability mode or similar though. You don't really need the SATA cable either since one will come with the motherboard but the Akasa one may look nicer.

If you really want to use all your IDE based devices then you either need to get an IDE controller card which shouldn't cost much more than about £15 max (OcUK don't appear to sell them any more though) or an IDE-SATA convertor however these might be less reliable so I'd probably do without an optical drive for the moment until you can buy a controller card if you miss having both enough.

The rest are all good solid components.