Finally gave up the ghost!

BuckOff

BuckOff

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Hi everyone, my PC finally packed in:eek:! Now I'm looking for a relatively cheap upgrade, the PC will be used for mainly web browsing, a bit of video editing, quickpar and that's about it, I'm going to continue to use my windows XP disc for the time being and the hard drives, until funds permit, also I have a new R3 case, so any help appreciated and if I've missed anything out please let me know.
 
So what do you need?

Everything for a base unit, except a case.

Is the harddrive IDE or SATA?

Can you keep the optical drive? is it SATA or IDE?

Budget?
 
Yes pretty much everything, hard drives are SATA, optical drives are ide, so prob will want new, also the system is connected to my LCD tv and I've just bought a samsung bluray surround sound, but both hdmi's are being used so system connects direct to tv and ideally I'd want to connect the audio via optical, if that would work? Appreciate your help
 
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Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £161.99
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Asrock Z68 PRO3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £99.98
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So keep your case and harddrive.

The motherboard has these outputs on the back.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=Z68 Pro3&cat=Specifications
I/O Panel
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard Port
- 1 x VGA/D-Sub Port
- 1 x VGA/DVI-D Port
- 1 x HDMI Port
- 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port
- 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports
- 2 x Ready-to-Use USB 3.0 Ports
- 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED (ACT/LINK LED and SPEED LED)
- HD Audio Jack: Rear Speaker / Central / Bass / Line in / Front Speaker / Microphone
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You can use the CPU's built in graphics core or add a discrete graphics card later if you fancy some gaming.

You may need a 8pin CPU power extension cable too for your big case.

Or even add 8GB of RAM - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-094-KS&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1517
 
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Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £161.99
(£134.99) £161.99
(£134.99)
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
(£74.99) £89.99
(£74.99)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
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Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £53.99
(£44.99) £53.99
(£44.99)
LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Sub Total : £319.12
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DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £65.82
Total : £394.94

This board - http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3897#ov

1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
1 x parallel port
1 x serial port
1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
1 x HDMI port
4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports
1 x RJ-45 port
3 x audio jacks (Line In/Line Out/Microphone)
Click to expand...

So it doesnt have DVI or a DSUB like the Asrock does.
 
Or there is AMD Llano.

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AMD Llano A8-3850 2.90GHz (Socket FM1) APU Processor (AD3850WNGXBOX) with FREE DIRT3 PC Game £99.98
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Asus F1A75-M AMD A75 Chipset (Socket FM1) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
(£66.66) £79.99
(£66.66)
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £59.99
(£49.99) £59.99
(£49.99)
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (KHX1600C9D3X2K2/8GX) £53.99
(£44.99) £53.99
(£44.99)
LiteOn IHAS124-19 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£14.16) £16.99
(£14.16)
Sub Total : £259.12
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 20.00% VAT : £53.82
Total : £322.94

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_Socket_FM1/F1A75M/#specifications

1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse combo port(s)
1 x DVI
1 x D-Sub
1 x HDMI
1 x LAN (RJ45) port(s)
2 x USB 3.0
4 x USB 2.0
1 x Optical S/PDIF out
6 x Audio jack(s
Click to expand...
 
Just to point out. If your connecting it via to the telly then you wont want to be using optical for the sound. Just use HDMI. One less cable and superior to optical.

That should open up a bit of choice on mobos. Maybe.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
Just to point out. If your connecting it via to the telly then you wont want to be using optical for the sound. Just use HDMI. One less cable and superior to optical.

That should open up a bit of choice on mobos. Maybe.
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I'm wanting to utilise the speaker setup from my surround for my pc, it's a blu-ray player/Amp which only has 2 HDMI inputs and these are being used by my XBox and SkyHD, so I was thinking the only other alternative was to go direct from my PC to a HDMI on my TV and use the optical in on my surround sound for the audio from my PC, if that makes sense?

Ive ordered the Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 and rest of the stuff, hope the mobo will do :)
 
BuckOff said:
I'm wanting to utilise the speaker setup from my surround for my pc, it's a blu-ray player/Amp which only has 2 HDMI inputs and these are being used by my XBox and SkyHD, so I was thinking the only other alternative was to go direct from my PC to a HDMI on my TV and use the optical in on my surround sound for the audio from my PC, if that makes sense?

Ive ordered the Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 and rest of the stuff, hope the mobo will do :)
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Ah, in that case optical will be fine. I just presumed you had free HDMI ports on the amp.
 
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Sorry, didn't know whether to start a new thread or not, finally sort of built up the PC but every time it boots up it goes straight to bios? Is that normal? I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this and also it's showing CPU fan error, I have a noctua d14 fitted via splitter and it's connected to cha-fan2, any help appreciated
 
I use my LCD tv for my PC and use a DVI>HDMI cable, sound comes through my tv and surround sound system connecting to the TV, so there's no need for optical
 
You need to install the operating system? :)

Have a look and see if the CPU fan is spinning.

Optical is limited to non-"HD" formats. You'll only miss out with blu-ray sources or similar.
 
BuckOff said:
Sorry, didn't know whether to start a new thread or not, finally sort of built up the PC but every time it boots up it goes straight to bios? Is that normal? I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to this and also it's showing CPU fan error, I have a noctua d14 fitted via splitter and it's connected to cha-fan2, any help appreciated
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The Noctua must be connected to CPU_FAN header so the board can detect a RPM.
 
Software is installed and CPU fans are both running, it loads into bios then I've got to discard and exit then windows loads up
 
My fault :rolleyes: you wouldn't think I'm an engineering tech after that simple mistake, I was looking at the pin configuration and just thought it was wrong, but plugged it in and located ok, the pin config from fan hasn't got the PWM but the header had! Anyway no CPU fan error and now boots straight into windows, thanks everyone :D next challenge please
 
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