UNder £10 with p&p
First Build! :D
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UNder £10 with p&p
Because I'm a 17 Year old with not a lot of money, I have Saturday job at a pub collecting glasses, and the pays rubbish.
I brake caravans, and build tear-drop trailers with my Dad to get some more money with him (It's a 50/50 split type of thing with buying the caravans aswell) and the money earned from them is used on the tear-drops or me buying engine parts for my vw air-cooled engine rebuild.
I'm also trying to save up so i can go to Florida next year, So money is a little bit tight at the minute, shouldn't be in the next couple of days so my budget can possibly go up abit I think.
But i wasn't going to use the pentium 4 thats what i was told, adn go for a intel pentium 2 duo core, quad core etc
And the build is a cheap build and will be the fastest pc in my house so im not to bothered tbh, the parts are used and maybe out of date abit but if it works. And is still a good upgrade for my system im not bothered
Well tell me what CPU to get?? i should get for my motherboard then! £0.99-£25
Also tell me What Graphics card i should get??? I want one that has a hdmi port as well Budget £30-£45
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Also does anyone Know what GhZ size i should get and cache size for the CPU??
I have also found a brand new Coolermaster GX-550W PSU it came with his tower.
It's only 20 min drive from me so if i say £25 for buying it, and £10 in juice and it still has the warranty if i register it with cooler master i believe.
I have also found a brand new Coolermaster GX-550W PSU it came with his tower.
It's only 20 min drive from me so if i say £25 for buying it, and £10 in juice
and it still has the warranty if i register it with cooler master i believe.
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It just annoyed me that's all, so I just thought i would explain how ive not got £800 at my disposal for a gaming build.
parts:
Motherboard
cooling fans
parts i need to get:
cpu
psu
graphics card
ram
I have some questions, i don't suppose you know what cpu cooler i have do you from the pics on the 1st page??
Also what cpu Ghz and cache size is good for my spec??
Any lower down and is in budget of £10-£25 probably push to 30'ish
My mother board is -am epu and i checked the list for the correct one and that is on the cpu list on the asus website.
At first glance the cpu cooler looks like a zalman but it says pc cooler 3 and has come japanese or chinese writing near the cooler wording on the fan so im not sure.
It's just some of the white pins have broke the clips that retain the board taking them out. Can you get replacment ones of these pins???
Maybe abit of overclocking if i could get some help with it
How do i find out the revision for the board?? i have??
If you can get a Q6600 for a reasonable price you will be more than happy i assure you
Okey Dokey
His board will support the q6600 and will work straight away, but a BIOS update may be necessary to ensure maximum stability. The PCB revision number should be somewhere on the board, but I cannot glance it from the photos myself. It will suffice to say that it is most definitely not v 1.00 - that had only two SATA ports and had a different component layout. It also didn't support the FSB speed of 1066 Mhz, which Luke's board clearly does!So good news on the CPU front and you should get it if you can, as I mentioned above. If you don't know/not sure on how to flash your BIOS to the latest version, let us know and we can guide you through the steps when you get that far.
The GPU you found is also good on a budget, and it will do more than play your games. The NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB with 112 shaders is also worth considering for around 20-30 quid. There are also better variants in the 8800/9800 line about, so if in doubt, just ask.
Oh, and here are some reliable PSU brands to keep an eye out for: Corsair, Tagan, BeQuiet, Enermax, Seasonic and OCZ; Coolermaster is also serviceable and will do the job just fine, but see if you can do better first, as you did with your PSU choice. It does not hurt to shop around!
If you can get a reputable unit in the 500W - 650W range, which is under or slightly over a year old in terms of use, that would be ideal. Don't hesitate to post any options you may be considering, too.
Finally, never mind the trolls! Haha, unfortunately they are about on these forums, but the ratio of genuine and helpful folk is vastly superior to their number. They don't know what they are talking about, so don't feel like you have to justify yourself to them.
Oh few that's good
yeah i will have alook at psu's and gpu's
Haha yeah but on every forum there about
Yes, my little ramble took a while to post. I saw the update on the board revision and it is fine. It is the latest revision Asus pushed out into retail and will take any CPU on the support list, as Keyser Soze says. No need to upgrade what isn't half bad.
Indeed, trolls and internets dance hand in hand.
Can't wait to get it built
Hopefully i will get the coolermaster 430 elite case this month hopefully Ahh, the halcyon days of LGA 775 and first Pentiums with HT, them were the times.
Go for it! It should do a better job than your present flower design HSF and you could probably manage an overclock with it, too. It will also save you the trouble of hunting for those spare pins.
Haha lol
Yeah it looks a good cpu cooler