First Pc build

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C2D E6300 £124.42
ASUS P5B Deluxe £128.53 Inc VAT or DS4 £109.22 Inc VAT ??
Antec P180 w/o PSU £95.00 Inc VAT
1Gb CorsairXMS2, DDR2 PC6400 (800) £94.56 Inc VAT (will get another one later on)
520W Corsair HX Series Modular PSU £75.19 Inc VAT
256MB Asus Radeon X1950Pro £133.94 Inc VAT
Western Digital Raptor 74GB £108.09 inc VAT

What do you guys reckon, will be using it for downloading bits off net, burning cds, watching dvds playing the odd game or two.

Also would like to have ago at overclocking.

You reckon this set-up is ok anything I could improve on or dont need?

thanx a lot

Ashley
 
If you want to overclock that E6300 go with a DS3 or DS4 and get a good after market cooler from Arctic Cooling, Scythe, Tuniq
 
Drop the raptor and go for a 250GB Seagate 7200.10

It will cost you less, you will have more than twice the capacity and the Seagate is very, very quick. Not as quick as the Raptor, but who cares when you have a larger, cheaper HDD.

SiriusB
 
SiriusB said:
Drop the raptor and go for a 250GB Seagate 7200.10

It will cost you less, you will have more than twice the capacity and the Seagate is very, very quick. Not as quick as the Raptor, but who cares when you have a larger, cheaper HDD.

SiriusB


Indeed, Ive stated the above in two other threads today, missed the opportunity 3rd tiome round :p
 
So apart from going with the ds4 and changing the harddrive to the Seagate everying else is ok for what I want to do.

thanx for quick reply and Info :)
 
Should be more than enough. My 4 year old PC would be more than enough for you, so I should think a C2D rig will be :D

I hope you plan to play more than just 1 or 2 games with that graphics card though ;)

SiriusB
 
Ye I will play more than 2 games lol :p .

Coming from this at the moment : 6 years old

OS Name Microsoft Windows
Version 4.90.3000 Build 3000
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name OEMCOMPUTER
System Manufacturer Advent
System Model 3000
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz GenuineIntel ~1994 Mhz
BIOS Version HV84510A.86A.0018.P04.0107302001
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
Locale United Kingdom
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 511.26 MB
Available Physical Memory 360.00 KB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.30 GB
Page File Space 1.50 GB

which sucks and almost guranteed to crash every few hours two the new build should be fun :D .
 
classyash said:
Ye I will play more than 2 games lol :p .

Coming from this at the moment : 6 years old

OS Name Microsoft Windows
Version 4.90.3000 Build 3000
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name OEMCOMPUTER
System Manufacturer Advent
System Model 3000
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz GenuineIntel ~1994 Mhz
BIOS Version HV84510A.86A.0018.P04.0107302001
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
Locale United Kingdom
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 511.26 MB
Available Physical Memory 360.00 KB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.30 GB
Page File Space 1.50 GB

which sucks and almost guranteed to crash every few hours two the new build should be fun :D .

Things should now go in fast foward for you with your new build.
 
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