First time help

[rushy3000]

Hi guys I've spent some time reading these forums and have decided to try and build my first PC.

I've been using a mac for a while but am looking to build a decent gaming rig for around the £650 mark. As im tired of playing TF2 on lowish settings and still struggling to get above 20fps when theres lots happening on screen.

So far the parts ive picked out are:

CPU- AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 810 2.6GHz, which I may overclock
Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3
Ram- Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz)
Power supply- Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant
GPU- XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 XT 1024MB
Case- Antec 902
HDD- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound.
OS- Windows xp(which i alread have) till windows 7 come out
dvd drive- Phillips dvd dual layer burner

I think that all these parts are compatable with each other, but am still looking for advise just incase. So if anyone one with experiance of building rigs could give them a quick look, i'd appriacite it.

Is there anything that you think should be changed out? Or any basic mistakes that i've made? Or any advice that you can offer to a first time builder.

Cheers everyone

 

[Alex74]

CPU- AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 810 2.6GHz, which I may overclock
Motherboard- Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P (Socket AM3) PCI-Express DDR3
Ram- Patriot Viper 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600MHz)
Power supply- Corsair TX 650W ATX SLi Compliant
GPU- XFX ATI Radeon HD 4890 XT 1024MB
Case- Antec 902
HDD- Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound.
OS- Windows xp(which i alread have) till windows 7 come out
dvd drive- Phillips dvd dual layer burner

You wont be able to run this in triple channel with an AMD platform, IIRC the motherboards dont support it yet. There are still some sweet dual channel options to consider, or if you're intent on triple channel RAM, stick with Intel

EDIT: Oh, and welcome to the forums

 

[cmndr_andi]

Generally a cool spec, couple of changes I would suggest though.

- Change the CPU for an X3 720BE, it will be faster in games and easier to overclock.

- That RAM is designed for Triple channel systems such as the Intel i7. This AM3 system will need two stick of dual channel memory to run at full speed such as this.

- This DVD drive is the fastest and best at the moment.

-If you want to overclock in the future, a cooler like this would be a good investment. You can overclock a bit on the stock cooler, but heat will soon become a problem.

Everything else looks great, should be a rapid gaming rig. What monitor are you going to be using with it?

 

[RJC]

Not sure on the cpu 810 cpu, how that compares with the tripple core 720 which has more cache memory and has a unlocked multiplier to make overclocking easy.

You have chosen tripple channel memory which would work but will only run in single channel have a look here for dual channel.

 

[rushy3000]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly, on you guys advise i'm going to switch the cpu to the AMD Phenom II X3 Tri Core 720 Black Edition 2.8GHz and will switch out the ram to OCZ Platinum 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C7 1333MHz Dual Channel.

For the monitor i've picked the Samsung SM2333SW 23" Widescreen LCD Monitor which looks good for the price.

I should be ordering the parts in the next few days and will hopefully have the weekend to put it all together, I'll post and let you guys know how everything went.

Thanks a lot for your help.

 

[cmndr_andi]

Good stuff.

As for monitor, you should give this monitor (Dell 2209WA) some serious consideration. Just do a quick search for it on these forums and see what people say about it (hint: it's awesome).