Good spec?

xplosiv · 4 Apr 2008 at 23:57

Will i have any trouble with this spec or anything worth swapping ?

Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)

Samsung SpinPoint S 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD161HJ)

OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK)

Akasa Ultra Quiet 500W Paxpower Active PFC ATX2.2 PSU - Black Nickel

Total £404.12 inc VAT

have a opitcal drive and other hard drives already

Cheers

Kearney_1988 · 5 Apr 2008 at 00:10

looks fine to me should go together nice

Ben M · 5 Apr 2008 at 00:11

If I were you, I'd spring the extra £12 for an E2200, it'd be worth it.

Kearney_1988 · 5 Apr 2008 at 00:16

man i didnt realise the difference is so little. Well pointed out.

xplosiv · 5 Apr 2008 at 01:54

cool didnt notice that thanks for the heads up

jak731 · 5 Apr 2008 at 01:57

if you plan to keep the card for a very long time, perhaps you could consider paying extra for a longer warranty such as the BFG card in this week only

xplosiv · 5 Apr 2008 at 16:58

got my new system changed the things avised and have just built the system with e2200 and bfg 8800gt but when i turn on the pc the monitor shows no signal at all even on post, its an lg flatron L1915S

checked all the connections, and still no luck anyone got any ideas?

Ogri · 5 Apr 2008 at 17:36

Ok it may be my memory playing up, but isn't there a potential voltage issue with the OCZ memory and P35's (maybe Gigabyte only mobo's, can't really remember).

Anyway when I built mine a couple of months ago, I avoided the OCZ (and I usually buy OCZ) and got the Corsairs instead as they were 0.3 or 0.4 lower as standard voltage.

Someone I'm pretty sure said to boot up with something like Corsair, set the memory voltage in BIOS, then switch off to fit the OCZ's, and that would sort it?

At the time I went for an E2140, and it's running nice at 3.2ghz, so I wouldn't worry too much about the multiplier particularly. Everything I throw at it runs great.

Best of luck putting it all together,

Ogri · 5 Apr 2008 at 17:39

xplosiv said:
got my new system changed the things avised and have just built the system with e2200 and bfg 8800gt but when i turn on the pc the monitor shows no signal at all even on post, its an lg flatron L1915S

checked all the connections, and still no luck anyone got any ideas?

If it's not getting to POST then that screams graphics card.

PSU supplying enough power? Plugged the power lead into the cards power input (if it has one - amazing how often people forget to feed the card, hehe)?

ETA: PS, the only time I had something similar that was different, was a mobo that wasn't compatible with a later stepping CPU. Fans would spin and that was it.

xplosiv · 5 Apr 2008 at 21:02

turns out that one of the memory sticks was slightly out and needed to be pushed in, you couldnt tell as it was only a fraction but now the system works