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Leezy

Leezy

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Hi, first time poster here (generally not that good with PC's) but here goes...

My PC decided to fry itself well the motherboard did, anyway it was given to my by a friend so i didnt know much about the details of hardware of it all i know is that it had:

Intel Pentium 4 2.4Ghz
VIA mobo (too old to find any info on it)
nVidia Geforce MX (440 i think, fan didnt work)
80gb hard drive
2 basic drives and a network card ect.

So when it blew i new that it would be outdated to find a replacement mobo, so i decided i would build my own.
A nice brew and an hour later n i found things that intrested me.

The value bundle: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+ 2.80GHz Retail / Foxconn C51XEM2AA / 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle

and an Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case which comes with a 380 watt PSU.

firstly would the PSU supplied with the case be enough for the bundle or would it need to be more than the 380watt?

Secondly would i need to get a new hard drive as the current one has all my recent documents work and music etc so losing that wouldnt be too nice.

and also i have a samsung drive unused so if everything went to plan above i would install this aswell..

thats it really, hope i havent bored you :p

cheers.
 
Yeah I cant see why it wouldn't power that. However it depends what graphics card your putting in to it, a 8800 card for example might be too powerful for that PSU. You dont need a new HDD, however you cant just plug it in and expect windows to work fine. You will need to format so I hope you have a partition with all your stuff backed up on one of them?
 
hi and thanks for the quick reply..

i wouldnt have a powerful graphics card just something cheap perhaps you could recommend?

and about the hard drive part i dont realy understand by formating im guessing you mean wipe/clean but i didnt do any back ups because of the sudden crash.

thanks
 
welcome to the forums.

a new format will wipe the drive of all your information =(

is there a reason why you decided to go with AMD over intel?
 
erm to be honest not at all its just the prices for the AMD's seem fairly low for the bundles.. but thats me only looking at the bundles because i wouldnt no what would be compatible so the bundles looked the safest option.

thanks
 
just pieced this together:

Intel Core 2 Duo E2140 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.60GHz (800FSB) - Retail £35.99
(£42.29) £35.99
(£42.29)
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB) £32.99
(£38.76) £32.99
(£38.76)
Sub Total : £138.97
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £25.76
Total : £172.98

now if you ask me, that's better, and costs slightly less

there are people on here that know far more than I do though, but if it was my money I'd look at that over the AMD.
 
it looks good but for the small price difference the clockspeeds differ dramatically in the descriptions what are the speed comparisons atm?
 
that intel is an easy clock to 3ghz from what i've heard, especially with a good mobo (that mobo is pretty good)

i don't know how good that AMD is, but that intel is popular, and is an easy overclock (an hour or so job) to around 3ghz if i'm right.

it's worth posting in the processor forum to ask which is better though.
 
ok thanks all i need now is to know if theres any chance of me keeping all the information on my HDD and having it, if i get a new build as i think most are sata n all that n my optical drives and HDD are IDE
 
because that motherboard has sata connections and my current drives and HDD are IDE, so is their any chance of me using them?
 
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