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dad13

dad13

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Hi all great site. I have purchased from oc quite a few times over the last few years indeed my last pc which I built myself. Ok stop laughing at the back I am an old reprobate of 46....lol.....anyway after my psu has just gone bang and the price of the bl***y things I thought what the hell lets build something a little better for gaming ( COD, flying sims etc ) only use it for surfing and a little bit of invoicing which to be honest I could do with my old laptop..

So heres the deal do I build a new pc for around £550 or update my old one wich ever I do I will proberley keep my case as its fits into the area in my bedroom and looks nice and discrete

I have windows 7 32 bit and excellent it is to having had only one lock up in 8 months of the install and that was because of my HTC HD2....Had to be windows didn't it.

I have the 64 bit edition as well and would like to install it but would COD work ok on it...

Spec is P5T mobo dual core 6600 processor 8800GTS 750mb-something or other 3GB Kingston DDR2 800 3 X SATA Western Digital 320gb HD's...N wifi usb stick etc

will keep mouse, keyboard, LCD screen, wifi, etc

Looking at replacing Mobo, processor, Ram, PSU & Graphics card...

If I can get a system for the price the hey who am I to argue....lol

Mods fellow peep & friends any ideas......lost my mobo instruction book so dont know what it supports processor wise or indeed ram or memory....

Regards Lee ( aka Dad13 )
 
Thanks guys will mull this over. Spoke to Phil at OC and he suggested these what do you think..

Palit GeForce GTX 460 Sonic 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £176.24
OCZ StealthXstream 2 600 PSU £46.80
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHZ ( Clarkdale ( Socket LGA1156 ) £72.33
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £69.99
Gygabyte GA-H55M-S2 Intel H55 ( Socket 1156 ) DDR3 mobo £51.91

That little lot comes to a total of = £459.45.....So any ideas or reasons to be cheerful or skeptical?

I don't know to much about SSD other than they are quicker but they seem to be a lot smaller in size for the money....do they store thing differently to allow the same stuff to be stored ie compression?
 
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Come on guys hand bags away ;)

I think you are both right in your assumptions about me in this particular case as I have taken some stuff as gospel ie the PSU and others I have been looking more into.....I just have to get this right as I dont have money to burn, do any of us?.......

Anyway heres the other option which I am still thinking about and will call OC to see what they suggest as well as I am more than happy to give them my custom.

I made a mistake and have now found the box for my present MB and it is a ASUS P5Q Pro ( which I brought because I was going to start OClocking ) but never did.... its supports DDR2 upto 1200mhz and is a LGA 775 core 2 1600FSB

I was thinking perhaps 4 GB of faster memory as I only have 800mhz at the moment...the best dual core I can buy and possibly doubling up on the 8800GTS as the board supports crossfire........as for any extra hardware that I will be using 2 x Sata 1 320 Western HD......and a couple of old IDE CDRW's
onboard sound Soundblaster 16 bit & just your basic wifi usb and mouse usb.

could possibly stretch to a small SSD to put games on..

Jeez far to many decisions..... :confused:

Many many thanks for your input.....

Regards Lee

PS in an ideal world a single Graphics card would be nice
 
Once again more options :eek:

I did post that the mobo was Xfire supported as I went to the Asus website.

I was not aware that you had to have a cpu that had SLI enabled I thought that was done through software or through the bios.....( see learning all the time who said us old folk are thick ) ok my wife does :D

Ok just had another look at the Asus site ATI hold the xfire rites h'mm perhaps I dont understand after all.... :(

As for buying RAM, at the moment the pc has 2 x gb sticks of matched Patriot 6400LS 800MHZ = 4GB... there is room for another 2 x sticks... the board is not DDR3 compatible ( I did think it had Kingston but that is in my old pc that the family use )

Would I need to have identical memory as in manufacturer or is that only for over clocking?

Heres the link tell me what you can on my options on this board

http://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=qH6ZSEJ8EPY6HoNU

Thought I would check out all my options for this at the moment because my Virgin land line has gone down so can't call OC and nobody has got back to me via email to answer, proberley you lot buying all them top end systems :D

"O forgot to say why I was cleaning my case out I thought I would clean everything with a low psi airline that I use for painting and clean all the connections........WHOOPS pc now boots up :o ..............Shhhhhhhhh dont tell the mrs I am still upgrading :D
 
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