Help with pentium spec

Boycie · 27 Nov 2006 at 18:46

Hey Guys,

Being the AMD fan that i am I havent built a pentium based system since 2000 and i'm a little out of shape so i wondered if you could help me with a spec. I require the following:
Motherboard - Must be SLi
Ram - At least 512MB
Processor - Nothing amazing, slightly above averaged prefered.
Graphics card - priority must be a 7900GT or similar

Now budget, i'm looking at around £450 but if you think i'm being a bit stupid, (i'm not really clued up with pentium systems) then as close to that as possible.

Many thanks for the help
Luke

Boycie · 27 Nov 2006 at 18:56

Thanks for your reply, nope there will be no overclocking and it must be that graphics card/equiv or better, a c2d would be a preferred chip and i'm happy to move on budget as little as possible.

Hope that helps

Luke

Boycie · 27 Nov 2006 at 20:04

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
(£112.79)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
(£16.44)
OcUK GeForce 7900 GS 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(£117.49)
Corsair 1GB DDR2 Value Select PC5300 Dual Channel Kit (2x512MB)
(£85.76)

Ok so i've got this so far, now what about a motherboard to go with all this?
Thanks
luke

Boycie · 27 Nov 2006 at 21:01

Ok going with the GeIL but had a look at the DS3 and it doesnt mention anything about SLi?

Thanks for the advice guys

luke

Boycie · 27 Nov 2006 at 23:29

snowdog said:
If overclocking EVGA 680

If not, go for cheapest nforce 4 c2d mobo: p5n-sli p5n32-se sli deluxe, etc...

If not an option all those mobo's get a 975x mobo (like asus p5wdh) and use hacked drivers for SLi

So am i right in thinking that the 975x based mobos don't support SLi? Do they support the ATI equiv?

Thanks
Luke