Help with pentium spec

Boycie

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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
 
erm its possible if you get a lowerer spec card ( but by your post it looks like you want a 7900gt so you may need to buge abit on the budget) by pentium do u mean p4 or are u you gonna go c2d witch is the mutch mutch better chip

also are u going to be ocing
 
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
 
well ill post something similar my spec im getting soon and that costs £569.15 inc vat and p+p that has a 7900 gs and a c2d e6300 but seen as you will be not ocing ill post you a spec with a diffrent mo bo witch has sli and seen as i have on my list 6400 ram you can get away with a lowerspeed ram

well i cant find any sli c2d mo bos probly me being stupid :confused: but id go with this then add a mobo when some 1 reccomends you one

Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (£34.06)
Sony DDU-1615 DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM
(£12.34)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
(£112.79)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
(£16.44)
Antec NSK6500 Super Midi Tower Case - 430W PSU
(£69.31)
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)
Sub Total : £381.44
Shipping : £9.95
Vat: £68.49
Total : £459.88



now u need just to ad a skt 775 c2d mobo and youll easly get 100+ fps on css
 
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lol thats exsacly waht im getting insted im getting a ds3 and the giel 6400 but hes says he dosent want to oc carl
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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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
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So am i right in thinking that the 975x based mobos don't support SLi? Do they support the ATI equiv?

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

Thanks
Luke
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Yes, they have xfire support, but i hear about many people running sli anyhow, on hacked drivers... But the asus has full crossfire support... ( dual ati cards)
 
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