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rossmc

rossmc

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It's been a while since I built a PC so I've become a bit out of touch with motherboards, etc. I'm currently running an AMD 3200+, 1gb DDR, Radeon X600, 200gb IDE.

I'm looking to run something as quick as I can get for around £800. I mainly use my machine for browsing, some audio work, very occasional game so not overly fussed about graphics. I am looking to run MS Virtual Server on my new machine however to run some Virtual Machines, so lots of RAM!

I also run Vista Business.

What would you say to the following:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC6400 Dual Channel
Geforce 8600GT 256mb
WD Raptor 150GB 10krpm
Seagate 500GB SataII 7200rpm
NEC Sata DVDRW
Antec Sonata III /w 500 PSU


I have gone for the Sonata as I want the machine to be as quiet as possible for the performance!

Any suggestions on improvements or "don't do its"? :)

Thanks!
 
just had a look at asus webby about tat motheboard in one part it sasi no quadcore in other part sais quadcore ready sooo i would iagine that its a bios thing which means when you get that board you may need to update the bios to get it to run your quad core cpu you selected.

the hard drive is very over the top for wha you want they are nice but for what you intend to use your pc for i think a diff hard drive would be better. and save you some money the new western digi aaks series drives are awesome and have performance wich is equal to raptors in most catagories yet are bigger and quieter (raptors can be noisy and you did say you want quiet) and cheaper.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=hd-120-wd&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940

500gb £69
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=hd-144-wd&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940

750gb £130

remember its onlythe aaks series, article about e 750gb version here
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/record-making-hard-disk-uk,review-2343.html
 
Thanks, any idea if the P5K Asus is "quad ready"? Or I'm hearing good things about Gigabyte boards??
 
Its a shame "thefishdude"'s typing is so dodgy, because thats pretty good advice.

If your looking for a faster read/write speed on your hard drive's you may consider getting 2 identical hard drives are try running them in RAID 0 for performance or 1 for security.

Id definately be going for a p35 board at the moment too, this looks pretty good value at the moment, oh by the looks of it thats what were looking at :p
As far as i know every p35 board is quad ready, im not aware of any acceptions.
 
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OK what about that?

You have said don't go with 10krpm disks, fair enough they might be a bit noisier but I'd be willing to put up with that for performance?

Anyone know how noisy the 120mm fan and Tuniq combo will be?

Thanks
 
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