My Rig (help for planning)

ash_scotland88 · 7 Jul 2007 at 16:35

Well this is a long the lines of the thing that i want. I will be ordering august, if you remember. I'm spending more than I want but but i feel that it needs to be done for what i want.

BFG stuff cause of the life long warranty (willing to go down to 5years as it'll hopefully be replaced by then *looks at current 5year old machine) so suggestions for other stuff for that. I know about the core2duo price cuts.

Motherboard I recon i could save atleast £50 on, I dont think I'll go SLI and I doubt i would heavy overclock if at all, all that i would want is wireless network (cant remember if the board i chose has it) but I can allways get a separte slot in card for that. reason for wirless is that i will be getting a laptop from uni (i dont chose it) and i want to keep a computer for personal use rather than slowing down the laptop with all my crap.

PSu was chosen by looking at someone spec listed on here.

Speakers need to be bought, and i think keyboard and mouse will be bought from a store so I can test comfort etc.

Final thing that might changed is the graphic card and as I dont think I really need to spend that much.

http://s151.photobucket.com/albums/s143/ash_scotland/?action=view&current=computer.jpg

muchos grassyarse for replies

Sinny · 7 Jul 2007 at 17:50

That looks fine to me, but are you going to be getting SLI?

because if you are not planning on adding another GTX then i would get a p35 chipset motherboard.

BAMBI · 7 Jul 2007 at 18:21

If you are not planning to overclock much then there is no need to spend so much on a motherboard.

Also the PSU is great but you could easily go for the 520W corsair model.

ash_scotland88 · 7 Jul 2007 at 20:13

what p35 would you recomend? AS said would prefer something with warranty, and are there such power supplies that provide warranties for the whole computer? You know a warranty against power surges?

Nebzor · 7 Jul 2007 at 20:40

ash_scotland88 said:
what p35 would you recomend? AS said would prefer something with warranty, and are there such power supplies that provide warranties for the whole computer? You know a warranty against power surges?

No.

Sinny · 7 Jul 2007 at 20:58

Your best bet is to buy a Power Extension cord that will protect your computer against power surges, most of them like Belkin i think cover the costs of anything attatched by about £5k probably more.

Their isnt sucha powersupply as it would cost companies a lot because power supplys go bang all the time.

you best bet is to get a very good power supply, i recommend a Corair model as their renound for being more than stable.

also i would Recommend the Gigabyte DS3r