Hi,
We're upgrading my brothers gaming PC at the moment. He's getting the E6750, 8800 GT and TT Tsunami case from my PC since I'm upgrading, so he mainly needs a motherboard, hard-drive and PSU.
We don't want any fancy stuff like SLI/XFire, or onboard video. We do want an intel chipset. We probably won't be overclocking. I'm thinking to save money we should go with a P35 board, unless there's maybe some advantage to P43/45? Anyway can someone recommend a nice straight forward board that's a decent performer and is pretty cheap.
Hard-drive we've been looking at the Samsung F1s, but I dunno if the 750GB is as quick as their 320GB which everyone is buying. We usually buy WD but the Samsungs are cheap and seemingly good performers. Any reason not to get the F1 750GB?
PSU wise we're looking at 450-500W, don't need more. Looking to spend the minimum but don't want some cheap Q-Tec equivalent that's going to go pop. Don't want something with weak 12V rails. Anything we should avoid here - OcUK, Hiper ones ok? Also for a P35 board do we need either ATX 2.0 or ATX 2.2 PSU?
Cheers for any and all help
Simon.
We're upgrading my brothers gaming PC at the moment. He's getting the E6750, 8800 GT and TT Tsunami case from my PC since I'm upgrading, so he mainly needs a motherboard, hard-drive and PSU.
We don't want any fancy stuff like SLI/XFire, or onboard video. We do want an intel chipset. We probably won't be overclocking. I'm thinking to save money we should go with a P35 board, unless there's maybe some advantage to P43/45? Anyway can someone recommend a nice straight forward board that's a decent performer and is pretty cheap.
Hard-drive we've been looking at the Samsung F1s, but I dunno if the 750GB is as quick as their 320GB which everyone is buying. We usually buy WD but the Samsungs are cheap and seemingly good performers. Any reason not to get the F1 750GB?
PSU wise we're looking at 450-500W, don't need more. Looking to spend the minimum but don't want some cheap Q-Tec equivalent that's going to go pop. Don't want something with weak 12V rails. Anything we should avoid here - OcUK, Hiper ones ok? Also for a P35 board do we need either ATX 2.0 or ATX 2.2 PSU?
Cheers for any and all help
Simon.