New PC? Spec check?

sastusbulbas

sastusbulbas

sastusbulbas

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Hi all,

I was thinking of putting together a PC to replace my ageing relic. And was wondering if this seems OK or overkill for my needs?

I want something quiet, which I can eventually use for Blueray rentals and movies, music, and games such as C&C 3 and Red Alert 3. Adding a Blueray drive and more HD space later.

I am thinking of,

Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AMD 780G Micro-ATX Motherboard
AMD Phenom X4 Quad Core 9150e 1.80GHz (Socket AM2+)
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB)

Maybe getting a new 320gig Samsung Hard drive for the OS?
Or should I be looking at either the 1tb Samsungs or Western Digital "Green" drives?

Is the processor and Memory overkill? What about the AMD Dual core 7750 or Phenom quad core 9950 black editions?

And would I be able to get high settings with the above games and the onboard graphics?

Cheers,
Steve
 
what you have is fine, 4gigs of ram is the "norm" these days

just need to know what os you are going to be using.? what are the other parts you have just now.? hdd etc

and you cant really go wrong with a samsung F1 of WD range :)

but your getting no where with the onboard graphics with HD movies let along blu-ray mate, you would really need a nice graphics card for that :)
 
What about adding an ATI 4850 later?

Or would I be better off with cheaper memory and the Dual core 7750 processor anyway?

I am thinking of it as a quiet do it all media PC foremost, with use as a media centre in a second system later if need be, instead of buying an Asrock AGP mobo and Intel processor for my ageing HIS IceQ 3850 AGP card and 2 gig of XMS PC3500. I am under the impression that I will get better Blueray playback from the Gigabyte's on board Graphics?

I am open to ideas and suggestions?

Steve
 
right best bet mate, tell us what you have (hardware, OS, monitor etc) your keeping and going to use, and what budget you have for the new hardware and we can take it from there to best suit your needs :)
 
I am using,

Gigabyte case,
Hiper 550w modular PSU.
Gigabyte RZ 7VM400AM motherboard.
AMD Sempron 3300 2.2 processor.
Corsair XMS Pro 2G PC3500 memory.
HIS IceQ 3850 512 AGP graphics card.
Hitachi Deskstar 250 gig IDE drive.
M-Audio 24/96 soundcard.
Samsung SyncMaster 2032BW monitor.
Lite On DVD/CD IDE drive.

Edit,

I was thinking of a budget of up to £300 for a motherboard, processor and memory. With a 320 gig Samsung Sata drive for the OS, which would be the Windows 7 Beta. but I am not sure if I will move from 32bit to 64. I was thinking of selling the old bits to fund other components such as a graphics card and blueray drive later.

The computers main use is music, internet, and the most demanding games are the afore mentioned C&C titles. If I can play those games on high settings and get smooth playback from rented Blueray movies I will probably be more than happy.
 
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sastusbulbas said:
I am using,

Gigabyte case,
Hiper 550w modular PSU.
Gigabyte RZ 7VM400AM motherboard.
AMD Sempron 3300 2.2 processor.
Corsair XMS Pro 2G PC3500 memory.
HIS IceQ 3850 512 AGP graphics card.
Hitachi Deskstar 250 gig IDE drive.
M-Audio 24/96 soundcard.
Samsung SyncMaster 2032BW monitor.
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right so what is your upgrade budget.? and what operating system are you going to be using to play HD/Blu-ray.?
 
Starting at around £300 for the Mobo/processor/memory, will be playing with Windows Beta of 7, will add a Blueray drive later, probably use Power-DVD or such for playback, or Vista?

As I said, I was under the impression that the Gigabyte mobo I specced above with the processor specced would allow smooth Blueray playback from its on board graphics?

I guess I was thinking that if I built a Blueray media capable PC it would get me by, if I had to add a graphics card I could re-use that and the memory later for a more gaming suitable build and be left with a decent HTPC?
 
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