New PC spec

MagicBoy

MagicBoy

MagicBoy

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The motherboard in my desktop PC has finally croaked after it blew another cap so it's new PC time. It's a single core P4 with AGP, DDR etc so most of the bits are going in the skip. I don't want to spend a fortune - £400ish.

I would like something quiet and unobtrusive that will run reliably for a few years with a bit of upgrade potential eg CPU, graphics in say 18 months time.

Here's my initial shopping list :
Asus P5K-E WiFi Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
OcUK ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express)
Antec EarthWatts 430W PSU

I'll reuse my existing case, IDE hard drives and add a SATA DVD-burner, probably a Pioneer DVR-212D.

How does it look- anything glaringly wrong?
 
Looks pretty good to me. I might get the Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R motherboard for better future-proofing. I'd probably also get the GeIL PC2-6400C4 kit as well since it's a bit better.

An extra £44 gets you a quad, according to the spec I just did. ;)
 
Taa, will look at the Gigabyte. I was probly subconciously avoiding them as the blown on is one of theirs (GA8-IRXP for the history buffs!).

Was steering clear off the Quads for the moment. They're temptingly cheap but I'm put off by 4 cores arguing over a 1066FSB. I'll probly chuck a quad in later when they've gone 1333FSB.
 
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