new spec - comments please

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I am starting from scratch again. budget approx £450. Comments on this spec greatly appreciated

MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
MY-059-CS Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x512MB) (MY-059-CS)
£59.95 £59.95
GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG)
£67.95 £67.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£44.95 £44.95
HD-095-WD Western Digital Raptor 36GB WD360ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-095-WD)
£68.50 £68.50
Subtotal £371.25
VAT £64.97
Total £436.22

will be used for general use - programming, graphics, web and perhaps a bit of low level gaming

need to add a quiet silver dvd writer - though choice seems limited is lightscribe worth getting?

will also be adding large data HDD's prob samsung spin point - though not in this budget
 
Get rid of the raptor for a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB


CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM) 1
£59.95 £59.95
MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS) 1
£69.95 £69.95
MY-059-CS Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x512MB) (MY-059-CS) 1
£59.95 £59.95
GX-080-LT Leadtek GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-080-LT) 1
£111.95 £111.95
HD-079-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-079-SE) 1
£52.50 £52.50
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS) 1
£44.95 £44.95
Subtotal £399.25
VAT £69.87
Total £469.12

You could wait for the BFG 3D Fuzion 7600GT to come back into stock as they're cheaper.
 
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fenderbass86 said:
Get rid of the raptor for one of these:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Price: £52.50 (£61.69 Including VAT at 17.5%)
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reasons why would be useful....


on reading hdd thread's i thought common practice was to stick OS and programs on raptor for speed and data on other drives.
 
other requirements for the machine - must be stable and reliable.

I am also likely to to be doing some major GIS work using arcGIS. ANy one had any experience of this and hardware requirements?
 
metrophage said:
other requirements for the machine - must be stable and reliable.

I am also likely to to be doing some major GIS work using arcGIS. ANy one had any experience of this and hardware requirements?
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Being an arcMap user I would REALLY consider upping your RAM to 2Gb mate

Stelly
 
fenderbass86 said:
Or, just get a 40/80GB for windows (which is what i'm doing) and get a larger one with a bigger cache for storage. The Raptors aren't worth it.
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Thats the same as i have done and it has worked great. I took the old IDE 80Gb maxtor out of my DELL pc and used it for the OS and system. Then bought a Seagate Barracuda 300gb, think it has 16mb cache and NCQ and its realyl good for the music and games
 
PyroboyUK said:
Thats the same as i have done and it has worked great. I took the old IDE 80Gb maxtor out of my DELL pc and used it for the OS and system. Then bought a Seagate Barracuda 300gb, think it has 16mb cache and NCQ and its realyl good for the music and games
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you might wanna put your virtual memory on the Seagate mate.... will run windows faster...

Stelly
 
There is a lot of praise for the Seagate 7200.10's, I don't really know why but they seem to be THE hard drive at the moment. Noise wise I think they're pretty much both the same.
 
updated spec

MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG)
£67.95 £67.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£44.95 £44.95
MY-095-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-095-CS)
£111.95 £111.95
HD-051-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-051-SE)
£29.50 £29.50
Subtotal £384.25
VAT £67.25
Total £451.50


have kept the graphics card at low spec - as my gaming requirements are low, and have increased ram to 2 gig - have swapped raptor to 80g barracuda with larger data storage drives to be added at a later date.

hows this all looking? I am presuming there are no major problems ith mobo/cpu/mem as no one has commented on those yet?
 
metrophage said:
updated spec

MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG)
£67.95 £67.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£44.95 £44.95
MY-095-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-095-CS)
£111.95 £111.95
HD-051-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 80GB ST3808110AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-051-SE)
£29.50 £29.50
Subtotal £384.25
VAT £67.25
Total £451.50


have kept the graphics card at low spec - as my gaming requirements are low, and have increased ram to 2 gig - have swapped raptor to 80g barracuda with larger data storage drives to be added at a later date.

hows this all looking? I am presuming there are no major problems ith mobo/cpu/mem as no one has commented on those yet?
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Don't worry about the graphics card unless you are running spatial 3d... I'm running arcMap on a X600SE... so looks fine to me mate

Stelly
 
metrophage said:
how do the barracuda compare to samsung - particularly regards noise?
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I'm not sure about Samsung, but I can put in a good word for them Seagate 7200.10s. Perpendicular technology = vertically stored bits which means higher density per platter. Combine that with an unprecedented 5 year warranty and the .10 is a winner.

http://www.seagate.com/pdf/marketing/po_barracuda_7200_10.pdf

p.s. the 7200.9s are not as good as the new .10 drives.
 
metrophage said:
{snip}hows this all looking? I am presuming there are no major problems ith mobo/cpu/mem as no one has commented on those yet?
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Can't stretch for a 7200.10? Changing mobo could help, e.g if not very keen on gaming drop the GFX & go for the Asus M2NPV-VM Micro ATX (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-144-AS) £54.95 which has excellent Geforce6 onboard graphics. If not that, then keep GFX (7600GS) & get the MSI K9N Neo-F nForce 550 (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-071-MS) £49.95 :cool:
 
ok have updated the drive so...what do we think? - oh and thanks for all your comments so far

MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG)
£67.95 £67.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£44.95 £44.95
MY-095-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-095-CS)
£111.95 £111.95
HD-079-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-079-SE)
£52.50 £52.50
Subtotal £407.25
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.95
VAT £72.84
Total £489.04
 
metrophage said:
ok have updated the drive so...what do we think? - oh and thanks for all your comments so far

MB-147-AS Asus M2N-E (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-147-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
CP-163-AM AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz (Socket AM2) - Retail (CP-163-AM)
£59.95 £59.95
GX-026-BG BFG 3DFuzion GeForce 7600 GS 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-026-BG)
£67.95 £67.95
CA-000-SS Seasonic S12 430W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply (CA-000-SS)
£44.95 £44.95
MY-095-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-095-CS)
£111.95 £111.95
HD-079-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-079-SE)
£52.50 £52.50
Subtotal £407.25
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £8.95
VAT £72.84
Total £489.04
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Go for it mate that would easy run any GIS package you throw at it

Stelly
 
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