Hi,
it's been a long long time since I built my current PC and it's now just too old to keep alive any longer.
I've done some research and have come up with with a shopping list but since it's been a while there are a couple of parts I'm not too familiar with.
This is what I've got so far: -
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) £16.44
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £72.84
Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6300 1.86GHz Retail / Gigabyte 965P DS3 / 1GB GeIL PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle £286.66
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £61.09
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £119.84
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming case £68.14
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £7.04
Sub Total : £537.91
Shipping : £12.95
Vat : £96.40
Total : £647.26
I've got a monitor, DVD writer, keyboard, mouse, Windows XP etc from my current machine so I think that's all I need new. The plan is to do some overclocking to get the most performance for my money and I believe the parts above should allow a fair bit without going to extremes?
Originally I specced 2Gb of the GeIL ram and a 8800GTS but I can't quite justify the cost at the moment so I think the X1950 will do as a stopgap until I can afford to upgrade along with a nice widescreen monitor later in the year unless there is anything better at that price point?.
Now the main questions I had are regarding the case and psu, neither of which I know much about so I just picked the case I liked the look of and the psu pretty much at random from the list. Are there any issues with either of them or better alternatives for a similar price?
Is there anything else that I'll need to get it all up and running, cables and the like?
Thanks very much for any help,
Ross
it's been a long long time since I built my current PC and it's now just too old to keep alive any longer.
I've done some research and have come up with with a shopping list but since it's been a while there are a couple of parts I'm not too familiar with.
This is what I've got so far: -
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) £16.44
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £72.84
Intel Core 2 DUO LGA775 E6300 1.86GHz Retail / Gigabyte 965P DS3 / 1GB GeIL PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Kit - Bundle £286.66
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £61.09
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £119.84
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming case £68.14
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £7.04
Sub Total : £537.91
Shipping : £12.95
Vat : £96.40
Total : £647.26
I've got a monitor, DVD writer, keyboard, mouse, Windows XP etc from my current machine so I think that's all I need new. The plan is to do some overclocking to get the most performance for my money and I believe the parts above should allow a fair bit without going to extremes?
Originally I specced 2Gb of the GeIL ram and a 8800GTS but I can't quite justify the cost at the moment so I think the X1950 will do as a stopgap until I can afford to upgrade along with a nice widescreen monitor later in the year unless there is anything better at that price point?.
Now the main questions I had are regarding the case and psu, neither of which I know much about so I just picked the case I liked the look of and the psu pretty much at random from the list. Are there any issues with either of them or better alternatives for a similar price?
Is there anything else that I'll need to get it all up and running, cables and the like?
Thanks very much for any help,
Ross
