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Hello, cool site from what ive seen of it, not many computer sites have dedicated forums, so quite handy..
ive never looked into the whole overclock al deal as i dont want to risk mucking things up, mean ive looked in the bio on my laptop which is in my sig and i couldnt overclock the CPU anyways, but otherwise ive not tried it with any other computer, so at the moment in time its not of a concern for any builds..
So anyways onto my build, its for my missus not myself as i was going to build myself one before, but then i got this laptop which is good enough for now and its a long overdue birthday present lol
.. i did buy her a full system months ago for 30 quid which shes happy with so far, its an Ideq N1 with the following spec:
Biostar Motherboard Model ???
Mobile AMD Sempron 3300+ CPU 2.??ghz
1.25gb pc3200 Ram(recently upped from 768 pc2700/3200 it came with)
Nvidia 8500GT GPU
250gb HDD
Multi Card Reader(though recently removed)
220w Power Supply
Pci 2 port Usb Adaptor
Windows Vista HP SP1
think thats about it for specs.. its a good cool little computer, missus been pleased with it, more so now i upped the Ram to speed it up abit, its out first experience with AMD and this type of setup and we both like it, but im undecided what im going to do next as this stuff interests me(not so much her) and i just want to play around trying things out and at the same time giving the missus something good to use, so im thinking whether to carry on upgrading the N1 with either a 2nd HDD(IDE not SATA) or one big SATA and maxing the Ram at its limit of 2gb at the same time installing windows 7 or either buy another working computer thats bigger and has more options to upgrade or start completely from scratch and bit by bit do my first build.
Okay enough rambling, heres what ive come up with so far using this site alone(where i purchase is undecided right now)..
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-314-OK&groupid=43&catid=2385&subcat=2213
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-322-AM&groupid=701&catid=1967&subcat=803
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-118-GL
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-090-LG&tool=3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-114-LG&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=314 ?????
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-056-BQ ?????
(i dont know how people link withwout full link)
Upon reading the motherboard specs the onboard graphics sounds really good most likely more than good enough and i guess the 500w supply included would be good enough hence not linking any alternatives.. having a ps3 i doubt the bluray optical would get used for that, i was only thinking for the feature on the motherboard and as for the monitor i just chose the cheapest decent one i liked, like i said in the title nothing set in stone..
i havent listed a HDD as the board im looking at supports sata2 and none of the drives ive seen on here seem to support anything other than sata 3 with 6gb speeds, but for the end result its be looking at atleast 2, a small 40gb or so for windows 7 64bit and something like a 500gb plus for everything else...
the use from the computer isnt big, mean its on all the time, so ideally need it to be quiet and cool, but what she uses it for is facebook and dj streaming site amongst ebay and other searching, she also likes her pictures and has a 8 quid photo programme to edit them lol, but its mostly facebook and the games and the dj site, untill i upped the ram she couldnt play a farm game lol, so even the N1 is good for this that bit more now, but not really a system to see her into the next few years..
oh yeah forgot to mention, the one game she would like to play is Sims, i used to have them, i even had 3 on my laptop(only compatible one), but doing a 'can you run it' on her comp, its not quite upto scratch for 2 & 3(1 wasnt in the list), so need the ability to play that..
i havent totalled anything up from my findings, but before i specced one for upto £200 and ideally want to keep to that same plan, as this is bit by bit(likely monthly) the price could go up very slightly.
lot to read, but thanks for reading heh..
ive never looked into the whole overclock al deal as i dont want to risk mucking things up, mean ive looked in the bio on my laptop which is in my sig and i couldnt overclock the CPU anyways, but otherwise ive not tried it with any other computer, so at the moment in time its not of a concern for any builds..
So anyways onto my build, its for my missus not myself as i was going to build myself one before, but then i got this laptop which is good enough for now and its a long overdue birthday present lol
.. i did buy her a full system months ago for 30 quid which shes happy with so far, its an Ideq N1 with the following spec:Biostar Motherboard Model ???
Mobile AMD Sempron 3300+ CPU 2.??ghz
1.25gb pc3200 Ram(recently upped from 768 pc2700/3200 it came with)
Nvidia 8500GT GPU
250gb HDD
Multi Card Reader(though recently removed)
220w Power Supply
Pci 2 port Usb Adaptor
Windows Vista HP SP1
think thats about it for specs.. its a good cool little computer, missus been pleased with it, more so now i upped the Ram to speed it up abit, its out first experience with AMD and this type of setup and we both like it, but im undecided what im going to do next as this stuff interests me(not so much her) and i just want to play around trying things out and at the same time giving the missus something good to use, so im thinking whether to carry on upgrading the N1 with either a 2nd HDD(IDE not SATA) or one big SATA and maxing the Ram at its limit of 2gb at the same time installing windows 7 or either buy another working computer thats bigger and has more options to upgrade or start completely from scratch and bit by bit do my first build.
Okay enough rambling, heres what ive come up with so far using this site alone(where i purchase is undecided right now)..
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-314-OK&groupid=43&catid=2385&subcat=2213
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-322-AM&groupid=701&catid=1967&subcat=803
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-118-GL
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-090-LG&tool=3
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-114-LG&groupid=701&catid=10&subcat=314 ?????
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-056-BQ ?????
(i dont know how people link withwout full link)
Upon reading the motherboard specs the onboard graphics sounds really good most likely more than good enough and i guess the 500w supply included would be good enough hence not linking any alternatives.. having a ps3 i doubt the bluray optical would get used for that, i was only thinking for the feature on the motherboard and as for the monitor i just chose the cheapest decent one i liked, like i said in the title nothing set in stone..
i havent listed a HDD as the board im looking at supports sata2 and none of the drives ive seen on here seem to support anything other than sata 3 with 6gb speeds, but for the end result its be looking at atleast 2, a small 40gb or so for windows 7 64bit and something like a 500gb plus for everything else...
the use from the computer isnt big, mean its on all the time, so ideally need it to be quiet and cool, but what she uses it for is facebook and dj streaming site amongst ebay and other searching, she also likes her pictures and has a 8 quid photo programme to edit them lol, but its mostly facebook and the games and the dj site, untill i upped the ram she couldnt play a farm game lol, so even the N1 is good for this that bit more now, but not really a system to see her into the next few years..
oh yeah forgot to mention, the one game she would like to play is Sims, i used to have them, i even had 3 on my laptop(only compatible one), but doing a 'can you run it' on her comp, its not quite upto scratch for 2 & 3(1 wasnt in the list), so need the ability to play that..
i havent totalled anything up from my findings, but before i specced one for upto £200 and ideally want to keep to that same plan, as this is bit by bit(likely monthly) the price could go up very slightly.
lot to read, but thanks for reading heh..
