Oh My. Another One

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Hello - I'm afraid it's yet another one.

If someone would be kind enough to confirm whether everything is compatiable or not - I would be very appreciative.

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI) - £109.95

CPU: Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN) - £214.95

CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Big Typhoon 4 in 1 Heatpipe (Socket 939/754/775/478) CPU Cooler (CL-P0114) (HS-007-TT) - £24.95

Memory (RAM): G.Skill 2GB DDR2 NR PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBNR) (MY-014-GS) - £114.95

Graphics Card: Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3056) (GX-047-CO) - £199.95

Case: Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-054-LL) - £48.95

Case Acc. Lian-Li PC-60/PC-7 Window Side Panel - Black (CA-063-LL) - £18.95

Storage: Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-087-WD) - £98.95

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-078-SE) - £62.95

Optical: Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) (CD-078-SA) - £20.95

Optical: Sony CRX320EE CDRW/DVD Combi Drive (Black) - OEM (CD-025-SO) - £16.95

Other: Thermaltake Hardcano 13 (BB-000-TT) - £29.95

Software: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS) - £51.95

Compound: Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC) - £5.50

VAT: (wouldn't systems be so much sweeter without it) £178.48

Total: £1,198.33

Plus P&P

*A few things may be subject to change, but nothing major.

I've got the rest of the goodies, PSU and so on.

Thanks.
 
It looks good to me. What's the PSU you aready have? X1900s are hungry for power.

You might wish to toss the Raptor for another Seagate as those perpendicular recording HDDs are looking to be nearly as fast and are a much better value.
 
Everything is compatible there as far as I can see. I'd suggest changing the DVD/CDRW combo drive for another DVDRW as it costs barely anything more but does offer more options, other than that I can't see anything obvious I'd change.
 
Cheers for the advice.

BTI, I have a Hiper 480 WATT PSU - See Manufacturer's Page

I have been landed with it from a few months ago and I was hoping it would be enough - but when I recently changed (tonight) the graphics card from 256mb to 512mb - I never really took what you said, into consideration.

I'm no expert on power supplies - but I imagine it would sort of teetering on ok-ish?

If so, feel free to fire some psu suggestions at me. I'll have no problem selling this one, it's brand new.
 
It should be enough, but I probably wouldn't add too much hardware in the future. It is a fine PSU so you shouldn't have any issues.

If you do fancy selling it, then I would recommend a Seasonic S-12 600W. A tad expensive but should last you years and its as quiet as a whisper.

SiriusB
 
Cheers. :)

Sirius, I don't plan to put anymore hardware in it for a good long while - the most exciting thing I'll plan to do with it, is to fill the two PCI slots. ;)

Thing is, are there any alternative ways of extending the number of USB ports without going near the PCI slots?

I'm considering getting a decent soundcard and possibly an internal TV Card, so that would be the PCI slots used up already - and I think the case only has a handful of USBs (i.e. not enough)

I've heard of the USB hubs - but from what I gather they're pretty rubbish and divide the power of a USB rather than extending the number of USB ports?

It's not really vital and I don't expect there is a way around it - but just thought I'd throw it in to see if anyone knew.
 
Unpowered hubs, like I have in my keyboard here, allow you to plug in a few USB devices. The sum of all the power drawn from it cannot, of course, exceed what the USB port in the computer can give out so they're generally limited to two or so ports.

Powered hubs, like the one on my desk here, allow you to plug in many USB devices without worrying about drawing too much current from the motherboard. Be sure to get a high-speed USB 2.0 hub if you're getting one. Most of the ones I see in stores are USB 1.1.
 
Cheers, BTI. I'll have a look around.

If I had three PCI slots it would be ideal - I could run a soundcard, tv card and a few USB's from it - but alas. All is not perfect.

Thinking about it, if the hub was somewhere near decent, then I would probably be fine - as the likes of Ipod and digital camera leads aren't always needed - it's just the task of pulling out the tower and switching this lead with that lead, that potentially breaks me.
 
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