PC About to Die. Spec help needed

[honosuseri]

Sweet. I'll give it a go. Thanks very much

No worries mate. It does boot faster than 7 but I think this is largely because the recovery mode is gone. On 7 you can spam the F8 key to get into safe mode etc. I miss this as I do more troubleshooting on peoples systems than you might do.

As I said there is a free trial, so you can save a little cash for now whilst you collect your thoughts about it. The real bonus is they lifted the stupid RAM restrictions they had on the Windows 7 editions. All the best bud. God forbid you have any problems come build day you know where to find us

 

[photoshop]

No worries mate. It does boot faster than 7 but I think this is largely because the recovery mode is gone. On 7 you can spam the F8 key to get into safe mode etc. I miss this as I do more troubleshooting on peoples systems than you might do.

As I said there is a free trial, so you can save a little cash for now whilst you collect your thoughts about it. The real bonus is they lifted the stupid RAM restrictions they had on the Windows 7 editions. All the best bud. God forbid you have any problems come build day you know where to find us

Thanks I'll remember that.

Thanks again for your superb help. Thanks to acme15 too.

Saved me a lot of time as Ive been out of the game for a long time.

 

[honosuseri]

Thanks I'll remember that.

Thanks again for your superb help. Thanks to acme15 too.

Saved me a lot of time as Ive been out of the game for a long time.

Pencil me in for a christmas card then

We now have UEFI BIOS on the mobos, basically you can now use the mouse to navigate around and it looks far prettier.

Pop in the BIOS and you'll see what I mean. Set the RAM to use the XMP profile (this sets the best speed and timings for the kit for you) and ensure the Sata mode is ACHI and not IDE (should be default anyway). Set your boot priority for the drives and you are good to go. You can pop back later if you fancy trying the overclocking feature, always setup the rig at stock first.

 

[stulid]

You get much more bang for your buck with AMD at the lower end

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £89.99
1 x Toshiba SSD HG5D Series THNSNH 7mm 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - (THNSNH128GCST) £79.99
1 x Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00614) £71.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST2000DM001) HDD £65.99
1 x Patriot Intel Extreme Masters 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (PVI38G160C9K) £53.99
1 x MSI HD 5450 1024MB GDDR5 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card £19.99
1 x Pioneer 24x Internal DVR-221LBK DVD Rewriter - OEM £17.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £543.40 (includes shipping : £11.25).

 

[Akagi]

I wouldn't really call that a bunch more bang for buck.

The HD5450 is awful in comparison to even Intel HD4600

(I had one in my server at one point so I can personally say that it is a terrible piece of cack)

 

[stulid]

It is bang per buck considering its £50 less, the HD5450 is there because you need some sort of GFX card as there is no IGP on the CPU.

With the £50 saving you can swap out the GFX card to anything £70 such as a 7770GHz edition and that will officially kick the HD4600 into touch