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Nossmayo

Nossmayo

Nossmayo

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Just making sure this lot is all compatible for a decent gaming pc...



Will be a first time build for me....how difficult is the cooler to put in??

Would a [Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard] be worth considering instead and is it worth putting in a second graphics card?

Thoughts welcome....

PS. I will be getting either a 20" or more likely 24" monitor to go with it also.

EDIT: I already have an audigy 2 soundcard which im happy with...
 
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Coolers can be a pain to put in regardless of if they are 3rd party or not, the Tuniq tower is a good choice, The Abit IP-35 Pro is a good board indeed, more expensive but good for overclocking aswell, the Tuniq tower also fits on the IP35 Pro. 2nd graphics card for SLI config in my opinion isn't worth it, double the price but no where near double performance increase.

Back to MoBo, well I maybe biased but the Abit IP-35 is seemingly a great board to go for, I usually build comps with Asus boards but I jumped ship to the Abit IP-35 Pro this time round myself, but again it is a little more expensive but a good board to have if you're going to overclock.
 
the p35 chipset doesnt support SLi anyway so a second Graphics card will be pointless unless you brought 2 ati cards
 
jak731 said:
the p35 chipset doesnt support SLi anyway so a second Graphics card will be pointless unless you brought 2 ati cards
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Noted Thanks!

Incidently, instead of having two 500gb hdd's is there an obvious advantage to having just one (1TB) drive? Eg Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (0A34193) or a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM. Although more expensive would it be worth the extra ££'s?

Also, is it correct to go for 4GB RAM or would 2GB suffice??

Thanks..
 
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Noted Thanks!

Incidently, instead of having two 500gb hdd's is there an obvious advantage to having just one (1TB) drive? Eg Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (0A34193) or a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM. Although more expensive would it be worth the extra ££'s?

Also, is it correct to go for 4GB RAM or would 2GB suffice??

Thanks..
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Storage space seems cool? I personally like to have 2x 500GB for 1 reason, Dual booting, I'm not too keen on making seperate partitions when it comes to O/S so I like to have 2 physical HDDs, 1 for XP, 1 for Vista x64.. You can have 1TB drive & partition it into 2 halfs if you don't mind doing that to get a similar effect it's just if the HDD does go buh bye, thats 2 O/S gone, if you have 2 seperate HDDs you can usually boot from the working HDD & see what might be wrong with the other HDD & if above all else recover the data easily! ;) The advantage to just 1TB drive however is less cables, doesn't take up extra power & drivebay.

2GB would suffice, however many are going for 4GB now mainly because Vista apparantly has a good performance boost when you have 4GB of RAM, it's good for future proofing aswell.
 
get 2x500gb hdd as the 1tb ones are too expensive and are only worth considerign if you have a very small case and require a stupid amount of space, also with the 2x500, you could loose less if one drive fails or still use your pc if one drive is Dead on arrival
 
Thanks fella's....Im going to stick with the two hdd's and 4BG Ram!

Ive spent pretty much the whole week reading up on this pc building malarky! Its been educational! :-) Now, tell me truefully is it really quite straight forward to throw all this together and get the thing working!! Ive read a lot about peoples dislikes of Dell but I have to say that mine has (and still does touch wood) served me well for the past 4 years! Its not until i bought a couple of games recently that I realised it was time for improvements....and custom builds appear to be the way forward for future upgrading...rather than buying (say) another "high spec" Dell...
 
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Thanks fella's....Im going to stick with the two hdd's and 4BG Ram!

Ive spent pretty much the whole week reading up on this pc building malarky! Its been educational! :-) Now, tell me truefully is it really quite straight forward to throw all this together and get the thing working!! Ive read a lot about peoples dislikes of Dell but I have to say that mine has (and still does touch wood) served me well for the past 4 years! Its not until i bought a couple of games recently that I realised it was time for improvements....and custom builds appear to be the way forward for future upgrading...rather than buying (say) another "high spec" Dell...
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It has it's moment, near everyone myself included especially the 1st time, miss something really small on their 1st build, for me I forgot to plug any power into the motherboard, Yea I actually missed it, didn't understand why it didn't start up, so went to bed got some sleep, hit me suddenly in the morning, plugged the PSU into the motherboard & it were up & running... Building yourself offers a few good benefits, not only with price, however the quality of the parts is often (near always) better, & you get to learn some new things in the process, the proudness factor is really satisfying, I'm not saying people can't have problems as they certainly can but I think it's not common, especially if you have a forum like this to visit... With places like OcUK to visit, you have a place to basically get any help you need! I'd say the majority of people who've built their own, once they successfully done it, they don't go back to pre-builts.
 
Your right the support on here IS fantastic...Im going to go for it, I just needed to fine tune/confirm my shopping list, which you guys have now helped me with...just need to get it ordered now! I don't expect it be right first time but as you say thats part of the learning proccess and the satisifaction when it is (hopefully!) working well willl make it all worth while! :-)

Thanks for your help and advice mate...


EDIT: (Note to self) MUST remember to plug it in! ;-)
 
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Did you finalise your specs?
I am buiding pretty much the same except different MB (( because i read of a few recent probs with the Abit Pro in the forums)) and faster ram..

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM X2
Pioneer DVR-212D 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS II Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
Corsair HX620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU(CMPSU-620HXUK)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM
Let me know how you get on :-)))) Cheers
 
Seriously, why are people on this forum continually recommending over the top PSU's and ram kit's of which half will get used, not to mention it's taking a hit in the overclock department because it's so slow. Get a decent DDR2-800 kit of 2gig ram, and the corsair 520w psu or ocz stealthxstream 600w psu.
 
buy the retail q6600 for £2 more any enjoy a longer warrenty

i think the corsair HX520W psu is enough to run that PC (wait for conformation first though)

rest looks good to me
 
Thanks for that, ive changed the processor to retail version.

Will wait a couple of hours for confirmation of the PSU. If i get no replies i'l stay with the 620W.

Thanks again.
 
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