Please Help: New System build

[AceofSpades]

Hi all!

I'm building a new system and would like your advice as to weather everything I have chosen will work together alright and any other advice you might have.

This is what I have chosen so far :

Mobo
*MSI P4N SLI XE-F nForce4 SLI Intel LGA775 Serial ATA-300 8channel audio ATX 117018 15 in stock £53.10 £53.10
CPU
*Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86ghz - Skt775 Fsb1066 2mb Cache Boxed In 112704 402 in stock £107.40 £107.40
Memory
*competitor* 1GB DDR2 800 MHz PC2-6400 240pin Extra Value Ram 2 x 512 KIT 116355 10 in stock £80.57 £80.57
DVD RW
*Sony AW-G170AB2 18xDVD±RW/RAM Dual Layer Writer Black - Bare Drive 116255 340 in stock £17.01 £17.01
Monitor
*Belinea 1925S1W 19" Widescreen 5ms 850:1 (1440 X 900) Silver & Black MultiMedia TFT Monitor 3 Years Onsite Warranty 114209 91 in stock £109.99 £109.99
Case+PSU
*Sansun SN-C0503 Gaming Case in Silver with a 350w Power Suply and 2.0USB/Audio 086532 1 in stock £25.52 £25.52
HDD
*Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE 250GB 7200RPM SATA2/300 16MB Cache - OEM 094403 1429 in stock £43.95 £43.95
GPU
*Asus 7600GS SILENT 512MB DDR2 PCI-E 111199 98 in stock £76.00 £76.00
- remove item Cart Total: £577.36

Approx Cart Weight: 16.86Kg
SubTotal: £520.53
VAT: £91.13
Total: £611.66

Many thanks in advance

 

[AceofSpades]

Would it really be worth spending £60 odd and getting the GIGABYTE 965P-DS3 motherboard ??

Is the GPU compatible with the MSI board ?

 

[AceofSpades]

You may have a problem in that your motherboard doesn't officially support Conroe according to MSI.

I'd also suggest that the PSU supplied with the case is unlikely to be any good and finally the graphics card isn't particularly great, if that is around your budget save up a little bit more and get a 7600gt.

Yeah will def get atleast a 450w PSU.

Re: GPU
Which 7600GT would you recommend ?
The Belinea 1925S1W monitor doesn't support DVI as far as I know, so would need something with normal VGA connector ???

 

[AceofSpades]

Thanks for all you help so far Semi-pro waster, really good help.

I've made some changes now, hows this setup ??

I'm going to look around for the best prices though !


Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86ghz - Skt775 Fsb1066 2mb Cache Boxed In 112704 389 in stock £107.40 £107.40
Sony AW-G170AB2 18xDVD±RW/RAM Dual Layer Writer Black - Bare Drive 116255 203 in stock £17.01 £17.01
Belinea 1925S1W 19" Widescreen 5ms 850:1 (1440 X 900) Silver & Black MultiMedia TFT Monitor 3 Years Onsite Warranty 114209 91 in stock £109.99 £109.99
Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE 250GB 7200RPM SATA2/300 16MB Cache - OEM 094403 1393 in stock £43.95 £43.95
ASRock ConRoe945G-DVI i945G SKT LGA775 onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX 119413 30 in stock £41.69 £41.69
*competitor* 2GB DDR2 667MHz PC2-5400 240pin Extra Value Ram 2 x 1GB KIT 116260 6 in stock £127.22 £127.22
Point Of View 7900GS 256MB 256bit GDDR3 PCI-E 115739 57 in stock £119.13 £119.13
Antec NSK6500 Black/Silver Super Mid Tower Case - With 430W PSU 114046 9 in stock £66.79 £66.79

Shipping Surcharge: £4.20
SubTotal: £642.27
VAT: £112.44
Total: £754.71

Is it better to get the CPU without the heat sink and buy one seperate ??

 

[AceofSpades]

You're speccing up parts from a competitor, a bit cheeky really considering this is the OCuk forums. Was clearly obvious when i saw the stock numbers next to the parts.

By listing parts from that site, you're mentioning a competitor (against forum rules).

Apologies, I was using *competitor*, but only cause its easier to see what you building, once I know what I want I will be ordering quite a lot of the stuff from OCuk. In furture I will only put the product name then if it bothers you so much. I just want o make it perfectly clear that I am not trying to get people to user other site or detract from buying from OCuk.

Cheers

 

[AceofSpades]

WOuld I be bett off with an ATI GPU over the Nvidia, on my price range ?

was thinking of: Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-134-SP) --> £135.11 ????