Rate My System Please :-)

cassiusuk · 20 Jan 2007 at 15:19

Hi, I have just totally upgraded my system, based on the advice from forum members here. Bear in mind that I didnt have too much to spend. Please tell me what you think?

CASE: AKASA ZEN MIDI ATX IVORY WITH 2 SILENT 12CM FANS AT FRONT AND REAR.
PSU: HIPER 580W PSU
CHIP: INTEL CORE2DUO E6600 2.4GZ
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA945P-S3 Socket 775 FSB 1066mhz
GRAPHICS CARD: NVIDIA GEOFORCE 7900GS WITH 512MB DDR 3 MEMORY, OVERCLOCKED USING NVTRAY
MEMORY: 2 GIG DDR2 DUAL CHANNELED 533MHZ SPEED, BOTH KINGSTON AND DELL (NOT SURE OF MAKE)
MONITOR: 17" DELL FLAT PANEL
SOUND: DELL 5.1 SPEAKER SYSTEM, 5 SPEAKERS AND SUBWOOFER.
OPERATING SYSTEM: WINDOWS XP MC EDITION 2005

Let me know what you think, as value all your advice.

Cheers

Cassius

hai · 20 Jan 2007 at 15:37

Decent specs, only down points are possibly the RAM and the PSU, but the PSU should be fine for your needs.

EvilGrin · 20 Jan 2007 at 15:45

Fair amount of folk having issues with blowing hiper PSU's, i'd stay away from them if I were you. Corsair psu's seem to be the current flavour of the month.

thefishdude · 20 Jan 2007 at 16:33

looks good to me

Duke · 20 Jan 2007 at 16:35

The PSU is fine. When are you going to overclock then?

cassiusuk · 20 Jan 2007 at 16:42

I got recommended the psu from [No competitors - Minstadave], so if it blows I wont be best please lol. :eek:

Ill be overclocking soon, just finding out info about it as never done it before. But the easytune 5 program that came with the motherboard looks ok. What do you think about it, any good?

mysticsniper · 20 Jan 2007 at 16:49

cassiusuk, you need to remove the name of the competitor

Looks a nice system, will deffo look even better when its running a 3Ghz +

Deiwos · 20 Jan 2007 at 16:49

cassiusuk said:
I got recommended the psu from ********, so if it blows I wont be best please lol.

Ill be overclocking soon, just finding out info about it as never done it before. But the easytune 5 program that came with the motherboard looks ok. What do you think about it, any good?

From what I've read recently, people have had issues with the Hipers. Haven't seen any problem with the corsairs yet, so might be worth your while investing in one. Bad PSU can totally screw your computer, so personally, I'd invest in a decent one.

Trigger · 20 Jan 2007 at 18:12

cassiusuk said:
I got recommended the psu from **********, so if it blows I wont be best please lol.

Ill be overclocking soon, just finding out info about it as never done it before. But the easytune 5 program that came with the motherboard looks ok. What do you think about it, any good?

Remove the competitor name please

Spec looks ok, there have been reports recently about the Hiper PSUs blowing but I don't think it's much to worry about. Let down slightly by the mix and matched RAM (I think Dell normally use samsung RAM), one because it's never a good in dual channel mode to mix different make sticks and two, it's not the best recipie for overclocking