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meghatronic

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What do you guys think? Will this pc struggle with anything...?

Is the PSU okay? (will have 2 extra hd's in it and an additional dvd player eventually)

Also is there any point with the extra soundcard or will onboard suffice?


Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor

Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower

Corsair 2GB DDR XMS4000PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS3

Samsung SpinPoint T HD300LD 300GB ATA-100 8MB Cache

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Socket 939, ToledoCore, 2x 2.4GHz, 2MBCache, Retail

Abit AN8 32X, NF4 SLI, S939, PCI-E (x16), DDR 400, SATA I / II, SATA RAID, ATX

530w Tagan EasyCon - TG530-U15 - 2Force Silent Modular PSU

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro - S754/939/940

1Gb XFX 7950GX2, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1200 MHz, GPU 500 MHz, 48 Pipes, S-Video/2xDVI

+ Keyboard/mouse etc....


Before I click buy and part with £1700+
 
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HS-003-SY Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755) (HS-003-SY)
£31.95 £31.95
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)

MB-152-AS Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)
£134.95 £134.95
GX-053-HT HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT)
£189.95 £189.95
MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL)
£124.95 £124.95
HD-082-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620A ATA-100 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-082-SE)
£54.95 £54.95
CA-024-EN Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-024-EN)
£87.95 £87.95
SC-043-CL Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music - OEM (SC-043-CL)
£44.95 £44.95
MO-011-DE Dell Ultrasharp 2007WFP 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey (MO-011-DE)
£319.95 £319.95
CA-010-TT Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower - Black (CA-010-TT)
£63.95 £63.95
Subtotal £1,255.50
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £24.95
VAT £224.08
Total £1,504.53
+keyboard and mouse of choice.


Conroe is streets ahead of any AMD chip right now so better value and performance.
If you just have a personal preference for NVidia then the card is really personal preference but i'd rate the x1900 as worth it more, can always get a master card and go crossfire if thats your thing.

The M/board might be better changed if you have no interest in crossfire or are set on AMD, but still... its an absolute cracking mobo.

Edit - with the above you are very likely to around about 3.5Ghz ish per core if overclocking.

Edit - possibly wrong cpu clicked.
 
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Kabaala said:
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Conroe is streets ahead of any AMD chip right now so better value and performance.
If you just have a personal preference for NVidia then the card is really personal preference but i'd rate the x1900 as worth it more, can always get a master card and go crossfire if thats your thing.

The M/board might be better changed if you have no interest in crossfire or are set on AMD, but still... its an absolute cracking mobo.
Click to expand...

Hmmm... I'm not really a fan of ATI..... what Nvidia would you recommend?

Also, why the seagate?
 
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To be honest i wouldn't recommend any atm, simply through personal bad experience with the 1/20 of every 7900+ card being sold being knackered. I dont know too much about the 7950GX2 so it's worthwhile asking around/reading around on here, but from what i can gather it really isnt all that great and has a huge amount of heat output.

I used to think the same about Ati due to never really having had any problems with nvidia and not being happy with performance/noise of ati cards i've had. Add an aftermarket cooler like the zalman and the noise is sorted, performance wise the newer ati cards have it in the bag tbh.
 
It should do very well at that rez but bear in mind that different games will play better than others. ie an x850xt can handle BF2 but struggle on other games at that rez ;)

If you are unsure about the graphics, have a read on the GPU section. A lot of it seems biased towards the x1900xt but it's deserved.
 
go for 7950GX2 sli on single card YEY and deffo conroe if your starting from scratch
 
tbh the 7950GX2 is very good at high resolutions for obv reasons and is cheaper than buying two high end nvidia or ati cards and running them in SLI/Crossfire
 
Right...

This is as it stands at the moment.

MO-009-DE Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey (MO-009-DE)
£524.95 £524.95
CA-010-TT Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower - Black (CA-010-TT)
£63.95 £63.95
HS-003-SY Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755) (HS-003-SY)
£31.95 £31.95
CP-128-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)
£204.99 £204.99
MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL)
£124.95 £124.95
HD-082-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620A ATA-100 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-082-SE)
£54.95 £54.95
CA-024-EN Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-024-EN)
£87.95 £87.95
MB-152-AS Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)
£134.95 £134.95
GX-053-HT HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT)
£189.95 £189.95
CD-048-LO Liteon SHM-165P6S-09C 16x DVD±RW/RAM (Black) - OEM (CD-048-LO)
£19.50 £19.50
HD-001-OK OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK)
£4.95 £4.95
CD-020-SO Sony DDU-1615 DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM (CD-020-SO)
£10.50 £10.50
Subtotal £1,453.54
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £24.95
VAT £258.74
Total £1,737.23


Any further objections/ammendments?

Will the case be okay and everything 'fit'?
 
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Looks good, everything will fit in that case fine. I do like the theramltake cases and use the thermaltake soprano with the side window myself but no doubt someone will appear to tell you to get a Lian Li. They are meant to be very good build quality but i find them very drab and boring.
 
I would wait for a couple more people to have a look at the thread before buying on my say so though, 2+ heads are better than one ;)
 
Tbh honest i've never used a soundcard, i use a sony dvd/home cinema system through the digital optical out. So the sound card i specced is your choice as i assumed you knew about them cos i didnt :p

The onboard sound on the mobo is very good though.
 
I assume you have a retail version of windows already?.. £50 can be used towards an OEM version if you dont.
 
I have retail pro.. that's transferable.

To be honest.. I'd rather not 'find' the £50 :p

I only have £400 as it is... going to use overdrafts to buy it till I get paid.
 
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