Spec check please...

Chris19 · 19 Apr 2006 at 01:12

Is this spec any good? Will be ordering this soonish.

Shopping Cart (Prices in British Pounds) REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST REMOVE
CP-152-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£169.95 £169.95
MB-014-DF DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-014-DF)
£79.95 £79.95
MY-059-OC OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Gold GX XTC Series EL-DDR CAS2 (OCZ4002048ELGEGXT-K) (MY-059-OC)
£159.95 £159.95
GX-059-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-059-PC)
£299.95 £299.95
HD-048-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 200GB 2000JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-048-WD)
£49.95 £49.95
HD-001-OK OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK)
£5.95 £5.95
CD-037-PO Pioneer DVR-111D 16 x 16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Beige) OEM (CD-037-PO)
£24.50 £24.50
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£15.95 £15.95
CA-010-TT Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower - Black (CA-010-TT)
£63.95 £63.95
CA-008-HP Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Red UV (CA-008-HP)
£52.95 £52.95
KB-015-SK Saitek PZ30AU Eclipse Illuminated Keyboard (KB-015-SK)
£24.95 £24.95
KB-069-LG Logitech G5 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse (KB-069-LG)
£31.95 £31.95
MO-022-SA Samsung SM-913N 19" LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-022-SA)
£169.95 £169.95
Subtotal £1,149.90
VAT £201.24
Total £1,351.14

What do you think??

easyrider · 19 Apr 2006 at 02:32

get a better PSU
and the cpu will bottleneck the gfx card

dayloon · 19 Apr 2006 at 07:35

easyrider said:
get a better PSU
and the cpu will bottleneck the gfx card

Whats wrong with the hiper 580W PSU just out of interest??

xirokx · 19 Apr 2006 at 07:43

the cpu will bottleneck the gfx card

why??

easyrider · 19 Apr 2006 at 10:27

dayloon said:
Whats wrong with the hiper 580W PSU just out of interest??

There are better PSU's for not much money more.
The Hipers are not bad but with that budget he wants an Enermax ,Antec or seasonic at least.

The Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU is £10 more and its far better.

ACESHIGH · 19 Apr 2006 at 10:40

Chris19 said:
Is this spec any good? Will be ordering this soonish.

Shopping Cart (Prices in British Pounds) REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST REMOVE
CP-152-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£169.95 £169.95
MB-014-DF DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-014-DF)
£79.95 £79.95
MY-059-OC OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Gold GX XTC Series EL-DDR CAS2 (OCZ4002048ELGEGXT-K) (MY-059-OC)
£159.95 £159.95
GX-059-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-059-PC)
£299.95 £299.95
HD-048-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 200GB 2000JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-048-WD)
£49.95 £49.95
HD-001-OK OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK)
£5.95 £5.95
CD-037-PO Pioneer DVR-111D 16 x 16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Beige) OEM (CD-037-PO)
£24.50 £24.50
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£15.95 £15.95
CA-010-TT Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower - Black (CA-010-TT)
£63.95 £63.95
CA-008-HP Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Red UV (CA-008-HP)
£52.95 £52.95
KB-015-SK Saitek PZ30AU Eclipse Illuminated Keyboard (KB-015-SK)
£24.95 £24.95
KB-069-LG Logitech G5 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse (KB-069-LG)
£31.95 £31.95
MO-022-SA Samsung SM-913N 19" LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-022-SA)
£169.95 £169.95
Subtotal £1,149.90
VAT £201.24
Total £1,351.14

What do you think??

i think that a very good rig.

X2 3800+ is a great CPU (& can overclock well)
X1900 XT-X 512MB is some of the best graphics you can get
OCZ 2GB is good stuff
the rest is pretty well judged.

babyface uk · 19 Apr 2006 at 11:53

Chris19 said:
Is this spec any good? Will be ordering this soonish.

Shopping Cart (Prices in British Pounds) REFERENCE DESCRIPTION QUANTITY PRICE COST REMOVE
CP-152-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£169.95 £169.95
MB-014-DF DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-014-DF)
£79.95 £79.95
MY-059-OC OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC3200 Dual Channel Gold GX XTC Series EL-DDR CAS2 (OCZ4002048ELGEGXT-K) (MY-059-OC)
£159.95 £159.95
GX-059-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-059-PC)
£299.95 £299.95
HD-048-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 200GB 2000JS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-048-WD)
£49.95 £49.95
HD-001-OK OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK)
£5.95 £5.95
CD-037-PO Pioneer DVR-111D 16 x 16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Beige) OEM (CD-037-PO)
£24.50 £24.50
FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£15.95 £15.95
CA-010-TT Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower - Black (CA-010-TT)
£63.95 £63.95
CA-008-HP Hiper HPU-4K580-MK Type R 580W Modular ATX2.2 PSU - Red UV (CA-008-HP)
£52.95 £52.95
KB-015-SK Saitek PZ30AU Eclipse Illuminated Keyboard (KB-015-SK)
£24.95 £24.95
KB-069-LG Logitech G5 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse (KB-069-LG)
£31.95 £31.95
MO-022-SA Samsung SM-913N 19" LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-022-SA)
£169.95 £169.95
Subtotal £1,149.90
VAT £201.24
Total £1,351.14

What do you think??

The graphics card may be overkill on the resolution your monitor will run at, I suggest a cheaper graphics card and get a raptor hd for the O/S and programs, or a 20" or above screen so the powercolour card can show of what it can really do.

Babyface UK