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p4radox

p4radox

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Ok, this looks like a good spec to me for the price. Going to be building 2 of these in the next week or so. Any feedback welcome:)

Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU (CA-052-AN)
£34.95 £34.95
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£136.95 £136.95
Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA)
£34.95 £34.95
Asus DVD-E616P1 DVD-ROM (Black) - Retail (CD-018-AS)
£12.50 £12.50
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 LA PC2-5300 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-5400PHU2-2GBLA) (MY-012-GS)
£91.95 £91.95
Asrock ConroeXFire-eSATA2 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-003-AK)
£49.95 £49.95
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN)
£114.95 £114.95
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775) (HS-017-AR)
£14.95 £14.95
Logitech MX518 Gaming-Grade Optical Mouse (KB-060-LG)
£27.95 £27.95
OcUK Value Hanns-G HW191D 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-017-OK)
£119.95 £119.95
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition inc. SP2 - OEM - 1Pk (N09-01528) (OS-001-MS)
£51.95 £51.95
Subtotal £691.00
VAT £120.93
Total £811.93
 
I would be a bit sceptical at the gpu u have chosen as its only 256mb? and it may have issues running games on max settings at high res. I noticed you are going for a 19" inch monitor so your max res will be 1280 x 1024 upwards so you may wanna choose a 512mb gfx card...

What games do you play? are you a gamer?

I would go for a case with more power than 380w....you can get the antec with the 450w psu I believe that will be ok...

Will you be overclocking the system? If yes I would get a better mobo something like the gigabyte...

You have put down a DVD ROM but not DVD RW do you have a DVD RW already? If not I recommend the NEC 4570

I am unsure about the monitor you may wanna post in that section and they will be able to advise you better....
 
It's not for me, but the guy wants a 19" monitor. People in Monitors seem to like them.

PSU calculators say that system will only use 290W at full load so hopefully 380 will be plenty.

Overclocking is not a priority, but the board will reach 300 fsb which i think will give a nice boost. I was tempted by the Gigabyte DS3 but the budget is tight.

DVDRW is not needed - purely a gaming pc.

Thanks:)
 
PSU calculators say that system will only use 290W at full load so hopefully 380 will be plenty.
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I wouldnt trust PSU calculators.....its your call mate however the last thing you want is to find out the psu died and took another component with it..

19" monitors are fine but there are things you need to look into when buying monitors i.e. back light bleeding and dead pixels etc..

For an extra tenner surely its worth just getting a DVD RW?

ATI's drink a lot of juice so I would worry about a) the 256mb aspect being able to hold max res and b) whether its gonna be getting enough power or will be resetting when you try and play games on max settings....

As you say its a "gaming" pc so why not get a slighter more power PSU and a 512mb card :)

your call

its only my opinon...
 
I appreciate the comments::)

I'm going to go with the Antec PSU for now, they've always been fine for me before.

A 512 card is £80 more though:(
 
p4radox said:
I appreciate the comments::)

I'm going to go with the Antec PSU for now, they've always been fine for me before.

A 512 card is £80 more though:(
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I've seen plenty of resources suggesting the 256mb x1800xt is fine at 19'' tft res, so the £80 extra is probably a waste. I think the 256mb vs 512mb performance difference is only noticeable if you get to 1600x1200 isn't it? Which a 19'' can't do anyway.
 
The X1800XT 256mb will be fine for gaming, no need to get the 512mb unless, like HicRic said you're playing on quite large resolutions. Above 1280x1024?. Also that Antec PSU should power that rig quite easily :)
 
The X1800XT 256mb will be fine for gaming, no need to get the 512mb unless, like HicRic said you're playing on quite large resolutions. Above 1280x1024?.
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It will be fine for gaming however pushing it for res's at / abt 1280 x 1024 on max settings...
 
the 6300 comes with a fan and the chips run cool so you don't need to buy a new CPU cooler

- Supplied with Intel referance heatsink & fan

Maybe spend more and get the segate 250 hard drive with 16mb cache, will improve game loading times.


I've seen quite a few dead pixel complaints about that monitor, you might want to check that out.
 
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the 6300 comes with a fan and the chips run cool so you don't need to buy a new CPU cooler

- Supplied with Intel referance heatsink & fan

Maybe spend more and get the segate 250 hard drive with 16mb cache, will improve game loading times.


I've seen quite a few dead pixel complaints about that monitor, you might want to check that out.
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I'm getting an OEM chip, and silence is nice - hence the Arctic Cooler. :)

The Seagate HDD looks good, but it's another £20 and on an already tight budget I think the Samsung will be fine.

Thanks :)
 
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