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Kingorgg

Kingorgg

Kingorgg

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Hello Guys,

Just wondering If these specs will work together, nicely.
Going to take the plunge and place the order tomorrow when I get paid ^_^ Just thought I'd get advice first. Going to be used for gaming and programming. budget is £570~

Gigabyte GeForce GTS 450 OC 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with FREE Mouse Pad & HAWX2 PC-Game £107.99
(£91.91) £107.99
(£91.91)
Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower - Red Dragon Windowed Edition £84.98
(£72.32) £84.98
(£72.32)
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £75.19
(£63.99) £75.19
(£63.99)
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard £66.96
(£56.99) £66.96
(£56.99)
OCZ Gold 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Low-Voltage Dual Channel (OCZ3G1333LV4GK) £64.99
(£55.31) £64.99
(£55.31)
*** PROMO *** OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Certified Modular Power Supply £58.99
(£50.20) £58.99
(£50.20)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £33.99
(£28.93) £33.99
(£28.93)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £18.99
(£16.16) £18.99
(£16.16)
Logitech S-220 2.1 Speaker System - OEM (980-000022) £16.99
(£14.46) £16.99
(£14.46)
LG GH22LS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter Lightscribe Drive - Retail £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £463.03
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £17.85
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £84.15
Total : £565.03


Kind Regards,
Kingorgg
 
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this ram - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-203-CS

and you sure you cant afford a GTX460? - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-000-PL&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1830

cheaper psu will allow the price difference - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-034-CS&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=1084

so it looks like this,

Your basketProduct Name Qty Price Line Total
Palit GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with HAWX2 PC-Game £119.99
(£102.12) £119.99
(£102.12)
Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower - Red Dragon Edition £82.99
(£70.63) £82.99
(£70.63)
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £75.19
(£63.99) £75.19
(£63.99)
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard £66.96
(£56.99) £66.96
(£56.99)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Corsair CX 500W ATX Power Supply £49.98
(£42.54) £49.98
(£42.54)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £33.99
(£28.93) £33.99
(£28.93)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £18.99
(£16.16) £18.99
(£16.16)
Logitech S-220 2.1 Speaker System - OEM (980-000022) £16.99
(£14.46) £16.99
(£14.46)
LG GH22LS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter Lightscribe Drive - Retail £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £464.74
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £19.10
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £84.67
Total : £568.51
 
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Nice, made the changes and it's in budget (Would still have enough for bus fare) :)

So other than the RAM, PSU and GFX card, it is all good?

Kind Regards,
Kingorgg
 
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its good, either with your choice of psu or the Corsair psu you cant go wrong.

nice case too.
 
Looks good. We normally tell everyone to buy a Samsung F3 HDD, but there's probably very little in it. For £8 more you could get this mobo...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-418-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1124

...which has USB3/SATA6, if you think they might be of use to you, and also has a heatsink on the power devices which might help it supply a big overclock without breaking a sweat, especially if you upgrade to a quad-core CPU later.
 
If you changed the case and the speakers around you could probably get an i5 in there.

Here:

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Slightly over budget by 17quid but worth it IMO.
 
Hello Nelson Santos,

I don't really need 1TB of storage. So kept the 500GB Barracuda, saving me £3.02

If, I'm reading the case spec correctly, hopefully I am .. The case comes with 2 fans? one rear and one front?

--Spec Edit--

Intel Core i5 760 2.80GHz (Lynnfield) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £138.64
(£117.99) £138.64
(£117.99)
Palit GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with HAWX2 PC-Game £119.99
(£102.12) £119.99
(£102.12)
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard £66.96
(£56.99) £66.96
(£56.99)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Corsair CX 500W ATX Power Supply £49.98
(£42.54) £49.98
(£42.54)
Coolermaster Elite 430 Case - Black £41.99
(£35.74) £41.99
(£35.74)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £33.99
(£28.93) £33.99
(£28.93)
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3/775/1156/1366) £19.99
(£17.01) £19.99
(£17.01)
Logitech S-220 2.1 Speaker System - OEM (980-000022) £16.99
(£14.46) £16.99
(£14.46)
LG GH22LS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter Lightscribe Drive - Retail £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £484.70
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.50
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £87.01
Total : £584.21

Regards,
Kingorgg
 
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Referring back to my post above, if you're now going for a quad-core i5, I'd definately get the £8 more expensive mobo (at least) with a MOSFET heatsink. The little UD2 could struggle overclocking a quad. This came from one of the shop staff very experienced in overclocking...

rjkoneill said:
do you mean the UD2?

if so, then i would be careful when clocking
the UD2 doesnt have any mosfet heatsinks

when you clock a quad [i5/i7] on it, it can blow the mosfets up and set them on fire.

the board is generally alright for things like clarkdale i3 cpus but i wouldnt personally risk running a higher TDP cpu on that board.

we did a series of 20 systems with that board in and they all had to be replaced as the i5 @ 3.4ghz was too much for them

just a headsup :)
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Thanks for the heads up,
I ordered Stulid's edit, minus the speaker system. The Lancool seems good for the price, etc. and it is in my budget range.

Thank you all, very much, for the help.

Regards,
Kingorgg
 
Ok, I received this order this morning:

Your basket Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Palit GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with HAWX2 PC-Game £119.99
(£102.12) £119.99
(£102.12)
Lancool Dragon-Lord PC-K62 Mid Tower - Red Dragon Edition £82.99
(£70.63) £82.99
(£70.63)
Intel Core i3 530 2.93GHz (Clarkdale) (Socket LGA1156) - Retail £75.19
(£63.99) £75.19
(£63.99)
Gigabyte GA-H55M-UD2H Intel H55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 microATX Motherboard £66.96
(£56.99) £66.96
(£56.99)
Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX4GX3M2A1600C9) £65.99
(£56.16) £65.99
(£56.16)
Corsair CX 500W ATX Power Supply £49.98
(£42.54) £49.98
(£42.54)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3500418AS) £33.99
(£28.93) £33.99
(£28.93)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler (Socket 939 / AM2 / AM3 / 775 / 1156 / 1366) £18.99
(£16.16) £18.99
(£16.16)
LG GH22LS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter Lightscribe Drive - Retail £14.99
(£12.76) £14.99
(£12.76)
Sub Total : £464.74
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £19.10
VAT is being charged at 17.50% VAT : £84.67
Total : £568.51
Click to expand...

And I have a problem.

I connected most of everything up all fine, but when I switch it on, it stays on for approximately 1 second then shuts off, and repeats until you turn the PSU off. The only things that are not connected at the moment are 3 of 4 fans in the case and the GFX card.

No idea what is causing it, as I removed most of the stuff one by one to see what was causing the problem, but same thing throughout.

Regards,
Kingorgg
 
is the heatsink mounted correctly and plugged into the correct CPU_FAN header, the pc will switch off if a RPM isnt detected, temps get too high.

could also be the same with a system(case) fan.

why not try the graphics card in place.

try one stick of ram at a time, in different slots, then retest with the other ram stick.

is the case front panel cables in tact ( not cut/damaged and shorting out)

you did use stand-offs between the case and motherboard?
 
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