Specification check please

Papillon · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:05

Please could you check the following list for compatibility and suitability. It will be used for office applications, but running numerous applications at any one time. Thank you.

MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£59.95 £59.95
CP-121-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
£125.95 £125.95
MY-006-MK Mushkin 2GB DDR EM3200 Enhanced Performance Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) CAS3 (991461) (MY-006-MK)
£109.95 £109.95
HD-024-SA Samsung SpinPoint P HD160JJ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-024-SA)
£45.95 £45.95
GX-058-XF XFX GeForce PCX6600 Extreme XXX Edition 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (PVT43-PUDS7) (GX-058-XF)
£69.95 £69.95
CD-025-NE NEC ND4550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-025-NE)
£25.50 £25.50
CA-038-LL Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-038-LL)
£47.95 £47.95
CA-026-EN Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-026-EN)
£41.95 £41.95
KB-052-MS Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop v2.1 - OEM (KB-052-MS)
£24.95 £24.95
Subtotal £552.10
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £12.95
VAT £98.89
Total £663.94

Explicit · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:10

Papillon said:
Please could you check the following list for compatibility and suitability. It will be used for office applications, but running numerous applications at any one time. Thank you.

I would recommend dual-core instead. It will be more suited to multitasking.

Explicit · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:17

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM) **this week only**
£191.47
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£70.44
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) **this week only**
£105.69
PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO16 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-055-PC) **this week only**
£93.94
Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 NCQ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A31637) (HD-001-HI)
£52.82
NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£30.49
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£15.22
Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) **this week only**
£70.49
Logitech Cordless Internet Desktop Pro Black - OEM (KB-052-LG)
£23.44

Total inc VAT: £654.00

"This week only" items ends tommorow.

semi-pro waster · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:21

Explicit has given you a very good specification there, it is more use for multi-tasking and the graphics card is also better although that may not really be necessary for you

Papillon · 22 Mar 2006 at 18:43

Thanks very much for the advice. I will look into those components.

Papillon · 22 Mar 2006 at 20:18

I might want to add a second monitor in the future - what would be the best card for me to use to do this? I don't think I need anything fancy as I'm not going to be using it for games.

Explicit · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:21

Papillon said:
I might want to add a second monitor in the future - what would be the best card for me to use to do this? I don't think I need anything fancy as I'm not going to be using it for games.

Yup, the GTO16 has two DVI ports at the back, so you can run two monitors in the future. If you're not gaming at all, then get something cheaper instead.

ACESHIGH · 22 Mar 2006 at 23:26

Explicit said:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM) **this week only**
£191.47
Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS)
£70.44
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS3 (GE2GB3200BDC) (MY-046-GL) **this week only**
£105.69
PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO16 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-055-PC) **this week only**
£93.94
Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 NCQ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A31637) (HD-001-HI)
£52.82
NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£30.49
Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR)
£15.22
Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) **this week only**
£70.49
Logitech Cordless Internet Desktop Pro Black - OEM (KB-052-LG)
£23.44

Total inc VAT: £654.00

"This week only" items ends tommorow.

Yep. spec looks very good.
Definitely go for dual core, especially if multitasking, encoding etc.