it doesnt have a coax output, but getting one that would would add another £50
*****THE OFFICIAL "SPEC ME" THREAD*****
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Do you not get an adapter which uses the line-in and mic jack?
Oui, je suis confuse. Good effort to the OP though.
BUDGET: £800-£1000
Processor: Yes
Motherboard: Yes
Memory: Yes
Graphics Card(s): Yes
TV Card: No
Hard Drive(s): No
Optical Drive(s): No
Cooling: Yes
Water Cooling: No
Cable(s): No
Sound Card: No
Controller Card(s): No
Case: No
Power Supply: Yes
Keyboard: No
Mouse: No
Headset: No
Speakers: No
Monitor(s): No
Operating System: Yes
Uses: Gaming, programming, photoshop etc
Overclocking: Not usually
Processor: Yes
Motherboard: Yes
Memory: Yes
Graphics Card(s): Yes
TV Card: No
Hard Drive(s): No
Optical Drive(s): No
Cooling: Yes
Water Cooling: No
Cable(s): No
Sound Card: No
Controller Card(s): No
Case: No
Power Supply: Yes
Keyboard: No
Mouse: No
Headset: No
Speakers: No
Monitor(s): No
Operating System: Yes
Uses: Gaming, programming, photoshop etc
Overclocking: Not usually
Agreed. Nice initiative from the OP however but this will get a confusing thread very fast and people like to debate a spec, and trying to debate 10 specs at the same time in one thread will get hard. You'd have people who posted a spec going over a few pages of posts trying to find their specs.
If anything there should be a seperate "Spec Me" forum, with a template system like post titles are: "Gaming PC - £700 max", "HTPC - £300 to £400" and the posts using the template that the OP posted.
It would clear up the General Hardware forum quite a bit.
Hey, new here, trying to spec a new computer I've chose some parts just want some advice about them, compatability? or alternate parts I could use for same performance etc, cheers.
BUDGET: £700.00 - £800.00
Processor: Yes (Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB))
Motherboard: Yes (MSI P45 Platinum Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard)
Memory: Yes (OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800C44GK))
Graphics Card(s): (Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express))
TV Card: No
Hard Drive(s): Yes (Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD753LJ))
Optical Drive(s): Yes (Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM)
Cooling: Yes (Akasa AK-922 EVO Blue CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775))
Water Cooling: No
Cable(s): No
Sound Card: No (M/B Sound should suffice)
Controller Card(s): No
Case: No (Already have an Antec Nine Hundred)
Power Supply: Yes (Antec Neo HE 650W Blue
Keyboard: No
Mouse: No
Headset: No
Speakers: No
Monitor(s): No
Operating System: Have XP Pro (Will I need Vista 64bit, or can I manage with XP)
Uses: Gaming primarily, games currently are things like: Company Of Heroes, Total War, World Of Warcraft, Call Of Duty 1-4, Half Life 2, CSS, Brothers In Arms. Would like to play them on high settings with a decent frame rate instead of low-medium currently with marginal frame rate.
Overclocking: Possibly, maybe
I'm not really sure about the graphics card, can I get away with better one that is cheaper, or is that a good choice?
It has to be better than my current rig of an AMD XP 2200+, 512mb RAM, and an GeForce FX 5200, lol.
Any help is welcomed, thanks.
BUDGET: £700.00 - £800.00
Processor: Yes (Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB))
Motherboard: Yes (MSI P45 Platinum Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard)
Memory: Yes (OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800C44GK))
Graphics Card(s): (Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express))
TV Card: No
Hard Drive(s): Yes (Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD753LJ))
Optical Drive(s): Yes (Samsung SH-S223F/BEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM)
Cooling: Yes (Akasa AK-922 EVO Blue CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775))
Water Cooling: No
Cable(s): No
Sound Card: No (M/B Sound should suffice)
Controller Card(s): No
Case: No (Already have an Antec Nine Hundred)
Power Supply: Yes (Antec Neo HE 650W Blue
Keyboard: No
Mouse: No
Headset: No
Speakers: No
Monitor(s): No
Operating System: Have XP Pro (Will I need Vista 64bit, or can I manage with XP)
Uses: Gaming primarily, games currently are things like: Company Of Heroes, Total War, World Of Warcraft, Call Of Duty 1-4, Half Life 2, CSS, Brothers In Arms. Would like to play them on high settings with a decent frame rate instead of low-medium currently with marginal frame rate.
Overclocking: Possibly, maybe
I'm not really sure about the graphics card, can I get away with better one that is cheaper, or is that a good choice?
It has to be better than my current rig of an AMD XP 2200+, 512mb RAM, and an GeForce FX 5200, lol.
Any help is welcomed, thanks.
Soldato
The spec looks good but I'd change the cooler to a Tuniq tower. My friend has the akasa and it dreadful with his q6600. As for the mobo, I'd highly recommend you look at the asus p5q, especially the deluxe which is a dream to work with and has so many features. It's also very good for overclocking. I'm not sure how good the antec power supply is but the corsair 620hw can be had for a similar price and they generally have a very good reputation.
that seems pefect to me, just swap the cooler with a Tuniq Tower and your set for extreemly high graphics loaded with AA and AF and it wont break a sweat
that would be a brilliant idea. come on MODS USE THIS
(how about you send an email to the mods?)
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If you want 4GB of Ram you'll need a 64bit OS otherwise the operating system won't see all of the RAM and it will be wasted.
You also ask about the GFX card and if you could get away with a cheaper option. That depends on what resolution you game at, so let us know what monitor you have and what resolution you game at and people should be able to comment
I currently only have a Samsung 17" LCD monitor at the minute, I don't really have the money to update that yet, and I only really game at about 1024 x 768 would prefer that to be higher, but you know, lol.
I do however have a Sony 40" Bravia sitting a few feet to my side, which hopefully if I get the correct cable I should be able to rig up to this computer to game on until I get a better monitor.
I do however have a Sony 40" Bravia sitting a few feet to my side, which hopefully if I get the correct cable I should be able to rig up to this computer to game on until I get a better monitor.
rig it upto the 40" and fly away at the games 1920x1080 itll be amazing
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A 40" monitor would be very tasty indeed
perfect
onboard will be enough
after seeing £440 for the lot fiasco, im pulling this back up
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BUDGET: £800
Processor: yes (thinking of the e8500)
Motherboard:yes (might go xfire in the future)
Memory:yea (preferably 4gb)
Graphics Card(s):HD4870
TV Card:no
Hard Drive(s):yea
Optical Drive(s):yea (DVDRW)
Cooling:no
Water Cooling:no
Cable(s):no
Sound Card:no
Controller Card(s):
Case:yea (was going to grab an antec 300)
Power Supply:yes
Keyboard:no
Mouse:no
Headset:no
Speakers:no
Monitor(s):no
Operating System:yes
Uses: 80% gaming
Overclocking:would like to
Good thread shaffaaf
Processor: yes (thinking of the e8500)
Motherboard:yes (might go xfire in the future)
Memory:yea (preferably 4gb)
Graphics Card(s):HD4870
TV Card:no
Hard Drive(s):yea
Optical Drive(s):yea (DVDRW)
Cooling:no
Water Cooling:no
Cable(s):no
Sound Card:no
Controller Card(s):
Case:yea (was going to grab an antec 300)
Power Supply:yes
Keyboard:no
Mouse:no
Headset:no
Speakers:no
Monitor(s):no
Operating System:yes
Uses: 80% gaming
Overclocking:would like to
Good thread shaffaaf
thank you,
a little over, but he antec 300 as an amazing a case as it is dosnt come with front intake fans, but has two out take, if you taek away one of the front intake fans, you get it at £799.
seeing as you wanted xfire as a possibility, i gave you a very good X38 board which will do x16/x16 PCIE 2.0 support, unlike the P45s which would give x8/x8 once in xfire, AND the PSU have 4 PCI-E (6+2) pins, so 2 4870s would do perfectly, but the onyl downside is no modular cables, but he antec 300 is a brilliant case and you can hide those cables away in its cable management area
now you may think, i could have taken the fans away and put a 500GB HDD, but this is the fastest 7200rpm drive you can buy, and will be out in two days. it has a single 320GB platter, which makes it very fast.
if however you want £500 GB, then for an extra tenner, get this:http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...nt F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ)
and get rid of the ram, and use this instead:http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...al Channel Platinum Series DDR2 (OCZ2P10664GK)
a little over, but he antec 300 as an amazing a case as it is dosnt come with front intake fans, but has two out take, if you taek away one of the front intake fans, you get it at £799.
seeing as you wanted xfire as a possibility, i gave you a very good X38 board which will do x16/x16 PCIE 2.0 support, unlike the P45s which would give x8/x8 once in xfire, AND the PSU have 4 PCI-E (6+2) pins, so 2 4870s would do perfectly, but the onyl downside is no modular cables, but he antec 300 is a brilliant case and you can hide those cables away in its cable management area
now you may think, i could have taken the fans away and put a 500GB HDD, but this is the fastest 7200rpm drive you can buy, and will be out in two days. it has a single 320GB platter, which makes it very fast.
if however you want £500 GB, then for an extra tenner, get this:http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...nt F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502IJ)
and get rid of the ram, and use this instead:http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...al Channel Platinum Series DDR2 (OCZ2P10664GK)
Soldato
Nice thread mate.
I might be ordering a new gaming PC soon. I'd like to spend about £450. I definitely don't need a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I may need a DVD drive, HDD and floppy drive but I'm not entirely sure until I do some reading (I got a power cut last night and my PC is seemingly screwed so I'm a little skeptical about putting anything from within that PC into a new PC). Apart from those things I need everything else. If you could knock something up I would be very grateful
Edit:
Just found your quality thread with loads of builds in it. I will check that out
I might be ordering a new gaming PC soon. I'd like to spend about £450. I definitely don't need a monitor, keyboard and mouse. I may need a DVD drive, HDD and floppy drive but I'm not entirely sure until I do some reading (I got a power cut last night and my PC is seemingly screwed so I'm a little skeptical about putting anything from within that PC into a new PC). Apart from those things I need everything else. If you could knock something up I would be very grateful
Edit:
Just found your quality thread with loads of builds in it. I will check that out
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