*****THE OFFICIAL "SPEC ME" THREAD*****

[dim_pwn]

Just reading reviews of the 4870x2 - not all great. a lot of moaning about temp and power and not as great performance as expected. Will the 650w be enough?

Any alternative system suggestions guys? or does above hit the mark?

 

[formatuk]

Well you said you wanted all games maxed, it will run crysis 1600x1200 on full @40-60fps!!! its an awesome (& MASSIVE) card. £100 more for the 295 which aint £100 better! 650W is plenty, unless you wanted add another 4870 X2 in future, then i'd be looking at the 850W

sure some other suggestions will come soon

 

[dim_pwn]

..made new thread. Thanks Form.

 

[aries2580]

Spec me plz!

Hey all

BUDGET: 400-600

Processor: No (I own a Q6600)
Motherboard: Yes (I was thinking about something by DFI, then i saw the blackops but it doesnt play nice with OCZ memory so i have read, so thats a no go.)
Memory: Possibly (I own atm 4GB DDR2 Crucial Tracer 800MHz CL4)
Graphics Card(s): xFx 4870 xXx 1GB edition (no compromise)
TV Card: No
Hard Drive(s): No
Optical Drive(s): No
Cooling: I Own an OCZ Vendetta 2 at the minute... If you can suggest anything better than that?
Water Cooling: No
Cable(s): ?
Sound Card: I was thinking about an asus sonar card. (if you suggest one could you suggest some mad surround sound headphone?)
Controller Card(s): No
Case: Silverstone Fortress
Power Supply: Something Quiet and able to cope with all the above

Keyboard: No
Mouse: No
Headset: Yes
Speakers: No (wont be using speakers)
Monitor(s): I have a 22" samsung 1680x1050
Operating System: Vista business 64Bit

Uses: Lots and Lots of games, programming, level design, texture creation (so photoshop/gimp stuff), word processing and some music... I have my mac for that but i would still like my music to sound nice.

Overclocking: HELL yes. I dont just wanna hit high frequencies. I want a better performing system. It all has to work together and be lovely


Thanks all!

 

[icey_haj]

aries2580 can you make a new thread detailing what you want? Because I'm confused.

 

[aries2580]

k hold on

 

[aries2580]

Thread here

 

[cleaveland]

BUDGET: £1150 (maybe a bit over if need be)

Processor: Yes (intel)
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: Yes
Power Supply: Yes

Keyboard: No
Mouse: No
Headset: No
Speakers: No
Monitor(s): No
Operating System: No

Uses: High end gaming on a 22" (1680x1050), watching blu-rays (already have the drive)
Overclocking: No

 

[stokecity_m]

Budget - £1300



Processor: any
Motherboard:any
Memory:any
Graphics Card(s):any
TV Card:no
Hard Drive(s):at least 500gb
Optical Drive(s):hd/blue ray
Cooling:yes
Water Cooling:i'd rather not
Cable(s):internal
Sound Card:yes
Controller Card(s):er....no
Case:yes
Power Supply:yes

Keyboard:no
Mouse:no
Headset:no
Speakers:no
Monitor(s):no
Operating System:maybe

Uses:gaming and hd movies + web browing and other low performance things
Overclocking:maybe


Cheers

 

[Vidar]

BUDGET: £600 - £750

Processor: YES
Motherboard: YES
Memory: YES
Graphics Card(s): YES
TV Card: NO
Hard Drive(s): YES
Optical Drive(s): YES
Cooling: YES
Water Cooling: NO
Cable(s): YES
Sound Card: YES
Controller Card(s): NO
Case: YES
Power Supply: YES

Keyboard: NO
Mouse: NO
Headset: NO
Speakers: NO
Monitor(s): NO
Operating System: YES

Uses:
Overclocking: PERHAPS IF VIABLE

Will add upgrades to system within the next 6 months, ideally however would want it to start with Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 as the main back bone. Am prepared to do some overclocking if financially viable.

Thanks in advance for any help you guys can offer! I look forward to your ideas.

 

[topgun06]

BUDGET: £500 - £600

Processor: YES
Motherboard: YES
Memory: YES
Graphics Card: YES
TV Card: NO
Hard Drive(s): NO
Optical Drive(s): NO
Cooling: Maybe - suggestions please
Water Cooling: Would just need a CPU block, suggestions please
Cable(s): NO
Sound Card: NO
Controller Card(s): NO
Case: NO
Power Supply: NO

Keyboard: NO
Mouse: NO
Headset: NO
Speakers: NO
Monitor(s): NO
Operating System: NO

Uses:
Overclocking: YES

 

[l33-4]

topgun06

Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM £229.99

Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £180.54

XFX GeForce GTX 260 "Core 216 55nm" 896MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £148.34

Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Triple Channel (TR3X6G1333C9) £63.99


Sub Total : £541.61
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £82.67
Total : £633.78

??

 

[l33-4]

SKINHEAD

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £151.79

XFX GeForce GTX 260 "Core 216 55nm" 896MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £148.34

Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £116.14

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 32-Bit - SP3 - OEM (N09-02215) £74.74

Antec 300 Three Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - £50.59

Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £48.29

Samsung SpinPoint F2EG 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD502HI) £47.14

OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent ATX2 Power Supply £44.99

OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 Dual Channel (OCZ2G10664GK) £33.99

Samsung SH-S223Q/BEBN 22x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £20.99

Sub Total : £640.86
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £13.75
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £98.19
Total : £752.80

i wouldn't recommend the 8600 as it is nearly double the price of this one and is only 0.33ghz faster. You can overclock the hell out of this processor and will feel no different from the 8600 you suggested.

Not sure what sound card to recommend ?

 

[topgun06]

topgun06

Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM £229.99

Asus P6T SE Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £180.54

XFX GeForce GTX 260 "Core 216 55nm" 896MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £148.34

Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Triple Channel (TR3X6G1333C9) £63.99


Sub Total : £541.61
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.50
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £82.67
Total : £633.78

??

Thanks! Ill look into it, Ive done a bit of reading... magazines etc Just needed a few pointers.

 

[topgun06]

Hi does anyone know the main differences between the "P6T SE" mentioned in the spec above and the "P6T"? Thanks. I don't seem to be able to find much on the SE model.

 

[Amleto]

seems main difference is only p6t can do tri-sli

 

[Ashley Long]

BUDGET: £200-250ish

Processor: Yes
Motherboard: Yes
Memory: NO (8gb PC2-6400)
Graphics Card(s): No (ATI Radeon 4870 512mb)
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 (Antec 300)
Power Supply: No (Corsair 650W)

Keyboard: No
Mouse: No
Headset: No
Speakers: No
Monitor(s): No (Samsung 2343BW 2048x1152)
Operating System: No (Vista 64bit)

Uses: Gaming, programing, uni work etc
Overclocking: will be...

i have narrowed it down to a few processors and a few mobo's interested for some opinions on what ones...

a local shop is selling;
Intel Core2 Duo E8200 2.66Ghz 1333FSB @ £127.22
Intel E7300 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz 1066FSB @ £106
Intel Core2 Duo E6550 2.33 Ghz 1333 FSB @117.44

or from OCUK
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2.80GHz (1066FSB) @ £113.84
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz (1333FSB) @ £151.79

for the mobo i was thinking:
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45 @ £116.14 with one of the cheaper chips.
Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L Intel P43 @ £74.74 with one of the expensive chips.

And a,
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler @ £19.54

what im trying to decide is it worth buying a cheaper chip and the P5Q pro which is a good overclocking mobo and getting the best performance out of it or getting the cheaper board and a better chip. i will be looking to upgrade the processor to a quad core in a year or two.

Also is there any better cooler (within my budget)? i currently have the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro PWM CPU Cooler running on my AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+ which seems to be doing a good job atm (i will lose that when i sell my mobo and processor to my brother).

thanks for your help inadvance...

 

[Bhamid]

Sorry if this is really general, but I'm still fining my way around PC building so theres still a long way to go...

BUDGET: >£700

Processor: Lookin at the Phenom X3 Black or Intel Q8200
Motherboard: Don't have a clue, somewhere around £100
Memory: 4GB, preferrably DDR2 800 to keep costs down
Graphics Card(s): 9600 gt - 9800 gtx/250 gts preferrably nVidia and 55nm
TV Card: Nope
Hard Drive(s): HD103UI - 1TB Samsung HD103UI, EcoGreen F1 DT, SATA 3Gb/s HDD, 32MB Cache, 8.9 ms, NCQ
Optical Drive(s): Standard DVD-RW drive, no blu-ray
Cooling: Air, found a case with a 36cm fan
Water Cooling: nope
Cable(s): Do I need any? I thought they all came with the other components...
Sound Card: Integrated
Controller Card(s): What are they?
Case: Xclio Propeller Midi Tower Case with 36cm Quiet Fan on Side Pane w/o PSU
Power Supply: ~600W

Keyboard/Mouse : Logitech Wave
Headset: Nope
Speakers: Nope
Monitor(s): 22 inch, whatevers around
Operating System: Win7 RC1

Uses: Web browsing, maybe some image editing but mainly gaming
Overclocking: Maybe...

 

[Target Aquired.]

Hi Guys first time posting never built a computer in my life you lot seem like a friendly bunch hopefully you can help me out .

BUDGET:£400

Processorref.Intel or AMD.
Motherboard:Yes
Memory:4GB
Graphics Card(s):Optimum based on CPU + Budget (pref nVida).
TV Card:Nope
Hard Drive(s):Yes
Optical Drive(s):No will salvage from Dell Dimension 3100 would that work ?
Cooling:No intention of overclocking.
Water Cooling:No.
Cable(s)on't think I would need any?
Sound Card:If within the budget then yes .
Controller Card(s):If motherboard has PCI-E then yes if not i'll go for a PCI X16 anything PCI don't like USB wireless cards I find them unstable.
Case:Yes
Power Supply:Yes/Optimum
Keyboard:No
Mouse:No
Headset:No
Speakers:Yes
Monitor(s):19"


Uses:
FS2004/FSX (flight simulator) - medium high not too bothered. DVD's music.
Thanks guys .

 

[mdb08]

Hi Guys first time posting never built a computer in my life you lot seem like a friendly bunch hopefully you can help me out .

BUDGET:£400

Processorref.Intel or AMD.
Motherboard:Yes
Memory:4GB
Graphics Card(s):Optimum based on CPU + Budget (pref nVida).
TV Card:Nope
Hard Drive(s):Yes
Optical Drive(s):No will salvage from Dell Dimension 3100 would that work ?
Cooling:No intention of overclocking.
Water Cooling:No.
Cable(s)on't think I would need any?
Sound Card:If within the budget then yes .
Controller Card(s):If motherboard has PCI-E then yes if not i'll go for a PCI X16 anything PCI don't like USB wireless cards I find them unstable.
Case:Yes
Power Supply:Yes/Optimum
Keyboard:No
Mouse:No
Headset:No
Speakers:Yes
Monitor(s):19"


Uses:
FS2004/FSX (flight simulator) - medium high not too bothered. DVD's music.
Thanks guys .

i think for what youve stated youd be good choosing an AMD.