Will all this work together?

Barbie

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Asus Vintage V3-M2V890 Barebones System - AMD Socket AM2

Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x512MB)

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A33423)

Sony Floppy Drive - Black

NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4600+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2)

EVGA GeForce 7950 GT Superclocked 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) .


Don't need an OS, monitor, keyboard or any of those gubbins, just need to check that i've not missed anything silly off the list. It'll have all the cables and discs needed to get an OS onto it won't it? Been a long time since i did a self build, last one i did was an original Pentium 120 :)

Cheers :)
 
That should all be fine.

If you're not totally stuck on that Asus Barebones then I'd definitely go for Core 2 Duo!
 
I'm not fussed either way, i'll have a play and see if i can do a C2D version for around the same money.
 
Also, the PSU in there is really not enough!

Any reason you want the barebones system? It'd be a lot better to use a seperate motherboard/case/power supply. You can choose quality components that suit your price range that way :)

Will you be overclocking at all?
 
If i can eek a few extra megahurtz out of it, then great, but again i'm not fussed.

Not bothered about the barebones either, just seemed an easy way of specing it up.

Got to be under £450 though :\
 
Reason I asked about overclocking is that if you get a Core 2 Duo and don't clock it then it'll be around the same performance as that AMD chip. If you overclock it however it'll rip the pants off it in every way imaginable :p

I take it it's going to be a gaming machine? What resolution playing at?

I'll *try* to work something out for under £450 now.
 
As another option here is a Core2Duo for just a shade over the £450 and it should allow some overclocking. I'd probably drop the floppy drive since I don't use them much now but there is no great harm for £5 I suppose.

Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £94.99
(£111.61) £94.99
(£111.61)
Sony Floppy Drive - Black £4.99
(£5.86) £4.99
(£5.86)
Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
OcUK 1GB (2x512MB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £37.99
(£44.64) £37.99
(£44.64)
Antec NSK4400 Mini Tower Case - 380W SmartPower PSU £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A33423) £36.99
(£43.46) £36.99
(£43.46)
Liteon DVD-8900 16x DVD±RW/RAM (Black) - OEM £13.99
(£16.44) £13.99
(£16.44)
Sub Total : £383.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.95
Vat : £69.10
Total : £463.97
 
Looks good :) I've been given £450 for a new computer, so i don't mind spending the extra few pennies if it goes over.

I thought a floppy drive was needed to install SATA drivers when putting your OS on ?
 
Barbie said:
I thought a floppy drive was needed to install SATA drivers when putting your OS on ?
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It depends on how the motherboard manufacturer has implemented the SATA controller but unless you want to Raid the drives you generally don't need a floppy drive any more. The S3 is fine without additional SATA drivers anyway. :)
 
Looks like you've got OCUK a sale there then :) Not till next sunday when i can get home to the credit card though.
 
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