Woooo Hooooo another spec me up thread !

duc999 · 14 Feb 2006 at 08:15

Guys ,

I need your advice please . I work away from home and rather than buy another desktop replacement laptop I have decided to build a new rig from scratch , including case. I will be using it for work stuff , mainly office applications , gaming , BF2 , FEAR , Q4 so a decent graphics card and monitor will be needed. It will also need to be QUIET

Not that bothered about CD / DVD drives , keyboards and mice got lots of them

CASE :
PSU :
MOBO :
RAM :
CPU :
COOLING :
GRAPHICS :
HARD DRIVE :
MONITOR :

Anything else :

I set a budget of around £1000 (or over

) for this , so rack ya brains and do your worst

Let me know if you need anymore info ! :cool:

n3x · 14 Feb 2006 at 08:39

Thats how i would spent a grand if i had 1 to spare

actually i'd use my current tft and get an 165 opteron

duc999 · 14 Feb 2006 at 09:23

Mmmmmm looking luverly

Whats the most powerful CPU I can fit into that board ? I have only ever had ASUS Intel boards and am pretty ignorant of AMD chips

I may shell out for a 7800GTX as well as I can claim back the VAT so thats not an option in the overall price

I do miss my 24" Dell , which is at home

n3x · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:02

any socket 939 will fit so u could get an fx-60 but thats abit over your budget i think

any other dual core is good and if ** overclocking u could try out the opterons (170).

No VAT eh? Do you wanna buy a few things for me?

semi-pro waster · 14 Feb 2006 at 11:13

Since you get to ignore the Vat I'd go for something like this and overclock, you have the fastest single graphics card out, a CPU which ought to overclock brilliantly with 2mb L2 cache, 2gb of good Ram and pretty good sundry components. If you can't go above £1,000 at all then you could get the X1900XT and save a bit of cash.

MO-016-NV Neovo F-419 19" LCD Monitor - Black/Grey (MO-016-NV)
£159.95 £159.95
CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN)
£65.50 £65.50
GX-046-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3055) (GX-046-CO)
£329.95 £329.95
MB-129-AS Asus A8R-MVP Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-129-AS)
£69.95 £69.95
MY-006-MK Mushkin 2GB DDR EM3200 Enhanced Performance Dual Channel Kit (2x1GB) CAS3 (991461) (MY-006-MK)
£119.95 £119.95
HD-056-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 NCQ 200GB ST3200827AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-056-SE)
£58.95 £58.95
CP-151-AM AMD Opteron UP 165 Dual Core San Diego 1.8GHz 2MB Cache (Socket 939) - Retail (CP-151-AM)
£229.95 £229.95
Subtotal £1,034.20
VAT £180.99
Total £1,215.19

duc999 · 14 Feb 2006 at 12:52

Cheers guys some great options

Will the PSU in the Sonata handle this lot plus DVD/RW and USB hubs ? I was thinking of Akasa Eclipse and a Seasonic 600W ? Yeah I know it limits the budget but I can stretch to £1500

I heard rumblings about Nvidia releasing a 7900 ? I take it this isn't on the radar yet ? The reason I ask about nvidia isn't cos I don't like ATI and the X1900XT is currently the quickest GPU but I read issues about the crossfire motherboards not quite 'maturing' yet ?

Thanks again guys , credit card is getting warm ;-)

trojan698 · 14 Feb 2006 at 14:30

I'd go for the x1900 route if I were you

n3x · 14 Feb 2006 at 14:44

ive always been an nvidia fanboy but i hear great things about the 1900 so give it some serious consideration if uve got that kinda money to throw around!

I think i heard something about the new nvidia cards coming out in march but who knows! and they're bound to be well overpriced on release so no point waiting for them really.

The seasonics are supposed to be the best but im sure a decent 450/500w psu would handle the setup u want