Yet another new rig !!!

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 15:13

Hi all

Right I am a newbie here and this will be my first ever PC build. In the past I have had people build me PCs to their recommendations, and now my current PC is about 6 years old and starting to play up. So I thought I would take a leap into the dark side and have a go myself !!! :eek:

Any advice is much apprecaited, and if there is anyhting I have missed please let me know.

Samsung spinpoit T166 HD501LJ
Crucial Ballistix 2gb kit 12864AA804
Asus en8800GT
Arctic cooling freezer 7 pro
Gigabyte GA P35 DS3P
Antec trupower trio TP650
Antec P182 case
Core 2 quad Q6600 G0

Thank you for reading this request and Happy New Year :cool:

George

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 16:09

Thanks Danman

I have been reading several mags and visting many forums, listening/reading to other peoples builds/recommendations. I must admit that this site is one of the best I have seen and there also seems to be a lot of advice being given.

May I ask why you make those recommendations?

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 16:23

Danman

Ok taking your advice on board (thank you)

How do you mean modular re PSU??
geil v crucial, how good is geil RMA v crucials as this was a deciding factor?
HDD I always prefered Seagate myself, I was going along with CustomPC on this one, and are seagate & western pretty much the same??? and what made you choose the HDD you have, size, read/write, warranty??

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 16:54

Great I like a tidy PC and you have changed my mind with that one (THX) I did notice that many people use corsair PSUs whilst looking at the "Case" forum.
Hmm you have thrown a spanner in the HDD dept !!! Looks like I will need to think about this one and do some homework.
One final question re RAM, which geil kit do you recommend?
Once again thank you Danman2K, your a gentleman !!!

Does anyone else wish to enter any comments/suggestions???

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:02

Damn at that price it is a bargain !!!!!!! and then I could invest in a better component elsewhere.

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:15

Venares/ Danman

I notice that both of you have 4gb in your PCs, what OS are you running? as I thought Windows only recognises 3.5gb max?

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:19

Venares said:
Vista 64 m8.
Not to mention Vista is a total ram hog.

How do you mean?? Sorry for being ignorant but used to XP for so long :rolleyes:

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:29

Venares said:
Vista eats memory for breakfast.
I'm using 1Gb atm, and that just typing this.
Throw a memory heavy game on top of that with only 2Gb and you'll have disk swapping which will cause games to lag horribly.

Ok now I understand, but why use Vista 64 as oppose to XP Pro that I take is not RAM hungry?? is it just for the 64bit as oppose to 32 bit? and perhaps I should throw more memory as you say it is cheap enough at the moment.

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:32

oops forgot about this question fit 4gb by 4x1gb or 2x2gb??

JoeDredd · 31 Dec 2007 at 17:56

Thanks Venares :-)

JoeDredd · 7 Jan 2008 at 18:44

HI Guys

Update on my build; I have just bought an Acer 22 inch monitor. Would it be worthwhile changing the graphics card that I have chosen to something better???