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Old 29-03-2008, 03:09 PM   #8 (permalink)
jakc
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Smile Re: Buying advice - new rig

ok, then ill skip off the x-fi soundcard. Id like to keep my front panel from my Audigy 2zs pro anyhow, so ill compare the onboard vs my old card.

Having a few issues configuring the system - not getting some products as choices - might have to change these on phone. However heres what I got now:

Antec P182 Gun Metal Black Case
Corsair 620W HX Series Modular SLi Powersupply, ATX, EPS 12V, whisper quiet, 5 year warranty
Abit IX38 QuadGT Socket 775, Dual DDR2, SATA Raid, IEEE 1394, HD 7.1, Vista HW Ready Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600, S775, 2.40 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 8MB Cache CPU - Retail - G0 Stepping
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler Intel Celeron (Skt 775), Intel P4(Skt 775), Intel Pentium D
Corsair 4GB Kit (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400 800MHZ DDR2 Memory
Seagate 400GB 7200RPM 16MB SATA 2 Hard Disk Drive
Samsung 20x SATA Lightscribe DVDRW Dual Layer Black
XFX Geforce 8800GT Alpha Dog Edition 512MB PCI-E, DDR3, Dual DVI, HDTV, Vista Ready Graphics Card
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD

The Alpha Dog was only 512mb card I could choose under configure.
With "Configuring the Product" & "Configuring the Operating System", im looking at £933 (inc VAT)

Everytime i open up a PC I end up breaking something, therefore I def want YoYo to build it. However whats "Configure the OS" actually mean? Install Vista from the DVD? I might opt out of this as Im likely to make it either dual boot with XP 32bit or triple boot with Ubuntu as well.

If you see anything on the list above that does not look right (goes against your advice given) please say so.
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