Another one of these threads

[ElCapitan]

Hello loyal Hexus users!
I am building a PC for the first time and the specs are as follows,

Intel CPU Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 G0 £164.49

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro £15.92

Asus P5K-E/WIFI-AP Intel P35 £95.12

Crucial Ballistix (2x1GB) Memory DDR2 PC2-6400 4-4-4-12 £54.76

XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB DDR3 (Vanilla) £191.76

160GB Samsung SATA II 300 7200rpm 8mb £31.26

NEC Optiarc SATA Black 18x DVD ±RW/RAM £18.38

Antec P182 Black £80.43

OCZ StealthXStream 600W PSU £47.58


Total £699.70

Please tell me if anything doesn't look right and any suggestions are welcome. Also all ordered off microdirect, reliable store ?

Thanks
Sam

[Salazaar]

Are you overclocking it? If so you could do with a meatier heat sink.

[excalibur2]

160g hard disk.............Bit mean, I'm filling up my 250gig one fast.

[ElCapitan]

Only light overclocking
CPU@3Ghz

[ElCapitan]

Fair enough, I'll probably get 250gb, seagate barracuda has 16mb cache

[excalibur2]

Only light overclocking
CPU@3Ghz

Great system and just giving you ideas like:-


Happy with a mild overclock then save a few £££'s with Geil, special offer at:-

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)

[ElCapitan]

Thanks, looks pretty good and will let me get a bigger hard without passing £700

[ElCapitan]

Experience with microdirect?

[ElCapitan]

And views on the P5KC as thinking of getting this.

[staffsMike]

Few personal preference's of mine would be.

Corsair VX 450w PSU or thoroughly recommend the 520 HX (£60ish though)

I really would get a modular PSU in that case. Makes thing's a lot easier having done 3 builds with them now. One with my OCZ gameXstream and two with the corsair HX..was a lot neater and easier to work with the HX.. plus it's noticably quieter.

The scythe ninja. £10 or so more than the Freezer Pro, but the freezer is quite noisey in the Antec P182 I find (have tried it)

Deffinatly the geil RAM from above. It's great stuff and a bargain price.

All these are just my preferences which lean towards quiet/silent PC's, if it's not an issue all your choices are fine.

[excalibur2]

Experience with microdirect?

Well scan are one of the best and you can talk to them at Hexus with any problems, but sometimes some components are on special offer elsewhere and.......................
If you manage to get 25 posts you can apply to get free delivery.

[ElCapitan]

Cheers Staffsmike
Question, does the corsair have 2 PCI-E connectors?

[ElCapitan]

excalibur2,
think I will go with scan, time to start posting!

[staffsMike]

It does indeed. Comes with 2x 6 pin connectors which have an extra 2 pins sort of joined on the end so you have 2 x 8 or 6 pin in effect.

[excalibur2]

excalibur2,
think I will go with scan, time to start posting!

well you've saved £1.50 on your AFP7 straight away..................:-)

Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

[spiral out]

Just did a build with the p5k-e motherboard and q6600 and can recommend the RAM and PSU that staffsmike recommends as i am using the same.