New PC £800 budget

[dkmech]

Or maybe it should be http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145751 which is a lot cheaper! Am looking at list of features at the moment

[staffsMike]

Thats the basic board but if offers the bulk of things you would want

I'd probably split the difference of that board and the more expensive ones as I seem to reemember that basic one missing out a few nice touches like eSATA might be wrong though.

[dkmech]

At the moment I am leaning towards just getting the deluxe for the sake of not worrying my pretty little head about not getting a feature i'd sorely regret.

However I am also torn between waiting for more single platter drives to come in stock (which may also coincide with 4870 release).

Am keeping an eye on ebuyer's stock of 4850s while I wait though.

[dkmech]

All ordered.

(Hard drives and G-card on preorder mind, went for 4870 in the end).

Coolermaster CM 690 (bugger to find)
Corsair 620 W HX PSU
4gb Corsair 4-4-4-12
Q6600
Scythe Ninja Copper Special Edition
Asus P5Q Deluxe (p45)
Sapphire HD4870
2x samsung f1 320gb single platter drives
Windows Vista 64 home premium
Sony dvd drive.

About 850 with vista, about 790 without - on budget! How I managed that we'll never know. Thanks ATI for releasing the cards though!

Will let you know how I get on when it all treacles through.

[Noxvayl]

All ordered.

(Hard drives and G-card on preorder mind, went for 4870 in the end).

Coolermaster CM 690 (bugger to find)
Corsair 620 W HX PSU
4gb Corsair 4-4-4-12
Q6600
Scythe Ninja Copper Special Edition
Asus P5Q Deluxe (p45)
Sapphire HD4870
2x samsung f1 320gb single platter drives
Windows Vista 64 home premium
Sony dvd drive.

About 850 with vista, about 790 without - on budget! How I managed that we'll never know. Thanks ATI for releasing the cards though!

Will let you know how I get on when it all treacles through.

Very good system m8... be good to hear how well it goes. No doubt that HD4870 will server you very well for a LONG time As will the other components mind you

[dkmech]

Thing is the monitor is only 1280*1024 - so everything will have to be played with all the bells and whistles on!

[dkmech]

I've got:
Corsair 620 W HX PSU
4gb Corsair 4-4-4-12
Q6600
Scythe Ninja Copper Special Edition
Asus P5Q Deluxe (p45)
Windows Vista 64 home premium
Sony dvd drive.

piled up in the corner waiting for the rest of the bits. That heat sink is not small! I reckon in 5 years time I weigh it in for copper and buy me a new pc from the proceeds. Case is making its way through the alternative universe that is parcelforce. GPU and HDDs on preorder still.

At least when case gets here tomorrow I can stick the pile into it and then turn it on and listen to it beep angrily at the lack of gpu

[Eddd]

I've got:
Corsair 620 W HX PSU
4gb Corsair 4-4-4-12
Q6600
Scythe Ninja Copper Special Edition
Asus P5Q Deluxe (p45)
Windows Vista 64 home premium
Sony dvd drive.

piled up in the corner waiting for the rest of the bits. That heat sink is not small! I reckon in 5 years time I weigh it in for copper and buy me a new pc from the proceeds. Case is making its way through the alternative universe that is parcelforce. GPU and HDDs on preorder still.

At least when case gets here tomorrow I can stick the pile into it and then turn it on and listen to it beep angrily at the lack of gpu

Looks like a very good build. Be sure to post some pictures up.

[staffsMike]

That's a very nice PC dude. The ninja is a bit large isn't it All copper one is a nice touch, could probably run it passive in that case but the fan it comes with is so nice it would seem a shame lol

[dkmech]

I am gonna clock it a bit, so fan will most likely be required. Might need to buy some more case fans too.

[staffsMike]

I've seen a video review of a Q6600 @ 3.4 under a passive copper ninja

I'd work on the bottom to top airflow idea, should work nicely.

[dkmech]

Well, I dug out a spare hdd and borrowed a gpu and built it. Trying to install vista, but hdd not being detected too well. And omg is vista slow to do anything during install. I took hdd out of a bigpockets tv-hdd recorder thingy, wonder if funny formatting should affect it.

[dkmech]

Power connector fell out on hdd. Doh

[dkmech]

Yay, Vista installed. Fiddling with cpu-z, orthos and coretemp now. Might just clock it...

[staffsMike]

Thats the spirit lol

[dkmech]

3159ghz at 57 degrees on 2 loaded cores and 38-42 on two idle ones. - "cpu" temp 52 degrees