New System – First Draft

[Rookie1986]

New System – First Draft…

Motherboard:
EVGA 123-YW-E175-A1, NF750i SLI ForTheWin, 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 1066/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX - £117.32

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo, E8400, Wolfdale Core, S775, 3.0 GHz, 1333MHz, 6MB Cache - £99.89

Power Supply:
650W TX Corsair PSU, single 12V rail, energy efficient, quiet & cool, fully compatible, 5yr warranty - £56.89

Memory:
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, DHX - £54.95

Hard Drive:
320 GB Western Digital WD3200AAKS Caviar Blue, SATA 300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms - £33.00

Graphics Card Option 1:
1GB Gainward GTX 280, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), Mem 2214MHz, GDDR3, GPU 602MHz, 240 Cores, 2x DL DVI-I/HDTV - £209.79

Graphics Card Option 2:
512MB XFX 9800GT XXX, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), 1800MHz GDDR3, GPU 670MHz, 112 Cores, 2xDL DVI-I/ HDTV - £96.99 x2 = £193.98

Optical Drive:
Samsung SH-D163 Black, 48x CD-ROM 16x DVD-ROM, SATA, OEM - £8.99

Case:
I’m a little stuck on what case to go with but I’m sure you guys will be able to give me a hand with that.

Monitor:
20.1" Asus VW202SR, Black, Widescreen, 5 ms, 1680x1050, 3000:1, Speakers - £119.29

Total Price Including Shipping and VAT = £832.58

Right so I think that’s everything, so basically would it all work together, is there anything missing, what would you change (if anything), remember my new budget is £1000 so feel free to play about with it and spend the rest of my money where it’s needed,

Looking forward to your replies!

/Rookie

[poolcue]

A 500W PSU will struggle with a GTX 280. I'd recommend a 650W as a minimum. My vote for a case would be the CM-690, it's roomy, understated and has lots of fannage (!).

[circuitmonkey]

Hi Rookie,

Looks like that start of a very nice system you've got there, couple of pointers though;
If it where my build, I'd go for a motherboard with an Intel chipset (P35,45,X38,X48 - my personal preference being with a board from ASUS) as in my experience they are more reliable than their Nvidia counterparts.
That said this means that you won't be able to go for an SLI solution so would only be able to run a single GTX 280.
This is something which I would recommend over dual 9800's in an SLI setup anyways. Although the idea of an SLI setup is pretty cool, they have plenty of problems and your overall performance will be better across the board with a single GPU and the 280 is a beast of a card!
You can always team up a 9000 series geforce with the 280 on a x38 or x48 board and off load the physics processing onto the smaller card which would boost you performance, but only in certain compatible games.

Just my point of view though

CM

[Rookie1986]

A 500W PSU will struggle with a GTX 280. I'd recommend a 650W as a minimum. My vote for a case would be the CM-690, it's roomy, understated and has lots of fannage (!).

Yeah i just noticed, its suppose to say "650w" i just missed the 6 off

[shaithis]

nVidias recent announcement means that SLI motherboards shouldn't be needed soon anyway as they are planning to software enable SLI.

[DratUK]

Well If it was my money I would change the board to a P45 or P35 and go for the 280.
Nvidia chips still run too hot and still expensive.
If you go for the 280 which is a far more sensible solution rather than SLi then you wont need an SLi board.

Something like this
Asus P5Q-E £107.72 inc Vat

Same 280 £246.50 inc Vat

Seagate 500Gb 32Mb cache £43.44

same ram £65.38

Case kinda big well its huge but great cooling Sharkoon Rebel 12 £66.96

same Corsair PSU good choice £66.85

And the same CPU £117.37

Some sensible CPU Cooling Xigmatek 120 £22.27

Your budget was a £1000, I assume that includes Vat?

I would invest in a 22 inch widescreen something like the Viewsonic VX2262wm

That brings the total to £926 inc vat and carriage

or you could go with a 24 inch Acer AL2416WB

That would bring the total to £958.17 inc Vat and Carriage

[menthel]

If this is just for warhammer online as poer your other thread then you really don't need a GTX 280, it is not graphically that challenging. My old 8800gts 640mb handles it at 22" resolutions on max. Grab something like a ATI 4850 or a nv 9800 instead and save yourself a few bob.

[crazyfool]

unless you want sli then i agree with DratUK as the p5q is a very nice motherboard and probably more reliable then a nvidia board. For the case the cm-690 is excellent however i'm not sure of the measurements of the 280 but i have an 8800gt in mine so if its that size then it will fit nicely
Also tho a 280 is overkill for a 20 inch screen so you could spend a bit more on the screen and go for a 22 or even 24... apart from that your gonna have a beast of a machine