A Final System Review

[r3morse]

Hi,

I'd just like a final opinion of a system I hope to build shortly. I'm looking for a nice stable system that runs windows 7.

• Asus M4A79-T Deluxe - £127.94
• AMD Phenom II X4 955 BlackEdition - £145.92
• 1GB XFX HD 4890 Black - £183.40
• 625W Enermax MODU82+ EMD625AWT - £92.97
• OCZ 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz/PC3-10666 Gold Dual Channel CL 9-9-9-26 - £55.06

I have a case, monitor and all the rest. The above are the only components I'm ordering.

Mainly, does the RAM work well with the motherboard & cpu? It's on the QVL so I would assume so... If there is something better and/or faster then I'd love a recommendation.

Ideally everything totals sub £700.

[Phage]

That looks like a killer system to me. Top performing kit for the price.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

If you do not want crossfire then get the following motherboard:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/GIGAB...770T-UD3P-MOBO

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782

You may want to consider these AM3 790FX based motherboards too:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/MSI-AM3-MOBO-790FX-GD70

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Gigab...-SATA-RAID-ATX

The MSI motherboard seems to have the best reviews AFAIK. I would have a quick scoot around the reviews to make sure though. I believe the MSI motherboards has 5 phase power and the others have 8 phase power although I could be wrong.

Here are some reviews from bit-tech of each motherboard:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...i-790fx-gd70/1

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...-ud5p-review/1

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/mot...eluxe-review/1

[ajones]

I've seen a lot of folks going banzai on the RAM front. I'm wondering whether going bananas with the RAM would be worth it?

[r3morse]

Thanks for the points on the motherboard CAT, I don't think I will use crossfire so I'll have a look at those reviews.