Hi all hope someone can help I'm looking to build a decent spec pc for Games here's what I've outlined below, could someone give me some pointers as I don't know enough about them really. Thanks in advance
Budget really is £1500 quid I could save by only getting 1GIG of Ram so lose £118, and I could also drop the Raptor drive so and just have a big standard one normal speed one.
Really don't know bout the graphics card though, wouldn't want to spend anymore than £300 quid.
Case
Evesham iQ-eye Silver Alumininum case £74
must have front usb's for my internet and joysticks or have loads at the back.
Processor
AMD Athlon 64 3800+Socket 939 / 2400MHz512KB L2 Cache £253
I've seen some processors that are 90nm and some that are 130nm what is this and whats the best ?
Motherboard
Asus A8N SLI DeluxeHyperTransport / DDR400nForce4 Ultra SLI chipset PCI-Express - SLI ready £113
PSU
Tagan TG480-U01 480W ATX2.0 SLi Compliant Silent PSU (CA-000-TG) £64
Heat Sink
ThermalRight XP-90 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-018-TR) £25
Hard Drives
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000RPM SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-015-WD) (Games HD) £123
300Gb Maxtor DiamondMax 10 7,200RPM / 16MB Buffer (Other HD) £119
Looking to install WIN XP pro and the WIN XP64 bit, which drive should I install them both to ?
Whats a Raid is this something I should set up, I don't know the advantages or disadvantages.
Ram
Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200XL Platinum TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2 (MY-049-CS) x2 for 2GIG TOTAL = £236
1 GIG Total is £118
should I go for 2GIG of Ram or leave it at 1GIG for now.
Graphics Card
Haven't got a clue, would like a top of the range taking advantage of PCI express etc but don't know if I should go for
Nvidia or ATI, always had Nvidia in the past.
Sound Card
Do I need one or should I just use the onboard sound that comes with the mobo, eventually I'll be getting surround sound
speakers ?
Monitor
Benq FP71E+ 17" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black (MO-006-BQ) £205
Benq FP91E 19" LCD Monitor - Silver (MO-011-BQ) £331
Hyundai Imagequest L72D+ 17" LCD Monitor - Silver/Black (MO-022-HY) £213
not sure which to go for really, is 19" bettet than 17" when it comes to TFTs ?
budget really is £1500 quid I could save by only getting 1GIG of Ram so lose £118, and I could also drop the Raptor drive
so and just have a big standard one normal speed one.
Really don't know bout the graphics card though, wouldn't want to spend anymore than £300 quid.