Well for christmas, i have roughly £500 to spend on a new system, im a gamer, mostly MassiveMultiplayerOnlineGames (MMORPG's)so the recomended specs on the back of there boxes never really mean anything, and ofcourse the occasional FirstPersonShooter.
My current PC specs are under my name to the left <<, its a four year old system which has only had the gfx card upgraded in the 4 years. Getting a bit old now, so new system it is, ive had a look at the prices and heres what ive dug out.
Before i go into it and you all reply, heres some information about my general knowledge of PC's etc. This will be the first system ive ever built, ive had a read over many sites explaining exactly how to do it, and printed off one for when the time comes. Im no expert at most things, overclocking i have no clue at all on, cooling is something im pretty clueless about as well.
Here i go, im going to be buying off of EBuyer as it appears to be the cheapest UK site, if you know a better site, feel free to say .
PCICASE CS2600-SL Hyperline II Silver ATX Tower Case - No PSU
Gigabyte GA-K8N Pro-SLI SKT939 NF4 SLI SATA USB2.0 retail
AMD (Venice) Athlon 64Bit 3200+ Socket 939pin 512k L2cache 90nm Retail Boxed Processor
Xfx GeForce 6600GT PCI-E 128MB DDR3 TV+Dual DVI
Kingston 1GB DDR PC3200 400MHz Non-ECC CL3 (3-3-3) 184pin DIMM's (Kit of 2 x 512mb)
Western Digital WD1200JS Caviar SE 120GB 7200RPM SATA2/300 8MB Cache - OEM
Antec PSU True Blue 480w Blue Led Fan
Ebuyer Extra Value System Exhaust Blower Fan
80mm blue case cooling fan (sleeve bearing)3 Of these
Ebuyer Extra Value Fan Filter In Blue 3 Of These
And finally an Anti-Static Wrist Band for safety when building.
All of this comes to around, £424 + £74 VAT + £6 p&p, so £500.
Here comes my questions.
Is this a good system for the money im paying, is there any changes i should make to it?
Will the harddrive being OEM be a problem, will i be short any cables?
In this pc i have a 60gb harddrive, if i connected this as a slave drive would there be any problems starting up as this has a version of windows xp + all installed hardware and software of this pc, should i format/parition it before putting it in the new PC.
Will the cooling fans etc be suffeciant to cool the system if its not overclocked?
I have a soundcard in this pc, but its pretty old now, will the onboard sound be good enough to beat this old soundcard?
How long would this CPU be expected to last non overclocked? Im thinking of overclocking a bit, but would need to know the CPU would last atleast 4 years.
Can u overclock gfx cards and ram, im sure i read you could, if so how long would they last if overclocked.
I read that most fans just circulate the air inside the case, not really cooling it much, is it possible to have some fans blowing cold air in, and others taking hot air out? After reading this i ordered the System Exhaust Blower.
Any good reads on overclocking anywhere?
Thanks.