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My friend is about to buy this specification for a new PC, just wondering if everything was compatible before buying it:
Processor-Intel core 2 duo E6300
Motherboard-Msi p965NEO - Fi965 socket 775
Graphics card- X1950 pro
Ram- 1gb stick of DDR2 pc4200 (533) Corsair
PSu- Hiper 580w
Hardrive - Seagate 80gb SATA 2
DVD- Liteon dvdrw
Windows xp home
Case- Antec SLK3000B Black
This all comes to about £600 including delivery...Thanks for any help. john
80Gb is a bit small for a computer these days. I know you're going to tell me he's currently got a 30Gb drive and it's only 20% full.... ...but the future will demand even more hdd space. New cameras, MP3 players, software, etc etc all eat hard drives. A 160Gb drive would only be a few £ extra and would operate faster as well.
Check with someone else but if I'm right having only 1 stick of memory will affect performance. Either go for 2 x 512 or 1 x 1gb. Can someone corroborate this for me?
1GB(2x512mm) would be the better faster option for running in dual channel mode, also if one stick becomes faulty then you always have the other until you replace it. A single stick would only run single channel self explanitory really :)
Looks good, but as above would recommend a 200-300G hard drive (best bang for buck) and 2 x 1G of ram. Maybe just 1 x 1G for now and get another later? Vista is out next year and is supposed to be RAM hungry.
Ah cheers, will probably go with a 160gb hard drive and 2 x 512 sticks. Also, the last computer i put together was an old athlon xp, and i haven't really been keeping up since, especially with intel, is there anything to watch out for when setting up this core 2 duo system? Also will there be a need for a floppy disk drive to install sata drivers?Thanks John
just my thought of a 600 pound pc, altohugh it is 30 quid over... :/
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/2677/hghyl7.jpg
Is the gigabyte board simply better for overclocking, hence the extra £30 than the msi board i suggested which is £60?
You have priced up a E6300 OEM, but havent included a heatsink in the buy.. so he will be stuck. You may have added it but at a quick glance i cant see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jackvdbuk
OEM - NO HEATSINK so you will need to get one.. probly £17 for an Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro is the best way to go for a budget.
oh sorry about that! well the d3 is alot more popular and (imo) more overclockable
(edit) add 3 quid for the RETAIL e6300 which was 113.96 on scan on today only/ shop offers
You don't need a floppy drive. Ever.
Also Scan have been out of stock of the S12-430 for ages now. I think Seasonic aren't making them anymore. Probably best to go for the 500W model.
Looks good otherwise. I have the DS3, it's a good board generally, can recommend it.
Arctic Cooling Freezer is good value for money for a heatsink, and will be better than the stock cooler - worth the extra £6.
I would put an image but only just started posting here.
I am looking to upgrade my PC from the dark ages soon.
I idealy was looking to spend about 600-800 quid... but as you can see from the list below I'm stuggling :) this is all I am after I have all the other odds and sods it is just my core I am upgrading.
Can any one advise me on what if anything I could "skimp" a bit more on with out losing the ability to play things like Oblivion in high resolutions with sensible frame rates.
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Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache, Retail £207.14
MSI 975X Platinum P.U Edition i975X, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667/800, SATA II, SATA/IDE RAID, ATX £121.25
512MB HighTech Radeon X1950XTX, PCI-E(x16), Mem 2000MHz GDDR4, GPU 650MHz, 48Pipes, VIVO £281.99
Zalman CNPS9500-AT Intel LGA775 Aero Flower Cooler £32.30
2Gb (2X1Gb) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP £199.74
400 Gb Seagate ST3400620AS Barracuda 7200.10, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.5 ms, NCQ £101.39
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Thanks,
chris