Finish my Spec off

[P.Jackson]

Hell scan users!

Well currently im looking to upgrade my PC

AMD64 4000
BFG 7800GTX
2GiG Ram etc etc

Heres what i have so far


Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB

768Mb BFG Tech 8800GTX PCI-E(x16)

EVGA 122-CK-NF68 NF680i SLI, S775, PCI-E (x16)

150 Gb Western Digital WD1500AHFD Raptor X, SATA150, 10000 rpm, 16MB Cache, 4.6 ms, NCQ

Basically i think ill just flog my whole custom made pc so i will need everything again Memory , Monitor etc any chaps wanna help me out?

[chrisg22]

Got a price range to work with?

[MrLOL]

Basically i think ill just flog my whole custom made pc so i will need everything again Memory , Monitor etc any chaps wanna help me out?

theres no point in doing that

just upgrade the motherboard , cpu, graphics and memory. They are the core of the system and will totally define its performance. Anything else is changing things for the sake of it, unless your unhappy with your current sound card or case etc..

[P.Jackson]

Well im going to be selling my PC as a full system so most parts will need renewed as for a budget really anything but no to over the top

Would like a nice decent case tho but a light weight one the silverstone one i have at the moment ways a tonne

[Bloggz]

I was playing with some specs yesterday and came up with this:

LN11326 SilverStone 'SUGO' Evolution SG01B Black Aluminium SFF Case £87.53
LN15447 Asus P5LD2VM-DH/C, uATX £78.48
LN15049 Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 £211.49
LN16496 2Gb(2X1Gb) CorsairTwinX XMS2 Dominator £218.14
LN16578 640Mb XFX 8800GTS PCI-E £364.11
LN11461 250 Gb Samsung SP2504C SpinPoint P120 (x2) £100.72
LN11321 480w Tagan TG480-U15 PSU £64.63


Net Total £957.52
Carriage £11.75
V.A.T. £169.62
TOTAL £1,138.89

Small and powerful

I have 2 of those mobos with core 2 duos in and they are great, aswell as the samsung spinpoints, quiet and fast.

Can't comment on the Geforce, but XFX are excellent and the GTS is smaller / less power hungry but still packs one hell of punch

Just my 2 pennies.

[P.Jackson]

hmm not really the kinda case i want , Also was thinking more of putting araptor 150 in as a primary h/d

[P.Jackson]

any tech heads?

[Acidmax]

Go all out in the HD's then, 2 Raptors in RAID! Get those CAS4 Corsair ram sticks...

Now case and PSU i have no idea, its more up to you! Although the Silverstone (is it?) TJ 09 is nice!

[Bloggz]

Yea Raptors are nice, but the price difference doesn't justify the gain for me

1x Raptor = £154/165
2x Spinpoints RAID 0 = £100

Scale that up to 2 raptors and your talking about 300% the cost for a 5-10% gain? + losing 200Gb in space

Less you've got the spare cash, in which case, go nuts

[Bloggz]

Tom's Hardware HDD Performance charts: http://tomshardware.co.uk/storage/charts.html

[P.Jackson]

i currently havr the TJ-09 case altho its nice its so big and heavy to move about and as i attend lans it just don't seem right altho i can manage it easily

[Bloggz]

That's a big case

I've got an Akasa Eclipse-62, the wheels are a god-send