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Ok how about this then:
ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
Intel E4400 Socket 775 2×2.00GHz 800MHz FSB 2MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-12) Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty
EVGA 8600GT Superclocked 256MB GDDR3 DVI HDTV out PCI-E Graphics Card
Western Digital WD5000AAKS 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB Cache – OEM
Cart Total: £321.78 (£378.12 Inv Vat)
bloddy hell lol. 600watts is not enough lol. Well I am probably going to get a GF8600GT which can take all of its power from the PCI-E slot so my current psu should be ok. Also I only bought the new psu earlier this year lol so dont want to have to change it that quick
Thanks guys for your advice.
Yeah the reason i am thinking about this as I went and got a socket 478 m/b you see and they didnt last long before the socket 775 took over and thus no pci-e 478 m/b and so on, so yeah really it was the m/b choice that is costing me the money lol.
I currently have an Asus motherboard in both my games pc and my media pc and both are excellent, better than any of the other boards I have had and never gone wrong. So I agree with that.
I was looking at getting the Asus P5B m/b to start with which is the P965 one.
But then also saw the Asus P5K which uses the new P35 chipset.
I think I will stick with DDR2 ram for now since its cheaper, but I think you can buy a P35 m/b which will take both DDR2 and DDR3 so the upgrade option is there?
I am not interested in the quad core’s just now and they are expensive. I have read alot of good stuff about the E4400 chips in being able to overclock them rediculusly (2.0ghz up to 3.5ghz in some cases), but lack 2mb of cache.
My friend is building as in experiment as he loves messing around with electronics and electrical stuff (teaches it at college) a water cooling system for his pc to remove the heatsink and fans from his pc. BUT lol the radiator he has got for £15 off ebay is out of a car and will be mounted outside lol, so the cooling potiential will be crazy! lol. got a water pump also that can do 12 litres a min and bought 30mtrs of hose to connect it up with. Finally got a nice big bit of machined metal to drill the tunnel for the water to go through into and just need to attach a mounting mechanism to the bit of metal to fasten it to the motherboard. All in all will have cost about £50 to build this. looking forward to see the end result.
I already upgraded my PSU to a 600watt one with 36amps on the 12 volt rail as I was going to buy a AGP Radeon X1950Pro originally lol. It has the 6 pin pci-e pwr plug and SATA pwr plugs too which my old 300watt psu didnt have.
On the graphics side. I do fancy one of those nice Geforce 8800GTS’s but think it will be too expensive now unless I skimp on the other components.
Despite the 8800 being twice as fast as the 8600, the 8600 is alot faster than a 6800 I believe and the 6800 is twice as fast as my Radeon 9800. So I guess any of these new cards should be good to replace mine so I can play the likes of COD4, Crysis, ET: Quake Wars, Bioshock etc etc.Thanks a lot.
Yeah I was sort of wondering about spending alot less on the gfx card and getting say a GF8600GT to start with. If I buy it from EVGA they are doing a 90 (3 month) program where within that time I can send them this card to get a newer one (say a GF8800) and I will only pay the difference between the rrp of the new one and the rrp of the one I get now.
I was looking at the m/b/cpu thing and there is a new series of P35 express m/b’s just come out supporting the newer higher bus speed and the new core2duo 1333 cpus seem to be very well priced, (e.g the E6550)
Another way to look at it is that I only have a Radeon 9800 just now, so pretty much any gfx card I buy should knock the pants off it lol.
With the HDD’s, main reason for that is the new m/b’s only have 1 IDE socket, so cant have IDE HDD’s and ROM drives.
I currently have ATA133 7200rpm IDE drives and was looking at get a 320GB 7200rpm SATA II drive. These are supposed to have maxium theorical tranfer rate of 300mb/sec compared to the 133mb/sec of my current IDE drives. so surely there should be an improvement?
Well I got it installed ok with the serial provided and got past the activation fine. however it is using securom and keeps insisting I insert the correct dvd lol. suprised about that as its for download not sent in the post lol. I tried disabling the cd drives but then it says no cd drives found.
There is some program you can use for securom right>
Yeah I believe it is a si fi type of game and starts in a tropical island, but one of the alien things happen which totally freezes over the land, apparently part of their terraforming to allow them to survive.
I have also saw to download a key as well. whether it works or not I dont know
Yeah one of my friends was saying he was sniping with a machine gun lol. must be console rubbish hopefully and not make it onto the pc
What the game or the requiring key bit? and there is also cod 4 coming btw. I willl be getting my pc upgraded in the next months too fingers crossed so i should be able to play most stuff 🙂 (before anyone says, my pc hasnt been upgraded for 5 years!!)
Yep thats what I found and was a bit dissappointed to be honest. I see COD 4 now has a relase date in november, so Crysis and COD 4 will be out in the same month, the cunning buggers, going to be a lot of competition to play both i think
