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Should be ok with that Mappy. The only change I would make is the Samsung Spinpoint drive, I think they have 3 platters which lead to some nasty seek times. They are great as secondary drives storing data but as a primary OS partition I'd stick to something a bit smaller. You can add a really cheap Western Digital WD1600AAJS into it which is a single platter (so damn fast) 160gb drive to act as the OS partition. Then use that chunky monkey for the page files, should give you a decent performance boost as I notice the HD is always bottlenecking my system these days. Edited by Pirotic at 11:53:28 14-05-2007 |
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[maven] 5,799 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBC content pushing you over the edge? 
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Introspectre 3,274 posts
Registered 15 years agoMapster wrote:
I've specced up this little chap, after doing minimal research cos I'm lazy.
What you PC nerds think, bang for buck?
Case
Gigabyte Triton GZ-XX1CA-SNB Black Aluminium Front
PSU
Fortron/Source Epsilon 700W, Blue Fan, Active PFC, ATX/EPS, SLI, 20/24pin PSU
MOBO
MSI P6N SLI-FI, nForce-650i SLI, Socket-775, ATX, DDR2, GbLAN, 2xPCI-Ex16
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz
MEMORY
Corsair TWIN2X 5400 DDR2, 2048MB PC5400 Kit w/two matched CM2X1024-5400C4 Dimm's
Graphics
XFX GeForce 8800GTS 560M 320MB XT GDDR3, PCI-Express
Hard Drive
Samsung SpinPoint T166 320GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
£784 delivered from Komplett (built too as I can't be arsed).
Verdict?
Change the mobo and RAM for starters. Corsair are using PROMOS IC's at the mo I think. That or Nanya.
Go with Crucial.
Is the PSU modular? The modular ones are nice. See Corsair HX 620. (y)
For the mobo, the P5B deluxe is a good overclocker if you're not fussed about SLi. Very impressed with that.
I'll get back to you on the case.
BRB
Case isn't that good IMO, get the GIGABYTE 3D Aurora 570.
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Introspectre 3,274 posts
Registered 15 years agoAh, well it is prolly fine. I mean, if you want it all at once then go with the slightly cheaper parts.
If you don't have the cash for that maybe save a bit more or just buy the bits when you can?
Seriously, whatever you do, make sure you check the IC on the Corsair mem. Lot of peeps have been complaining about PROMOS.
Ed.
'ang on!
Didn't you order that Zantoc (whatever) 8800GTS from Amazon the other day?
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silentbob 29,527 posts
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Registered 19 years agoMapster wrote:
TOLD YOU TOLD YOU TOLD YOU.
Introspectre wrote:
'ang on!
Didn't you order that Zantoc (whatever) 8800GTS from Amazon the other day?
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Yeah, but it looks like a mistake as the price has now zipped up to £500 (which is also a mistake).gif)
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Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAll looks good to me, although you may wanna consider the GC with more mem.
Let me know how their service is; I'll be needing to replace my PC at some point and I don't think I will be using eBuyer
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Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWith all that gear you'll want to play at the higher resolutions once you've got it sitting at home Better future proofing as well. -
silentbob 29,527 posts
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Registered 19 years agoFeanor wrote:
RAM aides in Anti Aliasing and all rendering effects. So even if you're only playing at lower resolutions you'll want to be stucking the AA to the max where possible.
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Khanivor 44,800 posts
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Registered 20 years agoYou'll prolly get a better performance boost from switching to XP from Vista then you would by doubling the memory on the Nvidia.
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silentbob 29,527 posts
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Registered 19 years agoFeanor wrote:
I meant Video RAM on your GPU. System RAM will only help caching textures and assets locally for smoother gameplay etc.
That's really good to know cause I'll definitely be getting 2 gigs of RAM, and I assume XP Home uses less RAM to run than Vista does.
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DodgyPast 9,353 posts
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Registered 16 years agoOuch.
Why exactly do you need two DVD drives?
Just want to show off this rather roomy case from Thermaltake.
Machine is running very cool.... and shockingly quiet given the 5 hard drives I've got in there... plus E6600 and 320Mb 8800 GTS.
If you think you need lots of storage I can't recommend it enough.
Really happy with the ASUS mobo, infact it had to be my smoothest PC install ever.
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DodgyPast 9,353 posts
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Registered 16 years agoheat is also a real killer.... hence going for a stupidly large case.
Actually I might be interested to see how heavy it is... haven't moved it since before the hard drives went in.
I've never had major problems with DVD drives... mine's been going strong for a couple of years... don't know about the one from before, but I sold it when it was 2 years old.
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matrim83 5,713 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBut your DVD drive should play all region DVDs no? So only problem is swapping one every now and then. -
I should have got two internal DVD drives so I could leave my current Region 2 DVD (Open All Hours) in the second drive, and have the main drive with a game in it or just empty so I can pop in a disc without having to remove one first.
May I suggest this... it gets you around region protection.
And then I could have the main drive as Region 1 in case I wanted to watch a standard American DVD on the computer.
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