- Feb 10, 2008
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Hi.
Been lurking for a while and finally decided to take the plunge and build my own system after lurching from one 'most underpowered PSU and the cheapest case we can get away with' manufacturer to another for far too long.
Can't say I'll be using it for anything specific, a bit of everything really, which isn't much help, though I'm not particularly bothered about being able to play crysis at 2048xwhatever, I'm not particularly into 'every frame per second counts' type stuff, as long as things run I'm not that bothered, games running at 1024x768 still seem like high resolution to me, ergo I'm not into overclocking.
I'm in the UK and ideally I don't want to go over £1500, initially I'd planned to go all out on a qx9650 setup but then I found out about this Nehalem business so effectively what I want is something to tide me over until that comes out, is vaguely futureproof (hence the PSU) and that will need the least amount of stuff replacing, though as far as I understand it the cpu/memory/motherboard will all need to be replaced for Nehalem (?) but I suppose I can always reuse this stuff in something else/sell it on.
I'd like to stick to Intel and Nvidia, beyond that I haven't got any great preferences, I've just bought a new monitor so I'll be reusing that.
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Power Supply - 1000W Enermax EG1000EWLDXX V2 Galaxy Modular PSU.
Case - Antec P182 Advanced PERFORMANCE ONE SERIES.
Motherboard - Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP, iP35, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 1066/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX.
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, S775, 3.0 GHz, 1333MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache.
Heatsink/Fan - Tuniq Tower 120.
Memory - 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400.
Primary Hard Drive - 150 Gb Western Digital WD1500AHFD Raptor X, SATA150, 10000 rpm, 16MB Cache.
Secondary Hard Drive - 500 GB Seagate ST3500630AS Barracuda 7200.10, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache
Optical Drives - 2x LG GSA-H55LBRL 20xDVD±R.
Graphics Card - 512MB Asus 8800GT PCI-E 2.0 (x16), 1800 MHz, GDDR3, GPU 600 MHz.
Soundcard - Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer.
Keyboard/Mouse - Logitech DiNovo Edge/Revolution MX.
Speakers - Creative Gigaworks T40.
Total - £1356.
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My primary concerns are whether or not the Raptor will work with the motherboard (it's a bit of a luxury I suppose and could go/be replaced if needs be) and if the memory is any good, I was looking at this stuff initially, is there any compelling reason I should get that over the corsair beyond the nice looking heatsinks ?
Is the Tuniq overkill ? Presumably it won't work on the Nehalem sockets and £35 seem's a bit steep for a cooler if I'm not overclocking, looks pleasant though.
I was considering the Logitech MX Air but it looks like it'd be a nightmare for gaming, anyone got any experience of it ?
Beyond that have I overlooked anything glaringly obvious ?
Thanks In Advance.
Been lurking for a while and finally decided to take the plunge and build my own system after lurching from one 'most underpowered PSU and the cheapest case we can get away with' manufacturer to another for far too long.
Can't say I'll be using it for anything specific, a bit of everything really, which isn't much help, though I'm not particularly bothered about being able to play crysis at 2048xwhatever, I'm not particularly into 'every frame per second counts' type stuff, as long as things run I'm not that bothered, games running at 1024x768 still seem like high resolution to me, ergo I'm not into overclocking.
I'm in the UK and ideally I don't want to go over £1500, initially I'd planned to go all out on a qx9650 setup but then I found out about this Nehalem business so effectively what I want is something to tide me over until that comes out, is vaguely futureproof (hence the PSU) and that will need the least amount of stuff replacing, though as far as I understand it the cpu/memory/motherboard will all need to be replaced for Nehalem (?) but I suppose I can always reuse this stuff in something else/sell it on.
I'd like to stick to Intel and Nvidia, beyond that I haven't got any great preferences, I've just bought a new monitor so I'll be reusing that.
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Power Supply - 1000W Enermax EG1000EWLDXX V2 Galaxy Modular PSU.
Case - Antec P182 Advanced PERFORMANCE ONE SERIES.
Motherboard - Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP, iP35, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 1066/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX.
CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, S775, 3.0 GHz, 1333MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache.
Heatsink/Fan - Tuniq Tower 120.
Memory - 4GB (2x2GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400.
Primary Hard Drive - 150 Gb Western Digital WD1500AHFD Raptor X, SATA150, 10000 rpm, 16MB Cache.
Secondary Hard Drive - 500 GB Seagate ST3500630AS Barracuda 7200.10, SATA II, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache
Optical Drives - 2x LG GSA-H55LBRL 20xDVD±R.
Graphics Card - 512MB Asus 8800GT PCI-E 2.0 (x16), 1800 MHz, GDDR3, GPU 600 MHz.
Soundcard - Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer.
Keyboard/Mouse - Logitech DiNovo Edge/Revolution MX.
Speakers - Creative Gigaworks T40.
Total - £1356.
-
My primary concerns are whether or not the Raptor will work with the motherboard (it's a bit of a luxury I suppose and could go/be replaced if needs be) and if the memory is any good, I was looking at this stuff initially, is there any compelling reason I should get that over the corsair beyond the nice looking heatsinks ?
Is the Tuniq overkill ? Presumably it won't work on the Nehalem sockets and £35 seem's a bit steep for a cooler if I'm not overclocking, looks pleasant though.
I was considering the Logitech MX Air but it looks like it'd be a nightmare for gaming, anyone got any experience of it ?
Beyond that have I overlooked anything glaringly obvious ?
Thanks In Advance.