New kit pour moi...

[wyrd_fish]

i need new:

RAM <£100
Proccessor <£150
MoBo <£100


i've been looking at nForce 2 MoBos, so that limits me to AMD CPUs.

any sujestions welcome...

 

[Tom]

I have an A7N8X, there are some sound problems with this board, but I fixed them by using the realtek codec rather than the nforce codec.

I also had problems (and still do) getting the CPU to run at the correct speed, so beware of that.

 

[Krazeh]

What version of the A7N8X do u have? and which pcb revision?

I've got the deluxe version and the 2.0 PCB revision and I can't say i've had any problems with sound or processor speed settings on my board

 

[Ch3tan]

You could get a p4 2.4C and overclock it too buggery with that.

 

[wyrd_fish]

note the < (less than) signs...


i've been doing some research of my own and found this:

(www.overclock.co.uk, cheapest I found...)

Asus A7N8X Deluxe Gold - £89.08
was going for the non-Deluxe version, but this is only £10 more expencive and now you've mentioned some probs, I think its a better option.

AMD Athlon 2500+ Barton - £60.42
OEM version.

Vantec Areoflow VA4 - C7040 - £24.93
It got a good review at Tom's Hardware.

And some other stuff, just because...:

Thermaltake Smart Fan II - £9.87
80mm, constant, heat controlled or manual speed.

Mitron 'Unreal Tournament' 80mm Grill - £4.63
Its drillin' time...


Grand Total: £188.93

Way below my guess-ta-mates...


Any feed back welcome.

PS: My dads lending me some RAM.

 

[Ch3tan]

Yeah? A p42.4c is less than £150.

 

[wyrd_fish]

they were optermistic guesses...

ie. i wanted to spend about half that...

 

[Panda On Smack]

Originally posted by Tom
I have an A7N8X, there are some sound problems with this board, but I fixed them by using the realtek codec rather than the nforce codec.

I also had problems (and still do) getting the CPU to run at the correct speed, so beware of that.

LINK ME UP SCOTTY!!

i get sound issues as well with this mobo, can you help me out please?

Ta tom

 

[SoWat]

Motherboard: Epox 8RDA+ (nForce2) £75
Built in sound/Lan/USB2/1394

CPU: Athlon 2800+ £102

Memory: 2x256mb PC2700 £62

Alternatively, the Epox 8RDA3+ is around £90 and has SATA

 

[wyrd_fish]

i'm really after an nForce 2...


Latest list:

A7N8X-VM - micro ATX with on board GF4 £70ish
Athlon XP 2500+ 333 £70ish
and some RAM, nowt special.. just branded DDR 333 (2 x 256)

 

[(Shovel)]

You may not mean Micro ATX - that's not standard case size - it's one of "Small Form Factor" motherboards. You may want the Standard ATX size

 

[Chameleon]

And get 2x512 ram

 

[Ch3tan]

Its definetly worth getting 1 gig of ram, you will notice the difference.

 

[wyrd_fish]

Originally posted by (Shovel)
You may not mean Micro ATX - that's not standard case size - it's one of "Small Form Factor" motherboards. You may want the Standard ATX size

I'm not stupid you know...

but its the only one with built a in GPU.



I may upgrade at alater date to a Deluxe Gold version and a 9700Pro... and more RAM, but right now thats what i'm going for... I think...

 

[wyrd_fish]

Newest List (overclockers.co.uk)

A7N8X-VM - £61.90
Athlon XP 2500+ 'Barton' Retail - £61.60
Kingston HyperX 512MB (2x256MB) DDR PC2700 - £83.00

total: £242.64 (with VAT)

same price as Dabs but with better RAM