Help PC Upgrades

[throdgrain]

Find me one then throddy!

I gave you a link too !

 

[inactionman]

The processor is fine, you may need a BIOS update for the motherboard to support it though.

How many IDE drives do you have? As any of those motherboards can only support 2 (1x master, 1x slave). All of them give the other connectivity though.

 

[Tilda]

Going for this I think:

gfx - Point Of View 8800GT 512MB GDDR3 256bit Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Card - Ebuyer
mobo - ASUS P5K AiLifestyle Series iP35 Socket 775 eSATA 8channel Audio ATX Motherboard - Ebuyer
cpu - Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 Socket 775 (2.66GHz) FSB1333 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor - Ebuyer
ram - Corsair 4GB Kit (2x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-18) Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty - Ebuyer
psu - Coolermaster IGreen 600W PSU - 85% Efficiency 8pin ATX12V v2.2 120mm Fan - Ebuyer
dvd drive converter - IDE to SATA Converter (Connect an IDE Hard Drive to SATA Motherboard) - Ebuyer

Should do me for now

Have a spare copy of vista 64x so will somehow remake pc and format and install all in one go hopefully!

 

[Tilda]

ps. so much for a 150 quid upgrade!

 

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looks fine me thinks

 

[Ch3tan]

Thank god, another potential PC upgrade disaster avoided.

 

[Tilda]

you think that looks ok chet then?

 

[Ch3tan]

I prefer gigabyte mobo's personally, but yes its fine. You could consider the quad core c2d instead Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache OEM Processor - Ebuyer , it's not too much more, but I suspect the cpu you have chosen actually will run faster.

I would say it may be worth getting faster ram if you plan to overclock in the future (which is piss easy with that cpu)

No doubt Kryt and Trem will have something to say about the psu.

 

[Kryten]

That's already been mentioned
There's nothing to chose between the Asus P5K and Gigabyte, the latter is more of a budget board, the former is a bigger overclocker and has a lot more tweaking options, but neither are any better or worse performance wise. I'd avoid the MSI entirely, not particularly great boards.

I didn't look to see how much that IDE>SATA converter is costing you, but as a shiney new SATA DVDRW drive is only around 15 quid, is it really, really worth a large dongly adapter thing in your case?

 

[inactionman]

I'd suggest this PSU instead of the coolermaster, it's actually seasonic designed and they are very good:

Corsair HX Series 520W Modular PSU - ATX12V v2.2 APFC - Ebuyer

Also the idea of using SATA DVDRW drives instead of the converter is a good one. I did this and now only use SATA drives in my system, they tend to perform better than IDE as well, and converters are just cludgy and just another thing to go wrong.

 

[Tilda]

It lives!
I haven't tested it yet, as its only running my old xp install.
Waiting for sata HDD and sata dvdrw (grr more money!) to arrive tomorrow and i'll have a fresh vista install and can see how it performs.