Mad Moe
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I've always fancied the idea of building my own PC although I not particularly gifted in the art of IT. So I was wondering if any of you guy knew of any guides on the net or could help me out? I like the odd bit og gaming and use CAD from time to time and I've got a budget of £800-£1000 in mind. Also I've already got a nice 19" Sony TFT so no need for a monitor.
Any help appreciated
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drax
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£1000 will get you a good pc, just get same as mine.. and a better graphics card.. sorted 
P4 3.0 ghz ht
1 gig DDr2 533mhz ram
dfi utlanparty mobo
hiper TypeR modular PSU
and then id recommend a
PCI-Express X1800XT 512mb 
a grand will cover that nicely
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James_DT
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For the odd bit of gaming, isn't that overkill?
Might as well get a cheaper graphics card and spend the money elsewhere. Faster/better harddrive or something.
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Dan B
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Also, if you're doing CAD, I'd imagine low-latency RAM is going to be much more important than a decent graphics card...
I'd say 2GB of decent RAM, minimum.
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mjw_2k2
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true ^ 1gig isnt enough anymore lol,
i got 3.5gig, with a p4 3.2 HT and its fast, 200gb hd 120gb spare,
1dvdrw one cd/dvd combi,
512mb agp Nvidia 6800
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Dan B
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quote:
Originally posted by mjw_2k2
512mb agp Nvidia 6800
If you really do have one of those, how much was it and where from?
Cheapest I've seen them, by a decent brand, was more than £500...
[Edited on 15-11-2005 by Dan B]
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Mad Moe
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Sat playing on the net last night a came up with this little lot:
AMD (Venice) Athlon 64 3500+ 939pin 512Kb L2 Cache 90nm
MSI K8N Diamond SKT939 nForce4 Onboard Sound/LAN DDR
2 x Kingston 1GB 400MHz DDR PC3200 DIMM 3-3-3
1 x Hiper 580W Type-R Modular PSU
1 x PNY GEFORCE 7800GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E DUAL DVI/HDTV-out
1 x Sony DWQ28AB2 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Internal IDE
1 x Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS Platinum 7.1 Surroundsound 24-bit Sound Card
Any ideas or opinions, as I've said before I not really that clued up so and advice would be appreciated.
That lot there came in at about £800
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Dan B
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My only issue with that spec would be the latency of the memory chips......CAS 3-3-3 is quite slow, aim for something beginning with 2- in my opinion.
Something like this, for example...
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Mad Moe
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If I included the RAM you suggest it would knock my little package upto around £900 is it significantlly better than the one I list? just I really fancy the DiNivo Desktop looks very
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drax
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You might want a sata hard drive too matey, 80gbs are quite cheap now but you'll use them up fast with all the software being so large now coming on dvds etc, geta 120 - 160
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Mad Moe
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Shit didn't even think about a hard drive, how thick am I I've got a 200Gb Maxtor Onetouch Portable harddrive for all my CAD and Music Stuff so 80GB would probably be enough to be honest
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mjw_2k2
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan B
quote:
Originally posted by mjw_2k2
512mb agp Nvidia 6800
If you really do have one of those, how much was it and where from?
Cheapest I've seen them, by a decent brand, was more than £500...
[Edited on 15-11-2005 by Dan B]
mine was a special offer factory returned £350 (box opened, retested)
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topshot_2k
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go for an athlon dual core 4400/4800 cpu and build aroud that, and def 2gb+ of RAM. use overclockers.co.uk for prices/reviews
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