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willay

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21st Jan 06 at 14:26

Ok so decided to finally take the plunge and update my beast.

I've just ordered:

AMD (San Diego) Athlon 64bit 4000+ 939pin 1mb L2cache Retail Boxed Processor With 3 Year
Warranty and Fan Included.

Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 Nvidia NF4 ATX - Sound 2 x GIGA LAN 1394a USB 2.0 1066 MHz
FSB SATA-R

Money spent so far: £382

Will spend some more time researching into the graphics card but I'm open to any suggestions, I'm after something using PCI-E/X with two outputs for my monitors. I want to play all the latest games on pretty high settings, and finally some Battlefield 2

I will try to keep this thread up to date.

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James

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21st Jan 06 at 14:35

Yes this is the way forward, this is what im ordering later on today

willay

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21st Jan 06 at 14:43

Looking good James!

I'm in two minds about the ram/optical drives/hd cause I already have them bits in the current PC I'm using.

But I have a feeling I'll be ordering new ram so I have some decent stuff for the new board

That graphics card looks a tad old?

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21st Jan 06 at 17:23

quote:
Originally posted by willay
Looking good James!

I'm in two minds about the ram/optical drives/hd cause I already have them bits in the current PC I'm using.

But I have a feeling I'll be ordering new ram so I have some decent stuff for the new board

That graphics card looks a tad old?

i have 3 80 gig IDE hard drives kicking around, but i decided that as i spent nearly 800 quid on a new PC it would prolly be better to go the whole way and get a new HD.
I just ordered a 250gb 16mb cache SATA 2 hard drive and it was well worth the money. noticably quicker.

James

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21st Jan 06 at 18:24

yeh the graphics card is shit but it will be upgraded in the near future!

Jamescorsa97

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21st Jan 06 at 20:02

willay watch that chipset fan!!!

Chump

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21st Jan 06 at 21:20

the new 6800GS (replacing the GT's) are meant to be pretty good and are only £150 each. Get 2 in SLI and you've got a good system for not much money....

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21st Jan 06 at 22:21

I wish my next computer was going to be that cheap!

My graphics card alone is currently priced at £540!

Jules

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22nd Jan 06 at 13:55

quote:
Originally posted by Jamescorsa97
willay watch that chipset fan!!!

Yours packed up aswell?!
I have the Asus A8N mobo and the chipset fan has given up the ghost, contacted Asus about it who said to contact where I got it from (Scan.co.uk) so contacted them who said that it is a common fault with them and will send a replacement when they get some in stock - never did recieve it......

I've noticed no difference in operating temperatures without it however so I'm not overly concerned.
However, I've now slung in another gig of ram and a 2nd gfx card (now running in SLi mode) so I think I should get it sorted as it's getting hotter in there! Also a new case might be a good idea as I'm just using a cheap shitty 'Nokia' style one at the moment! lol
Was thinking of a Thermaltake one as they are relatively cheap (sub £75) and offer plenty of cooling and nice touches - opnions on them (or any other cases)?

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22nd Jan 06 at 14:18

anything Thermaltake make is good + good quality.

As for the fan, ive taken this advice and just ordered the Zalman:

as i have the a8n sli mobo

Jamescorsa97

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22nd Jan 06 at 15:36

quote:
Originally posted by Jules

quote:
Originally posted by Jamescorsa97
willay watch that chipset fan!!!

Yours packed up aswell?!
I have the Asus A8N mobo and the chipset fan has given up the ghost, contacted Asus about it who said to contact where I got it from (Scan.co.uk) so contacted them who said that it is a common fault with them and will send a replacement when they get some in stock - never did recieve it......
I've noticed no difference in operating temperatures without it however so I'm not overly concerned.
However, I've now slung in another gig of ram and a 2nd gfx card (now running in SLi mode) so I think I should get it sorted as it's getting hotter in there! Also a new case might be a good idea as I'm just using a cheap shitty 'Nokia' style one at the moment! lol
Was thinking of a Thermaltake one as they are relatively cheap (sub £75) and offer plenty of cooling and nice touches - opnions on them (or any other cases)?

You ahve notived no diff without it

Dude geta fan on there, maybe no diff in temp but ti will be slowly getting damaged.

I replaced mione with a zalman heatsink!

Jules

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22nd Jan 06 at 16:17

URL of place to order Zalman from pls?

Jamescorsa97

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23rd Jan 06 at 07:36

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=321728

There you are me dear!

Make sure your case is well ventilated if you use this!

If it ain't - there is always this-

http://www.maplin.co.uk/search.aspx?MenuNo=537&FromMenu=y&doy=#DayOfYear

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23rd Jan 06 at 09:27

I'm after another computer now

PhilC

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23rd Jan 06 at 09:49

I got myself an AMD 4000+, running with 2GB OCZ 2-3-2-5 RAM, and 2x 6600GT's in SLi, it's a beast, you won't be disappointed with the CPU...

willay

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27th Jan 06 at 15:58

The motherboard is so lovely looking but I still need drives/graphics card before I can continue. Can anyone suggest a graphics card?

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27th Jan 06 at 15:59

How much you thinking of spending on it?

willay

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27th Jan 06 at 16:10

£200 region really.

willay

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29th Jan 06 at 18:10

hey guys, looking at this graphics card for my new system:

http://www.pny.com/products/verto/performance/7800gt.asp

going to do a bit more research before i go any further with the purchase.

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29th Jan 06 at 18:12

could wait a short while for the 7900s?

willay

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29th Jan 06 at 18:19

havent read up much so why should i?

bearing in mind it wil stop my system being built and I dont really fancy paying out more then the card above (approx 200 quid).

willay

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29th Jan 06 at 18:37

I'm going for the 7800 GT now

willay

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31st Jan 06 at 06:51

all comes today

willay

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31st Jan 06 at 06:53

Bits to come today that will almost complete my system:

PNY GEFORCE 7800GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E DUAL DVI/HDTV-out

Crucial 2GB kit (1GBx2) DDR PC3200 CL=3 UNBUFFERED NON-ECC DDR400 2.6V 128Meg x 64

Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Midi Tower - With 450W SmartPower2.0 PSU

Spent so far:

£800.63

James

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31st Jan 06 at 10:08

My stuff comes today