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csweatherston

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Registered: 16th Jan 06
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21st Jan 08 at 19:56

whats the checklist?
the last one i built was about 6 years ago....and it seems a lot has changed lol.

so far ive only got an atx case and 500w psu

N3CRO

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Registered: 12th Apr 07
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21st Jan 08 at 20:08

motherboard
CPU
memory
HDD
DVD drive
floppy drive
graphics card
sound card
possibly modem

[Edited on 21-01-2008 by Necromancer]

csweatherston

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21st Jan 08 at 20:17

wasnt going to bother with a flobby tbh...

more on about cpu size, chipset, memory type etc..
just found out ribbons are old hack as its all sata now

dont really want to go liquid cooled just yet, but maybe upgrade to it in a few years

Richie

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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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21st Jan 08 at 22:03

No need for liquid cooling nowadays. Most stuff will run decently under air cooling.

Whats your budget fella?

Daniel_Corsa

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21st Jan 08 at 22:23

Depends on your budget and what your prefrences are:

Intel / AMD etc.

I've always gone for AMD stuff over Intel, but if I was currently building a PC that might change!

www.ebuyer.co.uk

Price up all the components you would like and see if its within your budget!

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Richie

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21st Jan 08 at 23:05

I went from an AMD 4600+ X2 to an Intel Q6600 overclocked to 3GHz

Tis mazin

Cosmo

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21st Jan 08 at 23:40

If anyone buys AMD now then you need to check yourself into the local looney bin tbh.

csweatherston

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22nd Jan 08 at 00:00

well, currently im running a celron 2.4ghz overclocked to 2.59.
and about 1g of ram.
on a azus p4 board with a nvidia gforce gfx card (128mb shared)
which is all a bit old and slow

want something suitable for A LOT of music/video playback at high quality as it will be used through my tv.
photo editing
and fast.
dont do much pc gaming but the power to do it would be nice

budget is open really as im going to start collecting bits weekly etc.

cheers

Cosmo

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22nd Jan 08 at 00:02

any sort of rough budget?

csweatherston

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22nd Jan 08 at 00:05

around 750 tops really??..may be able to push a bit more if necessary.

was also thinking of micro atx as maplin do this funky little case: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=221068&source=2001&doy=22m1

but is it a ballache sourcing a smaller board and using piggback cards etc?

Richie

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22nd Jan 08 at 00:11

That case requires a mATX power supply mate. You would take an age finding a cheap high end PSU.

Cosmo

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22nd Jan 08 at 00:16

Plus doubt you'd fit in a decent graphics card such as a 8800 GTS or Ultra

csweatherston

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22nd Jan 08 at 00:21

lol, ok mATX is a no go then...

Markus

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22nd Jan 08 at 11:35

go on overclockers.co.uk
if you want decent stuff for a good price,
i currently have 2 x 8800gtx's running on a QX9650 beastly

Cosmo

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22nd Jan 08 at 12:28

quote:
Originally posted by Markus
go on overclockers.co.uk
if you want decent stuff for a good price,
i currently have 2 x 8800gtx's running on a QX9650 beastly

some of their prices are far from good

Russ

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22nd Jan 08 at 13:42

and there service is shit

scan is where its at.
oe even komplett

Richie

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22nd Jan 08 at 14:42

Overclockers is run by a known racist. Would never buy from them.

Cosmo

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22nd Jan 08 at 15:11

quote:
Originally posted by Richie
Overclockers is run by a known racist.

do spill

Richie

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22nd Jan 08 at 15:18

The managing director is an openly racist homophobe. He made alot of posts on his forum that were quite out of order and really lost them alot of business.

He is also a prick in general. If you question him on the forums or if you get shirty about a return, he just bans you.

I think the one that clinched it for alot of people was when he made a thread with the title "Why do Paki's Smell?"

Matt L

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22nd Jan 08 at 15:18

yeh dont buy from overclockers complete bunch of incompatant monkeys work there

bought my pcs bits from there and vista wouldnt install took them 8 weeks if not longer to test it and come back saying that it had the wrong type of ram and there website was wrong. admittedly yes it works now and they sorted it out but took friggin long enough.

plus tbh i dont think they fixed the exact problem i think they just stuck in 2 x 1gb sticks of ram. to solve the problem not swap the broken bit.

Never again am i going there

[Edited on 22-01-2008 by Matt L]

Cosmo

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22nd Jan 08 at 15:20

quote:
Originally posted by Richie
The managing director is an openly racist homophobe. He made alot of posts on his forum that were quite out of order and really lost them alot of business.

He is also a prick in general. If you question him on the forums or if you get shirty about a return, he just bans you.

I think the one that clinched it for alot of people was when he made a thread with the title "Why do Paki's Smell?"

Well there is something I didnt know!

Richie

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22nd Jan 08 at 15:22

I will never spend £1 with them!

Matt L

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22nd Jan 08 at 15:24

same here.

Liam

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22nd Jan 08 at 17:07

I just bought my PC parts from them (Overclockers), no complaints from me. Ordered parts on phone, and my Dad collected them straight away.

[Edited on 22-01-2008 by Liam]

Matt L

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22nd Jan 08 at 17:21

nothin wrong with the service i got when getting bits, problems came when i wanted something swapping cause it was broke

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