New Rig

2008-12-06 16:39:35

#1

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Just got a new job, so gonna save up for a new rig. Just wondering if you kind gents can have a butcher's at this little bundle and tell me (nub) what y'all think.

Components Processor
1 x AMD Phenom X4 Quad-Core 9950 2.6GHz Processor A... £122.47

Motherboard
1 x Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Motherboard AMD Athlon 64... £47.31

Memory
1 x Corsair 4096MB Memory Kit (2x2048MB) DDR2 PC2-6... £42.37

Graphics Card
1 x GIGABYTE NVIDIA 9800GT OC 512MB 256BIT DDR3 ZAL... £94.51

Power Supply
1 x Corsair TX 750W Power Supply £95.23

Additional Hard Disk
1 x SAMSUNG 500gb 16mb SATA £34.16

2008-12-06 16:40:51

#2

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

Whats the total budget?

2008-12-06 16:42:29

#3

Wallpaper: ☺; +303|6260|The pool

Unless your plan on waiting for the AMD Deneb (which no one knows how good it will be), stay away from phenoms.

inb4intel8400spam

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2008-12-06 16:43:23

#4

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Stimey wrote:
Whats the total budget?

Not fussed, bout £600 at the very most.

And are Phenoms that bad?

2008-12-06 16:47:33

#5

Wallpaper: ☺; +303|6260|The pool

SirSchloppy wrote:
Stimey wrote:
Whats the total budget?
Not fussed, bout £600 at the very most.

And are Phenoms that bad?

No, but theyre not worth the money. IIRC there are cheaper dual core Intels that are all around faster

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2008-12-06 16:55:50

#6

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Wallpaper wrote:
SirSchloppy wrote:
Stimey wrote:
Whats the total budget?
Not fussed, bout £600 at the very most.

And are Phenoms that bad?
No, but theyre not worth the money. IIRC there are cheaper dual core Intels that are all around faster

What Intels are they? I might go back and spec an Intel rig.

/offtopic.

In my house there is me and my two brothers, and we all like our computers, my two brothers, Sirschmoopy, and jay_courage, to give them their BF2S names, are opposite ends of the spectrum, one like AMD (Jay) and one like Intel (Schmoop) and they argue about it all the time. Quite funny.

I'm not sad prejudiced.

2008-12-06 16:56:07

#7

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

where are you planning to buy from?

2008-12-06 16:58:22

#8

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Stimey wrote:
where are you planning to buy from?

Wherever's cheapest...

2008-12-06 17:00:19

#9

Surgeons: U shud proabbly f off u fat prik; +3,097|6755|Gogledd Cymru

Overclockers
Scan computers
Advancetec

Check one of those to buy (Stimey)

2008-12-06 17:03:56

#10

phishman420: Banned; +821|5947

There is no argument. Intel > AMD

2008-12-06 17:05:10

#11

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

The Sheriff wrote:
Overclockers
Scan computers
Advancetec

Check one of those to buy (Stimey)

I knew of these I was just checking to see if he had a preferred source.

2008-12-06 17:07:22

#12

Bell: Frosties > Cornflakes; +362|6815|UK

On, OCUK, an:

E8400
ATi 4850
Asus P5Q
Corsair TX 650W
Samsung 500GB
Corsair 2x2GB DDR2

Is £539. Probably find it cheaper on ebuyer.

Is it for gaming though? And, are you running vista? If so 64bit?

Martyn

2008-12-06 17:12:42

#13

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Bell wrote:
On, OCUK, an:

E8400
ATi 4850
Asus P5Q
Corsair TX 650W
Samsung 500GB
Corsair 2x2GB DDR2

Is £539. Probably find it cheaper on ebuyer.

Is it for gaming though? And, are you running vista? If so 64bit?

Martyn

Well I'll probably be doing a bit of gaming (Got an Xbox so not too much).
Music, Movies, College work.
I just want a nice, fast computer that'll do me for a couple of years and I won't have to upgrade. I'm sick fed up of the heap of shite I have the the left of my left leg just now kicks computer like a ginger child

But that seems a pretty decent price, would going Quad be worthwhile at all?

Not a big fan of Vista, but don't wanna be a stick-in-the-mud.

2008-12-06 17:13:38

#14

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

2008-12-06 17:14:52

#15

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Stimey wrote:
http://i34.tinypic.com/28bvgo7.png

Could knock £100 off of that as I don't need such a mental GFX

2008-12-06 17:16:20

#16

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

SirSchloppy wrote:
Stimey wrote:
http://i34.tinypic.com/28bvgo7.png
Could knock £100 off of that as I don't need such a mental GFX

Then you could knock off the PSU, you could go down to 450W just fine.

2008-12-06 17:17:09

#17

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Stimey wrote:
SirSchloppy wrote:
Stimey wrote:
http://i34.tinypic.com/28bvgo7.png
Could knock £100 off of that as I don't need such a mental GFX
Then you could knock off the PSU, you could go down to 450W just fine.

How much for a decent 450w job?

2008-12-06 17:19:06

#18

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu … =CA-006-CS

2008-12-06 17:30:42

#19

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/viewcart.php

Someone check please?

2008-12-06 17:32:11

#20

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

SirSchloppy wrote:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/viewcart.php

Someone check please?

facepalm.jpg

You need to take a screenshot and post it.
Your "cart" is just a cookie from the site.

2008-12-06 17:33:25

#21

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Stimey wrote:
SirSchloppy wrote:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/viewcart.php

Someone check please?
facepalm.jpg

You need to take a screenshot and post it.
Your "cart" is just a cookie from the site.

Sorry, one's bad.

2008-12-06 17:36:03

#22

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

https://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo196/cam__my/RIG.jpg

2008-12-06 17:38:54

#23

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

SirSchloppy wrote:
http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo19 … my/RIG.jpg

Looks good.
If you aren't gaming you might not even need the 4GB.
What OS are you planning on running?

2008-12-06 17:40:21

#24

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6396|Carnoustie MASSIF

Stimey wrote:
SirSchloppy wrote:
http://i375.photobucket.com/albums/oo19 … my/RIG.jpg
Looks good.
If you aren't gaming you might not even need the 4GB.
What OS are you planning on running?

Want 4gb so it runs nice and quickly, as I said I'll probably run Vista, although I like XP and amen't too keen on Vista

2008-12-06 17:43:45

#25

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

Also, that CPU/Mobo combo are good overclockers.
If you are planning on overclockin, you may want a cooler.

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