Hey I'm a complete n00b at pcs, is this build ok? (by which I mean tell me what I screwed up) #Case: Apevia X-Telstar Junior 420W Case w/ Temp Display and Fan Control [+8] (G Type Red Color with Side-Window) #CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6750 CPU @ 2.66GHz 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache 64-bit [+24] #CD: (Special Price) 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR) #CD2: 16X DVD ROM [+18] (BLACK COLOR) #FLASHMEDIA: INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (BLACK COLOR) FAN: Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooling Fan (Extreme Silent at 20dBA & Overclock Proof) [+15] #HDD: Single Hard Drive (250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD [+13] #MOTHERBOARD: ($20 off Mail-in Rebate) (Quad-Core FSB1333) MSI P6N SLI-FI nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard [+28] #MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory [+90] (($30 off Mail-in Rebate) Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Memory w/ Heat Spreader [+50]) # NETWORK: ONBOARD 10/100 NETWORK CARD # OS: Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2 [+89] # POWERSUPPLY: 500 Watts Power Supplies [+49] (($20 off Mail-in Rebate) Xion ATX Power Supply Dual Silent Cooling Fan [+5]) # SOFT: Microsoft® Works v8.5 # SOUND: ESS 3D WAVETABLE SOUND PCI [+12] # SPEAKERS: Logitech S100 2.0 Stereo Speaker Set (BLACK COLOR) # USB: Built-in USB 2.0 Ports # VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA [+5]) # VIDEO2: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT 256MB 16X PCI Express [+85] (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA [+5]) # _PRICE: (+1072)
Unless i missed something, its all compatible. 8500 sli is a bit of a weird choice though. It would be better to get a more powerful single card, IMHO. It means you don't have the inneficiancy of SLI, which when coupled with a low end card strikes me as pointless.
Er, i'm presuming for around the same price and Nvidia? In that case i'd wait till next week and get an 8800GT 256MB, almost the same price, and will be much better off, especially with the future chance of SLI. If you can stretch the budget a wee bit, i'd gor for the normal 512MB version of the same card (8800GT). You'll see much better performance .
either an 8800gt or a 3870. there really is no reason to get anything else at the moment. also, xion power supply? are those any good? i've never heard of them before.
so you think I should get the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express or the ATI Radeon HD 3870 PCI-E x16 512MB Video Card? Just wondering (probably a stupid question) is the upgrade from the NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express to the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express worth the $127?
Yes. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2007/11/02/nvidia_geforce_8800_gt/7 I don't know much about where the 8600 stands in the nVidia range, but it must be significant that it's no longer listed in the test setups. You can see how that graph would scale down. The 8800 GT is the next-best thing to the bankrupt-tastic 8800 GTX/ultra.
yes, but if worse comes to worse you can get this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102714 plus it come with portal tf2 hl2ep2 free
with the SLI capable chipset i'd go for the 8800, makes more sense if you plan to go to SLI later on. RwD
Think of the forwards longevity! Think of Crysis and such 8800 is cheap as dirt for what it does. You'll not regret it.
Also: why do you have a seperate DVD-ROM drive? Just curious... the first drive will read DVDs ok unless you're making backups, in which case I'll shut up! Why MS works? Why XP SP2? Also if you're spending the money personally I'd get a 500gb hard disk rather than 250gb, can never have enough space! But that's all up to you
as a general rule, i would say never get more storage space than you need. the price of hard drives is constantly dropping, so if you buy 250 now and 250 a month from now, you are saving over what you would pay for 500 today. this rule breaks if you are buying anything bleeding-edge, but for anything up to 500gb drives, the price per gigabyte is the same no matter what size of disk you get.
kk thanks for all the suggestions, yes I will be making back-ups ^^. The OS doesn't really matter, just need to get one or I won't be allowed to buy it and it's the cheapest, ms works because it's free. I'm getting it off of cyberpowerpc.com, the Corsair HX 520 wasn't an option.
why cyberpowerpc? go through newegg or something, i'm sure you can get a better deal, and then you can get exactly the parts you want.
Does Newegg assemble them as well? I looked through it and I couldn't find a configurator. As I said before I'm a n00b at pcs, scared to build it myself at this point...
thats how i was when i first did it. but if you try it yourself, and you get stuck, just come here to ask for help. and its really not hard, everything only fits one way. as long as you pay attention to what you are doing, and make an effort to reduce static, you shouldn't have a problem. the only thing i dont like about home building is if something doesn't work, it can be a pain to figure out what part you need to send back.
