Build Advice Mid range gamer + all rounder, advice please!! :)

Basically in our house we have a ps3, 3 pcs, and 2 places to plug laptops into at desks and these are all connected from the router by cables. Once you do it you won't regret it as I got so bored with my wifi signal dropping out all the time and a cable offers much mire reliable and faster speeds.

 

fair enough. Well its just my machine on 80% of the time, and that with the router seems to be ok for now. I'll look in the cabling, but that might have to wait a few months.

More importantly, do i get a SATAII or a SATAIII SSD?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/259774

or

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225416

thanks

 

Sata3

 

HD Samsung 1TB FP3 7200
DVD Samsung SH-S223AL
Case fans 140mm + 200mm fans
TV card KWorld DVBT PC160-2T PCI, Dual Digital TV Tuner & Capture
Wireless Card Cisco Linksys Wireless-N PCI Adapter
CPU cooler Corsair Hydro Series H60 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
RAM Corsair Vengeance Memory Module 8gb Ddr3 1866mhz Cl9
PSU 750W Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750M Modular
Case NZXT Phantom Special Edition Case White with Red Stripe
MOBO MSI P67A-GD53 (B3)
CPU Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz
SDD OCZ 120GB Agility 3 SSD
GPU`` Nvdia GTX 570 1.3GB

this is looking more and more like the final selection.

Thoughts, opinions?

Also, £15 cheaper when all brought on Ebuyer when compared to all brought with Scan. 1130.56 vs 1149.87

 

Where did the k go?

The Antec KÜHLER H₂O 620 is cools better and is cheaper than the Corsair H60.

Other than that it looks fine

 

its back! No worries about the mobo? or compatibility?

 

Get clued up on the slots, particularly since we are talking about 2 different and incompatible standards here.

PCI is the old standard, identifiable by a physically large slot connector that is split into 3 parts, one large connector flanked by two smaller connectors either side. While it may be considered close to obsolescence, the slot does provide more than enough bandwidth for sound cards, tv cards, wireless and gigabit network cards.

PCI Express (PCI-E) is the current standard, it is made up of lanes. The big slot that you will install the graphics card in is a PCI-E x16 slot. The 16x refers to the physical size and the amount of lanes, hence total bandwidth available to the device in the slot. A board may have x1, x4, x8 and x16 slots. Devices follow this pattern, devices such as a graphics card will have x16 connector that requires x16 slot to physically fit and x16 lanes to operate at full bandwidth. A device with a smaller connector can fit into a physically larger slot and still function, no issue. The final matter that complicates the use of PCI-E is that while a slot may physically be a large x16, the amount of lanes available may actually by x4 or x8, this limits the bandwidth available to your device. Certainly the graphics card should go in the highest bandwidth slot available, devices such as RAID controller cards could do with x4 or x8 port, sound cards/tv cards and the rest are fine in x1. The motherboard manual should distinguish what is what.

The oldest component in my setup is a PCI X-Fi sound card, it is a device I had and it was nice to integrate it into a system that still offered the older style PCI slots. Thinking about it the reality is the PCI slot is becoming obsolete and a growing number of motherboards no longer support it so it may be wise to give purchasing preference to PCI-E devices as you are more likely to be able to migrate these to a newer motherboard in the future or hold their resale value once no longer needed.

 

This is perfect mate, rep to you (not that'll make you a god, but meh ) this is exactly what i need. So i need to make sure that all on my list is a PCI - E card... interesting!

Thanks again mate!

 

Cheers! It is not the be all and end all, as long as you have a suitable free slot for each device you want that is most important.