I'm buying a new system next week, an upgrade from my Mobile 2500+ which ive had for years now. I just want to make sure that ive made the right choices for my new system CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 GPU - Sapphire 1900 XT-X Memory - Geil Ultra Low Latency PC6400 ram 2 x 512mb Motherboard - Abit AB9 Pro HDD - Seagate Barricuda SATA 2 320gb Cooler - Monitor - Ive got about a £950 budget and everything minus the cooler and monitor comes to £750 so ive got an extra £200 for a monitor and cooler. If any sugestions for these parts could be made , that would be grand Ive only got a 17" crt at the moment and would love a widescreen 19" TFT but i dont think i will have enough money to buy a good one. OCUK has a Bellinea 19" at £133 but i think ghosting would be a problem on such a cheap model. I would like watercooling also but that will probably cost me around the £100 mark. So should i get some H2O or a nice new monitor?
oh nice monitor easilly! Belinia are actually rather good from what ive heard, tho if u can get a better make they try for it. your specs looks good, tho one of the other guys on these forums bought a AB9 and he had a rough time but he had to update the BIOS and it worked out fine for him, if you can try and change the mobo for a Asus P5B asthey are the best 965 based mobos around. for a cooler i'd get depends if im Oc'ing or not? also ur gonna WC the comp later so whay not jst keep the costs down? If ur buging a retail cpu then just use the stock HSF if not then i'd suggest getting a AC Freezer7 as they are cheap and rather effective. I'd wait on the WC setup. Aria usually have loads of monitors on offer have a look with them.
Dont bother with the XTX and go for a 1950 if you can, you'll thank me for retaining your sanity. Also, if you're planning on overclocking the Gigabyte P965 DQ6 is my inside bet Can you say "500FSB"?
The gigabyte looks quite nice, a bit more than i wanted to spend but from looking at it i think ill get it. Ive revised my list and now have a gig of the memory a 1950xt-x and the gigabyte motherboard and im already at £870 with cpu and hdd. I think im going to have to leave the monitor for a while until i get paid next. Im kicking myself now because my friend has a 19" crt available and now hes sold it To keep the cost down i think ill just go for some good ol' air cooling seeing as ill have the extra power from the 1950 and extra memory. The E6400 should overclock easily anyway
As said the X1950XTX only costs a fraction more and has acres more memory bandwidth (a whopping 64GB/s). However the X1900XT (not XTX) tends to be £100 cheaper and isn't far off the X1900XTX (and I suspect the X1950XTX too).
Yes bus the 1900xt will drive you insane from noise. You might as well get the ocuk 7900gto and oc it to 7900gtx speeds for £200
I don't think the X1900XT is any louder than the X1900XTX he was originally considering. It's only £15-20 for a high quality replacement cooler, should be better than that nice cooler X1950XTX use. Would the 7900GTO o/c to 7900GTX RAM speed? 1320 to 1600 seems a big ask but at least the core speed is already there. Sweet for £200, just as the X1900XT is too.
The Viewsonic VX924 is an excellent monitor for pretty much everything, and it's going for £184 on ebuyer at the moment.
