somone check my setup before i order

[nitricacid4k]

can somone check through this see if i have missed anything or can spot for improvment somewhere i want to be able to crossfire in the future


Qty Product Description QuickFind Cost (ex VAT) Line Cost
1 x Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Thermal paste 3.5gram 126410 £4.78 £4.78
1 x Hiper 580W Type-M Black PSU - SLI Certified with APFC 109552 £34.37 £34.37
1 x Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping (2.4GHz 1066MHz) Socket 775 L2 8MB Cache (2x4MB (4MB per core pair) Retail Boxed Processor 131950 £117.43 £117.43
1 x ABIT IP35 Pro XE iP35 Socket 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard 145990 £86.79 £86.79
1 x OCZ 2GB Kit(2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory NVIDIA SLI Ready CL4 Unbuffered 2.1V 128016 £29.10 £29.10
1 x Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM 131301 £31.42 £31.42
1 x Arctic Cooling AC-FRZ-7P Freezer 7 Pro Socket 775 Processor Cooler 105994 £12.72 £12.72
1 x Aplus Twin Engine Case - Front 250mm Blue LED Fan Side 250mm Fan - No PSU 123912 £57.26 £57.26
Shipping £11.80
Subtotal £385.67
VAT £67.54
Order Total £453.21

i will also be ordering a Xpertvision 1GB Radeon HD 4850 Sonic PCI Express 2.0 R but through ebay

[broona]

Looking through on other forums, many, many people have had problems with Hiper power supplies, so personally I'd go for a Corsair, Antec, etc.

And why only 2gb of RAM? You may as well buy 4gb for only an extra fiver or so, i.e. - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146049.

Other than that, looks like a good spec.

[nitricacid4k]

1 x Arctic Silver 5 High-Density Polysynthetic Silver Thermal Compound Thermal paste 3.5gram 126410 £4.78 £4.78
1 x Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0 Stepping (2.4GHz 1066MHz) Socket 775 L2 8MB Cache (2x4MB (4MB per core pair) Retail Boxed Processor 131950 £117.43 £117.43
1 x ABIT IP35 Pro XE iP35 Socket 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard 145990 £86.79 £86.79
1 x Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM 131301 £31.42 £31.42
1 x Arctic Cooling AC-FRZ-7P Freezer 7 Pro Socket 775 Processor Cooler 105994 £12.72 £12.72
1 x Aplus Twin Engine Case - Front 250mm Blue LED Fan Side 250mm Fan - No PSU 123912 £57.26 £57.26
1 x OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 800Mhz/PC2-6400 Memory GOLD DUAL CHANNEL Unbuffered CL5(5-5-5-18) 146049 £34.03 £34.03
1 x Corsair 550W VX Series PSU - 120mm Fan, 5 Year Warranty 132563 £48.86 £48.86
1 x Optiarc AD-7201S 20X DVD±RW/RAM LightScribe SATA Black Bare Drive - Boxed with Nero 8 *Worth £4.50* 144217 £13.57 £13.57


will a 550w psu be enough to power that lot? what if i wanted crossfire the hd4850 in future as they use 2 pci-e power lines per card??

[{{909}}]

id go for a faster dual core CPU, ive read the 3ghz dual core can quite easily be clocked to 4ghz if you are feeling adventurous. you will only need 4gig ram if you are going to use Vista too, I think XP can only aceess 3gig.

The PSU should be fine, I would agree on the Hiper PSU issue, lately they have gone downhill.

[nitricacid4k]

trouble is duo core is been moved away from and quads will be the future games like gta4 for the pc will use all 4 quads

the q6600 can be overclocked to 3.6 without watercooling with the artic cooler apparantly

overclockers sell this bundle to garantee 3.3ghz which they charge an extra 50 quid for.... which is a shame as i would buy of them as there 5 minutes down the road but id rather pay ebuyer 50 quid less

[broona]

That's the same PSU as I use, it powered the following system with no problems :-

Q6600 @ 3ghz
Volt modded 512mb Radeon 3850
4X1gb Ballistix RAM
2X320gb SATA HDD's
2XDVD-RW
Multiple USB devices

You'll be fine with a single card, but not sure on the power requirements for Crossfire.

[nitricacid4k]

Antec 650W Neopower Modular PSU - Blue LED 12CM Fan brought that one

purchasing the pc in 2 seperate bits as its going cost more than i thought lol

ive brought so far
Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM
Aplus Twin Engine Case - Front 250mm Blue LED Fan Side 250mm Fan - No PSU
Antec 650W Neopower Modular PSU - Blue LED 12CM Fan

Order Total £188.88 will order the rest on pay day i think just to be safe

[blacksheep]

I'd swap the psu and for the extra £10 or so double up the hd in size. Also not the biggest abit fan

[nitricacid4k]

thats just my os hard drive i have bigger storage drives just need something quick to load appz off

will be sticking a 1tb drive in as a slave for all my downloaded data (already have)

[neo2810]

you will only need 4gig ram if you are going to use Vista too, I think XP can only aceess 3gig.

Only 64bit Windows can access all 4Gb on both Vista and XP. It's the 32bit versions which run 3Gb max. I'm running 4Gb on XP 64bit happily.

[eblaster101]

i have the same power supply and not had any real issues, am powering the same spec q6600 with 4 hard drives and 4 dvd rws no problems. one issue i had was if i turn of the power supply from the back, the next time i turn it on and power the pc straight away it would shut down for a sec and then power up. But not an issue as long as you leave it powered from the rear switch.