Looking for Case, psu and graphics card

**Little John** · 11th April 2011

Well the PC packed in on Saturday morning. perfect example of a knackered board where the fans spin for an eighth of a turn and everything stays off, well thats what it normally is, I have had the odd PSU die and display the same thing.

So time for the core2 quad 6600 on an asus P5Q WS with 2GB of ram to go in the bin and buy a new board CPU and memory.

Bought the kit along with a few hard drives for storeage put it all together on Sunday tried the old board just for kicks and the bugger fired up, screw it I7 and 8gb here I come so I put it all together and installed windows 7 ultimate. Stuck the 3 drives in and nothing, fan spinning 1 eigth of a turn like the old board. balls �500 down and its the PSU.

So i got a new PSU today and its all up and running just gotta install all the software

Anyway not wanting to waste the old board and CPU Im gonna upgrade my bedroom PC but its a Dell dimension 3100 so wont take the ATX board so I need a case, PSU and graphics card.

I want somthing reasonably quiet I leave the PC on 24/7, and decent for photo editing no playing games I have another 4 GB of ram to go in it as well. No way do I want to spend another �100+ on a PSU but will pay for somthing reasonable and reliable.
Case no lights or shit, plenty of bays for hard drives would be nice, I have a 1TB in the dell which will come accross and I may either use my 2x76gb scsi drives or 3x160gb and make a raid from them for the system drive.

Ohh yeah I'm shopping at scan as they are local.

so any recomendations?

**broona** · 11th April 2011

Perfect case - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/fract...r-case-w-o-psu

PSU - http://www.scan.co.uk/products/430w-...-rail-atx-ps-2

GPU - Anything that takes your fancy if you're not gaming!

**Little John** · 11th April 2011

I like the sound or lack of sound in that case.

GPU I may use the nvidia 8500GT in this and put it in the bedroom one and buy somthing else for the new machine. hmmmm as it is what lets it down int he windows 7 score. gotta stop im going back to my old ways of measuring my dick with a benchmark test result.