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« on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 08:11:45 » |
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Hi guys, Its about time I got a new computer seeing as I've had my laptop for three years, and now I want to get a decent desktop. I'm a web designer by trade, so have some specific requirements. Somebody has suggested that I build my own. At first, the thought scared the hell out of me, but on doing some research it seems its no so hard as I first thought. It will need to be able to cope easily with the Adobe web creative suite, and anything else I can throw at it, so I'd like a pretty powerful machine. I have a budget of around £800, so hopefully this is enough to get myself a top-spec machine. Would anybody be able to give me some useful resoruces on exactly how to build the computer (I've found some, not sure how good they are yet) and also maybe spec me some components? I'm happy to get all I need from overclockers  I've been recommended a Lian Li case, not sure if this is good or bad, but there we go. Any help is very much appreciated Cheers |
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« Reply #1 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 08:25:59 » |
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Have a look on the overclockers.co.uk forum if you haven't already. Tons of info on there and plenty of helpful people who know what they are talking about!
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« Reply #2 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 08:28:58 » |
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Actually, I have.
Just wanted to know what the STFC masseev had to say.
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #3 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 08:35:10 » |
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£800 will easily get you a very decent machine. IMO the E series Intel CPU's give you the most bang for your buck. Something like this E8400 would be more than enough for what you want. 2GB RAM, semi-decent graphics card. If you just search products by popularity on ebuyer and then read the reviews you'll get a good idea. As for putting the PC together, it's mostly a piece of piss, the only difficulties you may run into is knowing where to connect everything on the motherboard. |
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« Reply #4 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 08:39:27 » |
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ZX81 - You need a 16k Ram Pack though!
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« Reply #5 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 08:41:57 » |
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£800 will easily get you a very decent machine. IMO the E series Intel CPU's give you the most bang for your buck. Something like this E8400 would be more than enough for what you want. 2GB RAM, semi-decent graphics card. If you just search products by popularity on ebuyer and then read the reviews you'll get a good idea. As for putting the PC together, it's mostly a piece of piss, the only difficulties you may run into is knowing where to connect everything on the motherboard. Thanks for that Samuel. Any online tutorials for telling me how to do the motherboard shizz? Also, is getting 4gb RAM being greedy? |
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 08:48:40 » |
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Always put as much ram as possible in, its dirt cheap at the mo, and you can never have too much particularly with Vista.
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« Reply #8 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 12:56:08 » |
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If you want a decent monitor, be prepared to budget in another £200-250.
An E7200 is a great overclocker if you're looking to do that.
4gb of RAM is not greedy for Vista. It needs 700mb just running idle (or so I've read). You'll have to look at what Sam posted though.
Lian Li are nice cases but really expensive. Probably better off getting a cheaper Coolermaster and using your budget elsewhere.
Motherboard wise I'd get one with an Intel P35 chipset. It overclocks well and uses cheaper DDR2 RAM, which performs just as well as DDR3 RAM at the moment.
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« Reply #9 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 13:10:24 » |
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On another note is it possible to upgrade processors in Laptops?
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 13:11:25 » |
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Yes, but you'd have to get one that matches the chipset of your motherboard.
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 13:17:51 » |
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I have a broken Toshiba satellite with 2Gb RAM, and a new Dell with 2Gb RAM. What are the chances of the mempry from my broken laptop being compaible with my new purchase, and how easy is that sort of thing to do?
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« Reply #12 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 13:30:44 » |
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Laptops tend to only have one RAM slot, if so then even if RAM in the Tosh is the same type as in the Dell you won't be able to have both in one machine.
If your laptop does have two and the RAM stick fits then try it, it won't cause any lasting damage. If it doesn't boot up then you know the RAM isn't compatible.
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« Reply #13 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 13:31:34 » |
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Sweet. I'll give that a bash then.
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« Reply #14 on: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 13:43:14 » |
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Yes, but you'd have to get one that matches the chipset of your motherboard.
So upgrading a Celeron to a normal Intel processor is probably out of the question then? |
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