PC advice

[Simon Pieman]

This is my top range effort. Would be able to downgrade some of it to save cash. Obviously no psu, but you can pick up one for a tenner somewhere.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/simon_pieman/basket-1.jpg

[Simon Pieman]

Bugger, I forgot a soundcard  :|

I use on board sound anyway  

[Lash_sumthin]

yeah sounds ok i hook it up to my mixer and hifi any how. similar to my thinking early hours minus the gfx card. Though i was unsure of which ram. Think i can get away with on board gfx for a month?

Work owe me some money so id like to hold off on that if possible and get the rest built until then.

appreciated. Gonna flick through these mags now.

[Simon Pieman]

I'm buying the same ram today - read some review and looks good. And it's £10 cheaper at overclockers.co.uk than I can find elsewhere.

On-board graphics will be ok if you don't play games or use video intensive stuff (or run vista I would imagine).

[Peter Venkman]

That is a good price for that ram.

Onboard graphics are fine for anything non graphics intensive and yes Vista does run fine on them even if it has a graphics rating of about 1! and a non aero rating, but this is irrelivant if you dont play games really.

You can pick up a really basic 6200 graphics card for about £10 which would make a small amount of difference if you go for the non onboard graphics mobo.

[Simon Pieman]

Yeah just ordered that RAM now. Want to run it linked and synced with the processor, so I'll be running at 3.2ghz by default. Will probably play around to make it even quicker if I can be arsed.

Did have this machine at 3.2ghz but the current memory wasn't stable so had to pull it back to 3.1ghz. Still good for a processor rated at 2.13ghz  

[Lash_sumthin]

I need to find a decent case/psu combo for about £50/£60 think I've kinda decided on much of the other bits

was really liking this case but its out of stock  
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Cases/MIDI+Tower/Nexus+Clodius+Midi+Case+?productId=30298

maybe this combo, what do u think?
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135101

[magicroundabout]

i'm going to put them on ebay asap i think and then purchase the whole lot.

I'd hang onto some of your old memory for now - the Ballistix are designed to run at 2.2v whereas standard setting in the mobo will be 1.8v. You'll have to boot up with one of your old sticks, change the 2 slots you want to put the memory in to 2.2v and then changeover. Otherwise it probably won't boot.

That said I'm not sure the memory you're getting will just switch the voltage correctly automatically and then I've just told you a load of bollocks    
But I would hang on to some old memory in case.

As for buying an Intel processor - you won't regret it. I was going to buy an AMD before Intel launched the Core2Duo. Luckily I put off buying my kit for a couple of months to see what the score with it all was. The fact is ever since then, Intel CPUs have been faster and cheaper in all the benchmarks. They're also better to overclock. Unless you're going for the cheaper-than-Intel market, you'd be foolish to buy AMD at this moment in time.

ok so mobo and CPU first i think then.

sell old mobo and memory and jobs a good un  
i may send Foxconn an email about the ram as i've read there helpline is pretty decent.

especially as there was problems with the ram (ddr2 / ddr3) issue
http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=getarticle&articID=648

[Simon Pieman]

Fuck me that is good support. I suppose a little internet review pressure helped but still...

All I know is that some boards have issues with the voltages. I know mine did because loads of people couldn't boot their machine at default 1.8v (the board was originally designed for 800mghz speed memory). I think you should be ok tbh. I'd just hang onto 2gb of RAM and sell the rest, once your system works fine then sell the other 2gb of memory.

[magicroundabout]

i would assume that if it can support up to 1333mhz ram then the mobo should correct it's self to the higher voltages?

but i think i'll take your advise and hold back on 2gig just incase!!!

i may wait on the ram until next payday and just get mobo + cpu

[Lash_sumthin]

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/55/pc2cp3.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8025/pc3ej3.jpg

probably gonna order this lot with gfx to follow. Cheers for the help all

[Lash_sumthin]

just seen this chances of it being outta stock come monday?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-018-OK&groupid=&catid=&subcat= :|

[Simon Pieman]

Fuck me that looks silly for the money. If I had the money I'd buy one and sell my current one for the same sort of price!

[Simon Pieman]

I think they've fucked up the price. Buy buy buy!

[Lash_sumthin]

obviously cocked it up which no doubt is in the t's and c's somewhere  

found it AFTER ordering my parts too - useless

2.3 Every effort is made to ensure that prices shown on the Supplier's website are accurate at the time you place your order. If an error is found, the Supplier will inform you as soon as possible and offer you the option of reconfirming your order at the correct price, or cancelling your order. If the Supplier does not receive an order confirmation within 14 days of informing you of the error, the order will be cancelled automatically. If you cancel, the Supplier will refund or re-credit you for any sum that has been paid by you or debited from your credit card for the goods.