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#1 Jamieaawroe
Member since 2007 • 25 Posts
Hey, just building my first pc, and was hoping for a little help! I'm not too worried about installing all the components however I very new at choosing those components. I hope this would all run fine, however I though I'd best ask for help from people who actually know what they're doing before spending 600 pound + on something that might not work!!. Casing: Just picked a case with no psu and fans.------------------------------------------http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150291 Motherboard: Asus P5Q-E P45 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard---- http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145747 CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141515 CPU Fan: Arctic Cooling AC-FRZ-7P Freezer 7 --------------------------------------------- http://www.ebuyer.com/product/105994 PSU: 800w (no idea on what to choose here) ---------------------------------------------- http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135197 Memory: 8gb (4 x 2gb) (2 x Kingston 4GB DDR2 1066MHz packs) ------------------ http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148859 Graphics card: ATI HD 4870 1GB GDDR5 ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.ebuyer.com/product/164557 Hard Drive: Western Digital 500GB SATAII 7200RPM 16MB Cache ------------------- http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124228 I guess my main questions are: Will it actually all fit together and boot up? Will it work well? or have I got a bottleneck somewhere slowing it down Also since it's costing me around 600 poundish is that about what I should be paying? all the hardware will be bough from ebuyer.com, and Windows will be bought from amazon.co.uk Any help would be massively appreciated. Cheers!!
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#2 JackLKing
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It looks fine and will run just fine.....Just make sure when you install windows only put in 2 memory sticks in first till you get windows installed...Make sure you use a 64bit operating system so that all that memory will work and show up correctly

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#3 iliatay
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every thing will work but for the power supply i recommend this http://www.ebuyer.com/product/152506bcuz it has a better brand and a high effeciancy and i have it right now and it runs great. oh and also u dont need 8gb RAM so i reccomend 4gb but thats just me. though i cant belive how expensive it is in england.

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#4 Mitjastiskovski
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Good built only problem is that you are gonna spend £600 on a dead socket lol. Personally I would go for an AMD AM3 build, should cost about the same and performence would be better plus you get more future proofing. Also 8GB of RAM is a little bit overkill, 6GB should be more than enought. Might be a good idea two wait two months for ATI HD5000 series to be released, the prices of the current cards might drop a little bit.

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#5 Jamieaawroe
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Thanks everyone, what about if I just use this system as stated but with my current pc's graphics card for a couple of months then? its a much worse card (Radeon x1600 512mb) but hopefully should make do until I get my new one.
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#6 jamesfffan
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I put together a rig in another thread, it is AMD, I'm an Intel man myself, but this AMD rig should be brilliant for you. £740 or there abouts, you could cut some of the price by getting the AMD phenom II x4 945 black edition, and removing the Ati HD 4870 from the build, and using your x1600 I think you said until the 5870's are out. Hope this helps. All parts from www.overclockers.co.uk

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