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on: April 15, 2006, 08:41:50 AM
Hi all

Looking into buying a new PC and probably spend about £1300~ on everything except a keyboard, monitor and speakers.

Im definitely going down the AMD route and was looking at the following hardware from Scan.co.uk

AMD Opteron 64 165 Socket939 , Denmark Core, 2x 1.8GHz , 2MB Cache, Retail  Ã‚£178.75 £210.03  - Cheapest dual core 2mb L2 cache Athlon 64 I could find. Will defo be overclocking.

512MB XFX 7900GTX Mem Clock 1600 MHz ,GPU 650 MHz , 24 Pipes, Dual DVI-I , HDTV  Ã‚£324.95 £381.82  - Cheapest 7900GXT I could find.
 
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music Sound Card  Ã‚£64.29 £75.54  - Is this about the best gaming sound card out there?
 
2GB (2X1GB) Corsair TwinX DDR2, PC4000 (500), 184 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 3-4-4-8  Ã‚£129.89 £152.62  WRONGLY LISTED AS DDR2
 
4 x 80 GB HGST (IBM/Hitachi) Deskstar 7K80 , SATA II , 7200 rpm , 8MB Cache ,NCQ  Ã‚£29.48 £138.56  - Yep, 4, going for serious RAID 0!
 
600W Silverstone Strider ST60F Quiet SLi Dual PCI-E EPS12v ATX Quad 12v v2.01 120mm Fan PSU £76.69 £90.11

Coolermaster Stacker RC-830 Silver Trim with Black Mesh w/o PSU Super-Hi End £135.89 £159.67

NEC ND-4570A-GNB Black 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer DVD-Writer OEM UK  Ã‚£23.22 £27.28

1.44Mb Sony Black Floppy Disk Drive OEM  Ã‚£3.99 £4.69 - Going to need one as I have Win XP 64bit and wont be getting Vista for a while, so need a Floppy for setting up raid drivers :(

Just need a motherboard, mouse and a CPU cooling solution.  Ill probably go for a DFI Lan Party board from elsewhere as Scan dont sell them.  As for a mouse, need some recommendations.  I want a really good GAMING mouse, preferably wired(unless its a wireless one with NO lag), uses a laser and it must have buttons on the side of the mouse for using in games.  As for cooling, Ive already got a Thermochill 120.3 radiator and a Eheim 1250 pump, so would only need a waterblock, reservoir and tubing.  Anyone got any recommendations on a waterblock?  Paulus?  Shaun?  Having said that, Im really tempted to go all air cooling as Im not too sure whether I can do with the hassle of watercooling and noise wont be an issue.

Anyone got any suggestions on the rest of the system?  Anything that they think should be changed?

Cheers guys
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Reply #1 on: April 15, 2006, 08:47:48 AM
Hello :) the walrus is back :)
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Reply #2 on: April 15, 2006, 08:48:44 AM
Yep :D  So out of the loop though now :(
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Reply #3 on: April 15, 2006, 09:05:07 AM
Starting to make new machine for my son, will be socket 939 m-atx have a nice but used antec aluminum case to start with.
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Reply #4 on: April 15, 2006, 09:20:09 AM
Great stuff, what CPU you going for?  Single or dual core?
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Reply #5 on: April 15, 2006, 09:50:59 AM
I think single core, should be cheap but possible to play games on, he has a 440 BX with a convertor to use a tualatin celery at 1.4 gH and a ati 9200 which works amazingly well he plays CS over steam with no problems.
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Reply #6 on: April 15, 2006, 10:37:02 AM
Probably going to just go air cooling too, that Coolmaster Stacker case can take 9 120mm fans.  So, maybe go for a Thermalright XP-90C or XP120.
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Reply #7 on: April 15, 2006, 11:57:07 AM
I have an opteron 170 and you certainly wont be disappointed with the dual core opterons, mine reaches fx60 levels on default volts with the retail heatsink.

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Reply #8 on: April 15, 2006, 12:05:27 PM
I got a DFI Lan Party and it was the Bees-Kness when i got it but im not sure whats out there now. Mine overclocks well and does the job.
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Reply #9 on: April 15, 2006, 12:34:29 PM
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I have an opteron 170 and you certainly wont be disappointed with the dual core opterons, mine reaches fx60 levels on default volts with the retail heatsink.



Exactly what I hope to achieve :)
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Reply #10 on: April 15, 2006, 12:35:31 PM
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I got a DFI Lan Party and it was the Bees-Kness when i got it but im not sure whats out there now. Mine overclocks well and does the job.


Yeah, thinking about the DFI Lan Party Expert board........
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Reply #11 on: April 15, 2006, 13:26:32 PM
yeah deffo wont be dissapointed with the x2, its a bit improvment :)

I wouldent go for the 4 diskis in raid tho, knightfever has 4 x 200gig sata1 drives in raid 0, and tbh theres no difference in preformance over just 2 disks :o
(no difference in benchmarks, and cant notice any difference using it)

tho maybe a proper hardware raid card might improve things ?.... especially if you can find one for the PCI-E slot ? tho there mega bucks iirc :(

I just got a logitech G7 lazer wireless moust too, its £60 for a mouse, but it rocks, no lag at all, 1 side button, nice wheel movement, and the wheel can go left and right too (tho ive never used that)
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Reply #12 on: April 15, 2006, 13:31:39 PM
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wheel movement, and the wheel can go left and right too (tho ive never used that)


my £20 m$ mouse has done that about 2 years ago  :P
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Reply #13 on: April 15, 2006, 13:34:54 PM
Cheers Knighty... Looking into the HD situation at the moment.  Was already thinking of going down the 2 disk route instead from a power/heat point of view.  But also, 2 larger drives will have larger platters, and larger platters means faster drives.  So, looking at 2 x 250 GB HGST (IBM/Hitachi) Deskstar T7K250 , SATA II , 7200 rpm , 8MB Cache ,NCQ.  Theyve got 125GB platters, as opposed to the 40GB ones in the 80GB drives I was looking at before.

Already looked at that mouse and not totally impressed by the lack of buttons and placement of buttons.  Think I may carry on using my MS intellimouse V1.1 for a while before I decide on anything.
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Reply #14 on: April 15, 2006, 13:38:30 PM
Scan?  :shock:

How about a Raptor or two?

The newer MS wireless mice have months of battery life.
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