New PC home built does this sound fine

savemoney

Building a new PC next week hopefully after hunting around. Parts mainly coming from Novatech but might get ram from Ebuyer as its a lot cheaper

What are yours views on spec below? I am also adding a new KVM (must be DVI and go over 2040x? resolution and new Samsung 24" monitor I been saving fro ages for this pc but monitor will wait for a while

Here goes Green PC

Case
Antec Sonata III 500 Case with 500Watt PSU (green psu) £75

Ram
[strike]2x Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR3 1333MHz/PC3-10666 XMS3 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered
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Corsair Twin2X 4GB DDR2 (2x2048MB) XMS2 Dominator 8500C5



possibly
May got for Geil or Crucial

Graphics
Sapphire HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 Dual DVI TV Out PCI-E Graphics Card £128

DVDROM
Pioneer DVR-215DB 20x SATA DVD+/-RW/RAM Black OEM £20

Mobo
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS4 (green mobo) £100

CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 2 x 3.00Ghz 6Mb Cache 1333 FSB Dual Core Processor £116 OEM (need a new cooler)
May go for Quad Core yet

Storage HD
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750GB SATA II 7200rpm 16Mb Cache 9ms 300Mb/s

Also adding for excisting PC (dual core 2 2.4) couple of SATA Hard drives £61

Need a new KVM must support high resolution with DVI for 2 pc's

PC used for gaming/photo's/video/compressing data and documents

OS = XP [pro] with Vista dual boot on two hard drives (yeah keep putting off Vista)

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For the RAM look at OCZ, they're a really fantastic make.

Go for the Intel Q660 processor.

Get one of the Samsung Spinpoint 1TB drives.

I'd possibly look at another case than the Sonata's. They're ok but for heat dissipation and airflow they're not great. An Antec 300 with a Corsair PSU would be better. You need better airflow with the 4850 as they get really hot.

Definately get a decent cooler, Zalman make good ones.

For a mobo, look at the Asus P45 boards.

savemoney

Thanks looked at the Asus which also has green credentials, I will check on case/cooler/ram didnt know the Sapphire HD 4850 gets too hot, heard its good card for money usually go for Nvidia

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savemoney wrote: »

Thanks looked at the Asus which also has green credentials, I will check on case/cooler/ram didnt know the Sapphire HD 4850 gets too hot, heard its good card for money usually go for Nvidia

It's a very good card, but on load it can push 90degrees in temperature. Unless you want to fit an aftermarket cooler, then you need a decent set up to get air out of the case well.

banger9365

you have one slight problem with all that your ram and motherboard

your ram is DDR3
your motherboard takes DDR2
hope you have not ordered them
:rolleyes:
this is becoming a common mistack

StuntmanBob

Personally I only ever use Crucial memory - never had a problem.

I know folks who have been unable to send faulty RAM back to ebuyer - they take it back , "test it", says it's ok then send it back to you again.

savemoney

Oops sorry your right about ram. No haven't ordered anything yet just getting ready for parts it will be next week when I do

Thought it was odd about the price

Is there anything to gain much by a quad core or best go for dual core 2?

I was thinking of going for next Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.16) but its almost £50 more than a E8400 (3.00Ghz)

savemoney

I was looking at that earlier very tempting

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?IL-Q6600E

Intel Quad Core Q6600 95Watt G0 Stepping (This is the one that Overclocks) 4 x 2.40Ghz 8Mb Cache 1066 FSB Quad Core Processor

be_alright wrote: »

For the RAM look at OCZ, they're a really fantastic make.

Go for the Intel Q660 processor.

globalds

I would go for the quad core
I just built one for my daughter
Antec 900 case ...Very cool ,and very cool
Q6600 slacr with a zalman cooler ...Like this one


The cores are running around 30 degrees
I bought 4 gig the OCZ ddr2 ram off ebuyer ..Runs a cas 4.4.4.15 at 2.1v
p5k mobo (although I wanted the p5kE)
I went for the Zotac 8800 GT graphics found on hotukdeals
and the samsung spinpoint 750 gig hard drive
I stuck in a samsung SATA dvd writer from play.com.
..This machine runs very cool and so quiet all fans are set to lowest .
The newer cases seem to be fitting the PSU at the bottom of the case ..This seems to help with the air flow .
The other machine I have is in a coolermaster wavemaster case ....This is not patch on the antec for cooling.

savemoney

Thanks is the case cool to keep your choc ices/beer

I saw that the 1200 case looks similar to 900

1200 http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?ANT-1200
900 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-065-AN

That Zalman cooler isn't cheap £41

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?ZAL-S9700L

globalds

I would find out what components you want .Then scour the web to find the best price .
The only one I messed up on was the mobo ...Bought from Misco (and that will be the last item I buy from them) ...It came up in the P5k-E list and was only slightly cheapest ..Only to arrive and then realise it was only p5k ...
Scan is cheap and I think the hexus forum link is still a way to get free delivery ..If you post a few times on the forum.
Hotukdeals is good if you have a bit of time to wait for a bargain ..
And good ol' Ebay is worth checking out
I got a nice Corsair PSU from scan I forgot to mention earlier.
I only loaded up XP as the kids moan about vista issues .