Few Questions - Building New PC

Jakejakejake

Hi,

Just a quick question,

Do you get a cooling fan in the Retail Boxed Versions of Pentium D Processors?
(http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=114196)

Is THIS MOTHERBOARD Compatible with the following Components

DDR2 1gb PC2-4200 RAM
PCI-Express Graphics Card
DVD Writer
SATA Hard Drive

Im ok at putting it all together but not very sure with buying the correct equiptment. Any help much appreciated!

Cheers,
Jake :snow_grin

Blacksheep1979

yes and yes, although thats a sataII drive so you'll have to set some jumpers on the back of it as the board only accepts sata.

Jakejakejake

cheers mate!! i think i will order the rest now.

Can any1 also tell me what cables i need to purchase??

Cheers,
Jake

nintendosensei

Is your budget rigid or can it be worked with? Because unless you really want all those parts i'll see if i can put a rig together for a little more but a bit better.

Jakejakejake

How much more are you saying, £50, £100?

I can maybe stretch to a bit more, but i have already bought everything apart from the Ram, Mobo + Processor.

Cheers,
Jake

nintendosensei

No more than £50, it would be unreasonable. But i'm thinking about the motherboard and RAM mostly. A good motherboard and good RAM would make this pc able to last a long time as you'd be able to just replace parts out in the future in there without changing much else. Thats a good processor you've chosen there, all we need is some good RAM to compliment it. You could try and push it a little farther also, a small overclock to say 3.2 Ghz would be easily acheivable.

nintendosensei

One more thing, on ebuyer you're buying 1 stick of RAM are you likely to buy another one in the future or could i get you 2 sticks of 512 instead?

Jakejakejake

nintendosensei wrote:

No more than £50, it would be unreasonable. But i'm thinking about the motherboard and RAM mostly. A good motherboard and good RAM would make this pc able to last a long time as you'd be able to just replace parts out in the future in there without changing much else. Thats a good processor you've chosen there, all we need is some good RAM to compliment it. You could try and push it a little farther also, a small overclock to say 3.2 Ghz would be easily acheivable.

Could you suggest some for me plz?????

Thanks for your help,
Jake

Jakejakejake

nintendosensei wrote:

One more thing, on ebuyer you're buying 1 stick of RAM are you likely to buy another one in the future or could i get you 2 sticks of 512 instead?

I proberly would upgrade a bit more in the future but money is limited at the moment!

Cheers
Jake

nintendosensei

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/74116/rb/24053685544
Good memory, gives you the option to add another stick to run it dual channel.£68
Good GPU £45
http://www.ginger6.com/xpertvision-256mb-7300gt-pcie-retail-p-11712.html
A future-proof motherboard if you wish to upgrade to core 2 duo £53
http://shop.pyroport.com/product_info.php?products_id=1575

Slightly over, £53 more, but it should be a better match

nintendosensei

Try and use quidco to get a bit back on the memory, But you won't get much, if thats too much i'll try and go cheaper but thats a pretty good machine. In regards to overclocking, once you get it up and running look at your temps and maybe take a look at overclock.net and get some advice.