Building a PC!

SteveJH200

Please let us know how the build goes - a happy ending is always a good sign!

masscrazy

Anonmouse wrote: »

masscrazy - yup 1.5V memory so all good there.

Lil306 - sorry Intel/Nvidea fanboy here, no AMD going near my machine xD.

Windows 8 will be along long before I am replacing any hardware in this machine so don't forsee any need to get a full copy of windows 7.

All bought and paid for now: £527.25 in total (-£12.09 cashback)

GainwardGeForce GTX 560Ti 822MHz 1GB PCI-Express HDMI7BFX1 £141.63

IntelCore i5-2500 3.30GHz S1155 6MB79Q71 £150.50

GigabyteS1155 Intel Z68 DDR3 ATX7MQB1 £72.42

Corsair8GB (2x4GB) Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz CL9 XMP79V41 £31.98

Item: Antec TruePower New 650W Modular PSU
Qty: 1 Cost: £59.99

Item: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium w/SP1 - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English
Qty: 1 Cost: £70.73

Thanks all for your input.

Nice one, gona be an solid machine.

tracey3596

Sounds good. :beer:
A suggestion?
Not being funny but ....
anyone still in education there ... I mean, are you studying?

Windows7 student £39
http://www.software4students.co.uk/Windows_7-software.aspx

Just a thought/pointer:cool:

Spank

I never had any problems changing parts (or reinstalling it every 6 months) with my OEM Vista.

Anonmouse

Good News, bits finally arrived - rushed it home, built it, turned it on and all working first time

Bad News - IDE DVD drive and no IDE port on the motherboard - doh!

Also cpu fan is not moving, any chance this is down to the low temperature and it not being required? or is something kaput - power connected to the motherboard and you can't plug it in wrong, will perhaps have a play in the bios and see what it says.

Looks like I need to invest in a sata DVD drive if I actually want to install Windows 7 on this lovely new machine.

SteveJH200

..only another £15 with postage!! Don't forget to get a cable if you don't already have one!

Modern motherboards usually have 20+4 and another 4 pin connector usually yellow and black wires. Have you connected this one up?

Anonmouse

£13.99 and will be here tomorrow as amazon have decided to offer me another free trial of prime Sony as well bargain.

CPU fan is fine now, part of the power cable was in the way which stopped it

Yup all power connected including the 4 pin, trying to get my second screen to work atm

JasX

Anonmouse wrote: »

Item: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium w/SP1 - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit - English
Qty: 1 Cost: £70.73

Avoid this one at all costs -an OEM edition is licensed only for 1 use and is basically money down the drain

look for a RETAIL edition and its licensed forever either for re-use yourself or better still to sell on when you no longer need it (operating systems hold value very well on ebay).

Basically its a call of spend £70 on an OEM one and the money is gone, maybe you'll get an extra use out of it yourself if you con a microsoft person on the phone

Or spend £80 or whatever it is on RETAIL, re-use it as you like and likely get £65 - £75 back via ebay even when it's really old for a net cost of about £10 (when you are no longer using it ofc)