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KiltedScot - 22 September 2008 - 3:49pm
I'm looking at building my own PC, and have narrowed it down to the following items, sourced from eBuyer. I'd appreciate your comments on the suitablity or otherwise of this:
Coolermaster Elite 330 Black Case With CM eXtreme Power 460W PSU
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - OEM
Arctic Cooling AC-FRZ-7P Freezer 7 Pro Socket 775 Processor Cooler
ASUS P5KC AiLifestyle Series iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard
OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Gold GX XTC CL5 DUAL CHANNEL
MSI 8600GT Silent edition 256MB DVI HDTV PCI-E Graphics Card
Samsung SpinPoint HD501LJ 500GB SATAII Hard Drive x 2
Pioneer DVR-115DBK 20x DVD?RW Dual Layer
LiteOn LH-20A1L-14C 20X DVD±RW DL & RAM 20x20x12 SATA LightScribe
I am considering Vista, and so would possibly upgrade to 4 GB of RAM, or may just leave it as an XP system, and use 3GB.
As I say, your comments are appreciated.
KiltedScot
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Hi KiltedScot, This looks an
Barrie - 24 September 2008 - 8:30amHi KiltedScot,
This looks an impressive choice, so I assume that you want to play top end games or similar processor intensive apps?
If you choose Vista as your OS, then 4GB is a better choice. Personally I would stay with XP until Vista has matured and with 3GB it should fly. Also cheaper!
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Isitme - 24 September 2008 - 12:47pmI would go straight into Vista if I were you. It is far superior to XP and has lots of built in features which XP lacks. It requires good kit to run and this is one of the reasons so many criticised it. You will have good kit so there is no reason not to go for it. Unless you are intending to go for the 64bit version, stick with 3 Gb memory. The 32 bit version will only make use of about 3.25 Gb, so using 4 Gb is a waste.
I would also consider using an optical drive capable of reading blue ray, the writers are still very costly at the moment. Something like this would suit the bill. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139985 . I would also consider fitting a DVD Rom rather than another writer. It is very unlikely, you will need 2 DVD burners at the same time. I am not sure, but you may not be able to, even if you wanted to.