new com

[sinestro]

building a new com as 1 of mine desided 2 blow up on me LOL


bought this motherboard
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-MA7 ... =de_a_smtd


what would be the best Processor for it??

have a 500gb stata hd for it and a 1bg graphics card(cant remmber which 1 lol)(ill look later and say later)
have this on order http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liteon-IHAS324- ... mputers_35

thinking of getting this http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/10136934/ ... oduct.html

ram im not sure on yet cause i cant buy it yet ~_~ LOL but there was a 4gb ram down from 195 to 44 lol but now up to 80 lol

what u lot think??

[SpAzErMaN]

List of supported processors:

AMD Phenom FX, (hoity toity version)
AMD Phenom X4, (Quad core)
AMD Phenom X3, (tri core)
AMD Athlon X2,(dual core)
AMD Athlon, (single core?)
AMD Sempron X2, (dual core shitty)
AMD Sempron (shitty)

Thats essentially a list from awesome to crappy being at the bottom. Decide on your budget and hunt around for those. For Gaming I wouldn't take anything less than an Phenom X3, unless your videocard is from the stone age (better post what kind it is).

Whatever ram you decide, it has to be DDR2. Higher latency is faster, even though you won't notice much speed with high latency and that motherboard, so cheap is alright. Yours supports up to 1200 latency. Dont get more than 4 gigs, pointless.

Dont forget about the Operating system ( Vista or 7) and a processor cooler if the one you buy doesnt come with one. In a week I might be able to sell you vista for cheap if you like.

That PSU is cheap, you take a risk with cheap ones. I always get Corsair, but your call.

[sinestro]

nvidia geforce gt 220 1gb

can u use yr old Operating system from another com??still have the code from my windows xp and the cd....
is xp 64 any good ?? i can get my hands on it

[fl00d3d]

I'm too lazy to read through all of this right now (hey, at least I'm honest right?)...

But I can tell you that more cores and more cache is way more important than speed. If you're building a gaming rig that you're expecting to be game intensive, I'd go more for cache than cores if you had to choose. If the computer will be used for gaming, but also a lot of other things - then you might want to er more on the side of "multitasking" friendly and get strong cores. My 2 cents for now.

[SpAzErMaN]

lol flood.

Hate to break it to you sinestro, but that is a pretty terrible video card.

You will run Ren maxed no doubt, same with Generals, but any new games will be on the lowest settings.

XP 64bit will work fine, ensure its patched though. Also will only support up to directX9.

Same one as mine:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product
It can run any game so far on high, if not highest.... and its not even that new anymore (game "graphics" pretty much leveled out 2 years ago)

Could also go with one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product

If you insist on keeping the card you have, then thats ok, but the rest of the system would be kind of overkill.

[sinestro]

it will do me till i get it up and running then i can save for a better 1 lol

have 2 wait till after christmas but before i can buy more stuff lol

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Liteon-IHAS324- ... mputers_35

have that drive on way

[fl00d3d]

lol flood.

Haha, u like my custom emote? xD

[darkdarr]

this thread makes me feel like i know nothing about good hardware for a computer

but also makes me feel like i need to upgrade my laptop

[SpAzErMaN]

Yes flooded, its very nice. Do I get one too?

Im gonna be downgrading my laptop, actually. The alienware is nice but I need something that lasts for longer than an hour on battery. Problem is, usually thin and light and battery saving = crappyish graphics. c'est la vie.

Yeah Sinstro, that drive should work just fine. And yeah upgrading the video card down the road works too. 700watts kinda seems excessive, you probably only need a 500.

[darkdarr]

yea i have a Sony VAIO FW and it only has a 3 hour battery life due to the 1080p screen and it being 17in thats why its almost always plugged in.

[sinestro]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colors--750w-Si ... 13&sr=1-32

how about this 1?

[rly its me aceyboy1]

long time no see everyone. sorry wayy off topic but i can not find where i can post unregistered because i forgot my pass/username and it wont let me re register because my email is in use so can some1reset that for me please.