The (new) Official PC building thread!

Some DFI boards have 8 S-ATA ports, and integrated RAID5. Some Asus boards such as the A8N-SLI Premium had 8 as well I think.

 

Thought that I would link to the 500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s at newegg.com for everyone that is interested. They are all priced below $149.99 and a few are less than $110.

Take into the equation that these are backwards compatible with the 1.5Gb/s mobos and work like a champ.

rick I hope that no one offended you and I'm sure it wasn't meant that way. I linked to some great deals and of course there's other online retailers like zipzoomfly.com and tigerdirect.com.

hth.....

....gm

 

no offense was intended by any means. I was simply trying to explain the reason for high prices of SATA 150 hdd's.

 

By no means was I offended,I thought maybe I was offending some here.This site has been a great asset to me.Afterdawn over all has showed me a lot of help over the years on equipment to programs to best media.Also the best site for all the how toos

 

Im planning to build a new computer in December and ive made one up through the parts from my cousins friends store.
What im aiming for is to run Colin Mc Rae DIRT on high without lag would this system do it?
And do you think it is GOod
Nothing can be chnaged to anything more epxensive as its already too much for me but i will manage.


Intel DG33TLM Motherboard


Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 CPU, 3.0 GHz


Seagate 320GB 'ST3320620AS' SATA II 3Gb/s


corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4DHX 2GB (2x XMS2 1GB) PC-6400 (800MHz) DDR2 RAM,

Sony SATA BLACK AWG170SB2 Internal DL Multiformat


Inno3D GF 8600GT PCI-E 512MB DDR2 PCI-E

750W "SilverStone" ST75F Power Supply
Antec "Nine Hundred" Tower Gaming Case with Side Window

 

The CPU's overkill, the graphics card's underpowered. Go for something like an X1950GT or 8800GTS, and an E6750 instead.

Another person who wants the Antec 900 case?
Hardly anybody seems to choose anything else these days!

 

meh.
CPU is Fine i will leave it you can never have to much power
Graphics card yes i know but its only 187au and its DirectX10 which i want and the X1950 has DirectX9 and is 279au as long as the 8600GT can give me 30+fps at 1024x768 im happy because its not lagging anotehr choice would be the 2600HD but i thought 8600 is better?

 

The 8600GT will seriously drag. If not now, then soon. it's no better than a 7600GT, which is an old mid-range card.

 

Whats better 8600Gt or 2600HD???

 

Not sure, neither are that great in all honesty.
If you want a reasonable amount of graphics power on DX10 for low cost, get an 8600GTS. That should run DIRT alright.

 

I see is the 8600GTS alot better then the 8600GT since the price is about 150au more?
I think i should manage that but that 8800 320mb GTS is 500 i think that is a bit too high.

 

this one http://www.altech.com.au/products/showDetails.asp?prodID=13963
?

 

dazila you can save $90 by going to the E6750 and if you are afraid of NOT having enough power you can OC the E6750 over 3.0GHz or so and have PLENTY of POWER!!

Sam is right on the GPU. You need more there and would be better off looking at some a LITTLE more suited to your needs.

With what you saved you can get this card and step up a little bit but not quite to the 8800GTS or 8800GTX GPU.

I'm not saying you can solve your "problems" with the card I linked to but it's better than what you were looking at and changed your OUTFLOW very little if you change GPU's and CPU's.

....gm

 

@dazila

For the computer you are building you sure are skimping on the GPU end. Skip the 8600GT as everyone recommends and the GTS variant as well. I know that you'd like to own a DX10 card now, but for the price it's not worth the money. The Radeon x1950GT is plenty powerful for a low cost...and you can even find OEM versions of the x1900GT ver.2 for under $100USD. I'm running a sapphire x1900GT rev.2 OC'ed to 555/1512 using ATIT (I heard it's not suppose to work, but it works on mine.) Upgrade to a DX10 card later when games actually call for DX10 cards, by that time maybe there will be something new from Nvidia or ATI.

 

Ill just go for the 3ghz Core 2 E6850 and the eVGA Geforce 8600GTS 512mb GDDR3 something like 700mhz/2000mhz memory.
Or if im going for a DX9 card i will go for the X1950 series
But the reason im planing to buy ahead is because this PC has to last atleast 2 Years the graphics card maybe 1 or so years before any chnages are happening no i will not go cheap on the CPU because i will no overclock anything until warranty goes.
I want to know when we will see game not run on DX 9 only DX10 that worries me??

 

Well, DX10 games are starting to appear now, but you'll need Vista to run them in it, so the real question is, how long do you want to wait before using Vista?
If your PC's got to last you a long time, you will seriously regret it if you don't get a decent graphics card.

 

dazilla,
I still say the E6850 is overkill for a CPU. Your limited by the GPU not the cpu in this case. The E6750 will last over 5 years and you're already talking about replacing the GPU in a year. lol. Spend the savings on a BETTER GPU and NOT replace it for 2 plus years. The E6750 will do just fine until you want to "test" the OC ability.

jm2c.....

If you just gotta have the E6850 save for a month or two more and get the better card, you'll be happier I think.

....gm

 

In gaming at least, I doubt you'll even notice the difference between the two.

 

Hey the Imam of my Masjid wants me to build him a computer within 500 dollars. You guys got any suggestions?

 

Hmm this is hard....
a Ati Radeon X1950Pro is about 220au here 512mb GDDR3 DX9
a 8600GTS is 350au here 512mb GDDR DX10
Im planning to use XP for at least up until Aug Next Year because i have been told vista is absolutely shocking i have been told when you insatl something you have to Say yes to these security checks etc and Older game some older game dont work so im planning to stick to xp until Aug-Dec 08 which is the better choice?