New PC

aicaramba · Post by **aicaramba** » January 10th, 2007, 2:36 pm

New PC,

We are probably going to buy a new PC in a month or so. Ive been asking around for it quite a bit, this basicly is for a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) oppinion.
This is what we had in mind:

Intel duo core 2 E6600
Asus geforce 7950GT
corsair value select 2x512mb ram
Asus p5b motherboard
Hiper 580 watt
Maxtor 300gb harddisc (taken from old PC)

Now ive been told the 7950gt runs quite hot, so were gonna place a zalman GC fan on it.
Ive also been told that the ram is a bit of a bottleneck, but since we are reaching our budget I decided to keep it this way and get another gb ram next year or so.

Now I just want some oppinions or things you would change on it.

Oh, and will a harddisc taken out of a 6 year old PC fit on a newer motherboard? Is it something with IDE and SATA?

aicaramba · Post by **aicaramba** » January 10th, 2007, 3:52 pm

The PC isnt mainly for gaming. And a friend of my brother has AMD and he has lots of small troubly things with it that makes me prefer intel.

aicaramba · Post by **aicaramba** » January 10th, 2007, 4:54 pm

Ive got pentium 4 2,4 ghz at the moment, never had any troubles with it and I think the processor is one of the components that wont outdate very quickly. This one runs the games good enough, its mainly the graphics card and ram (I guess) that is holding me back atm.
But since we still got agp mother board and all we decided to go and buy an entire new pc.
Also, Ive been reading a lot on gamingforums that the core2 duo are much better then AMD for less money.

Koekie · Post by **Koekie** » January 10th, 2007, 5:14 pm

Also, Ive been reading a lot on gamingforums that the core2 duo are much better then AMD for less money.

It is! (:

All-Killer · Post by **All-Killer** » January 10th, 2007, 6:58 pm

Defently buy a duo intel. The duo is so much better as AMD. Also a great thing of the E6600 is that it is so extremely easy to overclock it. With the standard cooling you can overclock it easy +1 Ghz. Bit i should take 2 x 1 gb ram instead of 2x 512, because 1 gb is now almost standard in games so 2 gb is nice for the future (and now) and maby if you wait some more you can get an nice 8800GTX for a good price and you can run vista with no problems and you have a master pc

aicaramba · Post by **aicaramba** » January 10th, 2007, 7:37 pm

We kinda allready decided to stick with the 1 gb of memory due to the budget, but add an other gb in a year, when the price has reduced and its needed more. 8800gtx is just way too expensive, no way im spending that much on a graphics card.

Edit: What do u recommend 7950gt or 7900gto for same price?

Post by **Drofder2004** » January 11th, 2007, 4:49 am

I seriously would recommend saving that extra bit of cash for the second 1Gb of ram, as for the GFX cards, I am way too rusty when it comes to current market so I will skip that question.

Post by **Soviet** » January 11th, 2007, 5:23 am

id say do the 7950 from what i know. As for processors, unfortunately the other guys are right, AMD is falling behind intel. Ive got a 2.8 pentium 4ht myself and it serves all my gaming needs fine. I think all you got on there is good though. The only thing i would suggest is keep cooling in mind, that might cost you a bit of money as well.

aicaramba · Post by **aicaramba** » January 11th, 2007, 9:17 am

Ye, allready told I was gonna get a zalman graphics card cooler with it.

Luke · Post by **Luke** » January 11th, 2007, 1:45 pm

Good choice of PSU, I can say that coz I recently bought one and modular roxorz lol. If you're just going for 1gb of ram, go for a dual channel kit, and get some low latency stuff that come with heatsinks. Worth the bit extra than the value stuff imo, especially if you want to overclock, but I doubt it with that rig.

aicaramba · Post by **aicaramba** » January 11th, 2007, 2:20 pm

We are going for a dual kit 2x 512, and were not gonna overclock things, maybe the graphics card in case we buy a 7900gto instead of the 7950gt. We are gonna buy an extra gb or 2 in a year or so, the expenses wont all be at the same time and the ram modular should be a bit cheaper.

All-Killer · Post by **All-Killer** » January 11th, 2007, 3:23 pm

why not buy first a 1 gb and later place it another with it in dual channel. Thats smarter i think. And you really need to overclock that intel i mean those things are overclockable like hell. Extra performance = free

aicaramba · Post by **aicaramba** » January 11th, 2007, 10:56 pm

Our family is not at all computer knowledged and stuff. If u say overclocking, they think: breaking the PC in two weeks.. Overclocking is not getting done here!

Post by **Soviet** » January 12th, 2007, 1:30 am

then dont call it ocing, just use the software that comes with the video card for ocing and say you are "optimizing the performance"

Post by **Drofder2004** » January 12th, 2007, 3:00 am

Soviet wrote:then dont call it ocing, just use the software that comes with the video card for ocing and say you are "optimizing the performance"

Or say nothing and do it when they are not looking, as if they will notice

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