potential parts for new pc

[Carach]

what you reckon


was gonna salvage stuff from my current pc to make up for gaps. (what little remains that actually works ok still anyway)

[Freddie]

I would get a bigger hard drive if I were you, I have 320Gb for a year and that’s beginning to full and unless you have a practically big screen (24”=>) the 320Mb makes more sense then the 640mb version.

The 6000 is good value chip for the money, but if you plan to overclock you might be left disapointed but at stock speeds its a soild preformer.

[Dick]

Are you salvaging a PSU?

Also, why AMD over intel? Most people are going to recommend you go core 2 duo. If you are going to overclock you will probably need better RAM, if not you could drop the after market cooling for the CPU and save yourself some cash. That hard drive only has a cache of 2mb, what you really want is a minimum of 8mb, but it won't impact performance that much. And I agree with Freddie, drop the graphics card to the 320mb version unless you have a big screen.

[SonOfCrusader76]

I'll probably be getting a new screen soon, 19-20 inch widescreen. Will my current GPU be ok with that?

[Arakorn]

Depends on games, resolution, settings etc...

[SonOfCrusader76]

Depends on games, resolution, settings etc...

Resolution probably not higher than 1280 x 1024

[Carach]

Resolution probably not higher than 1280 x 1024

yea thats the reso i usually play in.

i should be ordering parts tonight so im gonna change the 2mb cache hdd thing to 8mb (http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(5604)1...Hard-Disk.aspx)

i know 160gb seems to be a bit small these days but i was thinking i could fit my current hdd in too? this one's like 144gb or something

[Dick]

Do you know what interface your old hard drive is? SATA or IDE? That one you link to appears to be an IDE connection, you want something like this, which is a SATA connection.

Are you salvaging a PSU?

[Carach]

ok so, next gen games coming out soon - future is mainly what i want this stuff for.

[Freddie]

ok so, next gen games coming out soon - future is mainly what i want this stuff for.

If you want to future proof yourself a bit more and if you budget can strech look at buying a Quad Core CPU such as the QE6600.

[Carach]

my budget is not limitless

[Shaun]

Well, you could always buy an E6600 ...

[Carach]

yea im salvaging PSU as its relatively new.

whats difference between IDE and SATA btw

[Admiral Nelson]

SATA is newer & better in many ways

[spartan_phalanx]

Much smaller cable and extremely simply to hook up.

SATA

[Carach]

ok so i change that to SATA

should be ordering today so if theres any more changes that should be made be quick to suggest

[Dick]

You got a final parts list that you're going to order?

[Carach]

basically as shown above except changing the hdd to

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/(22328)...TA-II-300.aspx

thats what my mate just showed me anyway.

[Dick]

You said you weren't playing resolutions higher than 1280x1024, so get the 320mb version of the graphics card.

[Carach]

You said you weren't playing resolutions higher than 1280x1024, so get the 320mb version of the graphics card.

future proofing.