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pc purchase - help needed
2. April 2007 - 22:40
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pc purchase - help needed
About power supply, don't spare on it. Maybe no-name would pull such set, but it won't last long, for sure something above 400W, because you will surely add something to this set, DVD recorder, another HDD, maybe GPU in SLI(less possible) and 400W could not be enough in the peak of power hunger of this set.
3. April 2007 - 6:18
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pc purchase - help needed
i dont think that 7900GS is good choice. GS is the worst from serie. Try to compare difference between 7600GT and 7900GS.
about power supply: 400W is enough if you have good psu. I have 300W psu and athlon xp 3200+, nForce2 ultra 400, GeForce 6800, 1x HDD, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, 12cm Thelmaltake fan, 1GB RAM DDR400@CL2, and in PCI 1x 10/100mbit ethernet card and Creative SB 4.1 + fan regulator and display with sensors for easy check of temperatures
And its running stable:-) I bought this psu via member of some troubleshooting forum for 7 euro
3. April 2007 - 6:25
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pc purchase - help needed
lol...i see a lot of tripple-word-value for Scrabble here...
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3. April 2007 - 9:45
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pc purchase - help needed
The 7900GS seems to have a better price:performance ratio than the above suggested ones so far, since it costs by far less than the other 79xx cards.
You can compare them all here:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
As for memory, you most likely won't notice the difference between CL4 and CL5, so the price difference is probably not worth it.
As a CPU cooler, the Coolermaster Hyper TX has received pretty good reviews and it costs about 20 - 25 euros. I'm using an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro, which does a good job, but it's way too loud at full speed.
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Thanks for the feedback. I just need to get a few more things settled. So far I've decided to get a E4300 processor and a Seagate 320 GB hard drive.
I believe I've narrowed down the list of motherboards, now choosing between Asus P5B, MSI P965 (either standard or Platinum) and Foxconn P96577AA-8EKRS2H (what's with the name?).
As for the memory, I think either OCZ/Patriot/Geil 2GB Dual DDR @ 800 Mhz, though I'm not sure about the performance difference between CL5 and CL4.
Graphics: the Evga PCI-E GeForce 7900GS 256MB DDR3 256bit (KO version?) looked tempting, but I couldn't find much about it, and I don't know how does it really compare with other cards.
Some of the trouble I have now is with the power supply/chassis. Tough choice, and the cheap chassis+psu combos look quite good for my wallet, but they'll probably be much worse than others bought from better companies seperately. Please suggest a model of some sort.
I've also been looking at cpu fans, as the E4300 seems to be really oc-promising, and I have trouble with finding a good money/value (rather cheap) option.
If you could perhaps steer me in the right direction or if you think I've missed an important rival to the models mentioned above please do speak up.
Anem's BeQuiet Sp 400 W seems quote a good choice, what do you others think?
On second though, I'd be looking for a cheaper gfx, which could be overclocked a bit, as the price seems to be a bit too big. I'll probably also get the CL5 version as it seems a lot cheaper, and I don't think the performance could be a lot worse.