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PC building round 2
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04-02-2004 3:15pm#1
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well if it was me i'd:
1. get a cd burner and dvd combo or, better still, a dvd burner.
2. get a SATA drive. neater and in theory faster. also I'd get a seagate or a samsung. these are the quietest around.
3. throw in a few more quid and get a 160GB drive.
other than that its fine. you should get some nice benchmarks with that 9800pro.
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yup that all looks great. the chieftecs are great cases. the 360w should be fine. what's important to remember is the quality of the PSU is more important than the output. a chieftec 360w is much better than a qtec 420w. usually.
and i was gonna say you consider dropping the soundcard if you weren't planning on doing heavy.....sound things. the onboards nowadays are normally quite good. heard good things about that mobo too.
so now you've one less drive and soundcard. that should save you a few watts of power. it shouldn't matter though, you're well covered. should be a good overclocker.
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Stay away from the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB S-ATA drive. I had that and it's very very slow. My ide drive was out performing it. I've a maxtor one now and the benifits of sata are clearly visable with it. The samsung one is good aswell I hear.
In regards the aopen stuff brian, the case looks pretty ok. Doesnt look like it's a screwless design. Something which is very very handy. As for the psu, I aint too familar with them. I'd prob recommend going for an antec one since I've got one. It's a great psu and got blue light
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Thanks lads. The reason I was thinking of the AOpen is simply that I like the look of it. Big, square, black and with no fancy or "trendy" features - that's how I want the case to look Anyhow, I am a total newbie to this and am just trying to pick up some tips for building a system. I won't be rushing into anything just yet
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Why not get it in two orders? Im not sure about getting heavy things like a monitor and case from germany........ postage would be killer. Komplett will do postage for €10 (its not the best but if you can wait a week)...... best of both worlds i think.
If your worried about the PSU then you can always pop onto hitide.ie and pick one up.......it'l be quiet and good quality (and price isint bad at all) .
Shipping should be around €20 ish if you take out the heavy items (monitor & case). The only thing is if you pay by credit card paypal charge an aditional fee which could be about €20 on top of that :rolleyes: ........ if you pay through their bank account then you dont pay this (extra €20-30 to spend).
There is no PSU with that case, you have to put your own in. (usual list of best PSU's ..... Antec, Be-quiet, Fortron, enermax, thermaltake, PCP&C, Zalman.....)
Quietest ones are the Zalman, Be-quiet, Fortron (2 fans if you dont mod, 1x120mm if you mod it to 5v).......
If your thinkin of overclocking your 9800pro then why not get an Artic cooler aswell? There feckin huge, my order just came and i was very supprised!!2: The Zalman 7000 looks like its just a fan to I have to get a copper sink to attack to it?
The zalman is a heatsink & fan all in one, nothing to worry about there...... prob just a bad picture.
Remember to pick up an SATA cable for your HDrive & power addapter if need be (only a couple of euro's) .......... i forgot and have to wait another week to get them
Other than that it looks like a very sweet system........0 -
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The mobo is an SATA only i think so it should come with one, I'll check.
The monitor I wanted to get from Komplett disappeared today, it was their yesterday, this one is the closest. and even if it costs an extra €30 just to ship it it saves me money
Looking into the artic cooler now.0 -
Revised order sent to Jes today, glad I waited and saved €70 on the 9800pro.
Got a second case + 5 fans + VGA artic cooler for meh while i was at it, still waiting on an email about shipping weights for all that stuff but it could be around €100. Even taking that into account the whole is still far cheaper than Komplett 0 -
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