Last check please

Woden

Gonna pick this up this evening or tomorrow. Took me ages to look into the bits are it wrecks my head. Open to some last minute changes and would like to know is the psu overkill and would i be ok with the 500Watt version

cheers

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CA-024-EN Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-024-EN)
£89.95 £89.95
CP-152-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-152-AM)
£164.95 £164.95
MB-014-DF DFI LanParty UT NF4 Ultra-D (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-014-DF)
£79.95 £79.95
MY-007-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR ZX PC3200 (2x1GB) CAS2 Dual Channel Kit (F1-3200PHU2-2GBZX) (MY-007-GS)
£129.95 £129.95
GX-047-HT HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-047-HT)
£294.95 £294.95
HD-046-WD Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD)
£57.95 £57.95
CD-026-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer LabelFlash ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-026-NE)
£27.95 £27.95
HS-023-TR ThermalRight SI-120 (Socket 754/939/478) Heatsink (HS-023-TR)
£26.95 £26.95
CA-039-AN Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Silver) (CA-039-AN)
£74.95 £74.95
FG-004-YS YS-TECH FD1238 120mm Fan - 4 Pin (FG-004-YS)
£9.95 £9.95
AC-000-AC Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
£5.50 £5.50
Subtotal £963.00
VAT £168.53
Total £1,131.53

conzy

Looks good

A hitachi Deskstar 7K250 would be a better HDD, its the fastest 7200rpm HDD and only €105 on komplett

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=308745

The X2 3800 will struggle in games if you dont overclock, but by the looks of your components you are overclocking;)

Great system,

Woden

yeap gonna overclock will hope for 2.5 or 2.6ghz and put a divider on the ram as i read that timings are more important on amd systems?

was looking at an opty 170 but the current steppings out of overclockers are apparently only giving 2.5 to 2.6 as well and i was of the opinion that 150 euro more seems a bit much just for more cache

regards to the hdd the 16mb cache was swaying me but i'll look into that hitachi

thanks

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The Real B-man

with a sli mobo would you not get two Nvidia sli cards?

conzy

extra HDD cache is not a big advantage, as you can see here:

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/250_3.html

and here:

http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200601/250_3.html

The hitachi wins, in both gaming performance and access time, which is the best drive to suit your needs.

@The Real B-man

The Ultra-D is not SLI, the early models could be modded to run SLI as they had the SLI chipset and 2 PCI-Express *8 slots

The SLI-d and the SLI-dr are the SLI capable DFI boards.

Unless you have your heart set on a X1900XTX, a 7900gt has the same performance as a 7800gtx and costs a lot less than the X1900XTX

But if you want the very best, go ahead;)

Woden

will only every put one card in the mobo tbh so i just went for a good board. not sure if there is any benefit for putting a ati card in an ati chipset board and read a lot of good things about the dfi so looked at that.

afaik the only difference between the next model of m/b and the one i have is the sli so no issue there

found that storagereview review and it was exactly what i needed tbh got the hitachi in the basket now thank you

don't have my heart set on the x1900xtx but i here the image quality maybe better then the 7900GTX and its cheaper that i can see was originally going for a x1900xt but teh price drops from when i started looking at the x1900xt mean i can get a x1900xtx for the same price

any thoughts on the psu is 500watts ok?

conzy

I thought you were getting a 620watt Enermax liberty? a 500watt enermax liberty would do the job comfortably also.

Well if you are going ATI, get a X1900XT instead of the XTX, as it will overclock to the same speeds and save you a bit of money

Woden

had the 620 in the cart for sure but was just wondering would the 500 be sufficient cheers

Woden

ordered it!

took the hitachi drive and suck with the 620watt with the ah sure why note thought about it