New pc for teh woman.

Anti

Roish. So herself has started playing fps games. And im fed up of sharing my pc with her. So ill be building her a new pc from bits and piecies i have lying around.


First of is a lapped E6600 combined with a abit in9-fp fatal1ty board. I have a few spare ide hdds that can be used. I will most likely be using Tinyxp or Evilx, as they are free I will be using a Antec 900 from kami. So all i need now is a semi decent gfx card that will play Source engine games, and quake4, and maybe a bit of wow if i can get her to play it. Also i need some ram. Will crappy 5300 be okay for her? Bear in mind it wont be overclocked. I also need a budget cooler.

Basicially you can see i've not built a pc on the cheap for a while. So i need some advice on ram, graphics card. cpu cooler. The pc will most likely be hooked up to a 32" Hd LD. Onboard sound will do her grand. And i have a spare 580w hiper psu.

Am i missing anything else ?

garthv

Yeah, a case :

dazftw

He already has an antec case there..

Mouse and keyboard? for the cooler you could probably try adverts or if you like ill give you a stock E6600 one? you just pay for postage..

Anti

dazftw wrote: »

He already has an antec case there..

Mouse and keyboard? for the cooler you could probably try adverts or if you like ill give you a stock E6600 one? you just pay for postage..

Sounds like a deal to me, cheers mate

dazftw

ill go down and see how much postage will cost and ill send it straight away? Could you pay by bank transfer whatever it is? Took out some money and the credit card and its hard to pay off when you have no job :P so having it in pay pal is pointless..

send us a pm anyways now.

Jules

The my little pony case is so cute \0/

Anti

Sure ill send by bank transfer

TerrorFirmer

I would just get the cheapest of the cheap ram. 'Crappy' 5300? For any women even 4200 is plenty

Actually 5300 seems to be cheaper if you get these - less then 50 Quid for two gigs...and they even come with heatspreaders for a stylish look!

Sapphire X1650Pro for 66 euro that will play Source fine at high settings and you're laughing. You can even get the HIS one for 53 euro but it's only ddr2 but doubt the performance difference would be huge given the weak core anyway. edit: Just noticed you said a 32" TV. What's the res on that, would ya be looking to play at a res close enough to native or just scale up a low res? This would be pretty sweet up to 1680x1050 or even 1900x1200 for Source. Or this one for slightly better performance for a few pints extra. god bless those cheap last gen dx9 cards.

there's something fun about building cheap PC's....it's my only luxury given I can never afford high end parts

I reckon your girlfriend is lucky to be getting such quality kit. A fatality board and a lapped 6600? Please! Mine has to make do with an ancient 2800+ and 9600XT. If she dares complain she gets a swift slap across the face.

edit: can you get pink cathode?

Anti

Slap across the face. And rightly so....

Thanks for the link for the ram, twill do nicely. As for the gfx im still not sure. I might gawk on adverts for a while.

And as for the case, im going to fully mod it to either white or pink.

dazftw

white with pink fans? modding an antec 900 should be fun

Anti

Not a bad idea at all. Pink fans are fairly easy to come across. Just buy ones marked as red. Spraying the case should be fun though.

Stephen

I picked up 2 gigs of OCZ PC5400 ram with the spanky gold heatspreaders from memoryc.com (celbridge) this week for €48 + vat

Came to about €60 including post and vat. Was delivered very quickly too.

Anti

Very good. I will have a look at them too. Cheers Stephen.

Jules

Tbh, I would like to build it myself. Kinda start small and go from there. Would it like to be purple, but kinda sparkly, all over with blue lighting.

Anti

jules80 wrote: »

Tbh, I would like to build it myself. Kinda start small and go from there. Would it like to be purple, but kinda sparkly, all over with blue lighting.

GTFO !

Jules

Anti wrote: »

GTFO !

Serious, been watching you tinkering with your pcs and it seems interesting. And any advice would be very much apperciated.

nibble

Anti wrote: »

GTFO !

Haha, the woman invading your turf man?

Anti

Big time.

Woman... TITS ot GTFO !