Help with buying a tailor made desktop.

Leman_Russ

Four of a kind wrote: »

Got it sorted. Thanks Leman, that worked!

Glad to oblige

Four of a kind

I've a problem selecting a suitable wireless card for my build. I've already ordered Windows 7 64-bit, but my mate who's going to be putting my rig together said he can't find a wireless card thats compatable with 64 bit??!!

I want something thats stable esp when gaming online.

Can any of you guys link me to a suitable card? I have the silver netopia broadband unit as my broadband .

DECEiFER

Four of a kind wrote: »

I've a problem selecting a suitable wireless card for my build. I've already ordered Windows 7 64-bit, but my mate who's going to be putting my rig together said he can't find a wireless card thats compatable with 64 bit??!!

I want something thats stable esp when gaming online.

Can any of you guys link me to a suitable card? I have the silver netopia broadband unit as my broadband .

There's plenty out there.

My friend uses an el cheapo USB adapter he got from Ebuyer and it works fine on his Windows 7 x64 OS. Hell, the drivers are even installed by Windows Update (again, el cheapo). Another friend's new laptop has 7 x64 on it and the built-in device works without the need for a driver installation.


Chance this (not the same as my friend's no-name brand, but should work nevertheless):
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/158927

leninbenjamin

Four of a kind wrote: »

I've a problem selecting a suitable wireless card for my build. I've already ordered Windows 7 64-bit, but my mate who's going to be putting my rig together said he can't find a wireless card thats compatable with 64 bit??!!

I want something thats stable esp when gaming online.

Can any of you guys link me to a suitable card? I have the silver netopia broadband unit as my broadband .

well he didn't look very hard

this one will work. round €30 delivered.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-014-EX&tool=3

btw, don't use a USB dongle if you plan on doing online gaming.

Leman_Russ

Four of a kind wrote: »

I've a problem selecting a suitable wireless card for my build. I've already ordered Windows 7 64-bit, but my mate who's going to be putting my rig together said he can't find a wireless card thats compatable with 64 bit??!!

I want something thats stable esp when gaming online.

Can any of you guys link me to a suitable card? I have the silver netopia broadband unit as my broadband .

99% of cards will be automagically detected by Windows 7.

I am using W7 64 bit too, with a crappy belkin card that doesn't even have 64bit drivers to download, and it automatically got generic chipset drivers for me
In short, don't sweat it too much

Four of a kind

thank you guys.

Four of a kind

Here's the final set-up that I ordered and should have delivered next week. Used ebuyer, overclockers and Komplett.

The total sum inc deliver for all was €1200, which I know is probably a few hundred over priced but considering my budget was €1,500 and its my first time to spec out a custom build I guess I can only learn

Once again thanks to every one that contributed to this thread with there expert advice and tips. Really could not have done it any other way.

I'll pop up a few pics when I get it sorted.

Thanks.


CPU - Intel Core i5 750 2.66GHz Socket LGA1156 8MB L3 Cache

Mobo -ASUS P7P55D PRO iP55 Socket LGA 1156 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard

SPU - Corsair 650W HX modular

RAM - Kingston 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz i5 Memory Kit CL9 1.5V

Hard drive - Samsung spinpoint F3 1TB HD SATA 2 7200rpm 32mb CACHE - OEM

Optical Drive - LG GH22N50 22 x DVD RW DL +SAM SATA BLACK retail kit

Case - Coolermaster HAP 922

Graphics Card - Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 1GB GDDR5

CPU Cooler - NH-U12P SE2 Dual Fan Quiet CPU Cooler, Intel and AMD

Fans -Kaze Jyuni 1200RPM Slip Stream 120mm Fan (three of these)

Windows 7 - 64-bit Home Premium

Wireless card - Edimax EW-7727In nMax 300Mbps Wireless Desktop PCI Network Adapter

MrMagic1

Four of a kind wrote: »

Wireless card - Edimax EW-7727In nMax 300Mbps Wireless Desktop PCI Network Adapter

Pointless buying an "N" adapter if your wifi router is the Netopia "G"

Four of a kind

MrMagic1 wrote: »

Pointless buying an "N" adapter if your wifi router is the Netopia "G"

It's backward compatable to G.

Leman_Russ

MrMagic1 wrote: »

Pointless buying an "N" adapter if your wifi router is the Netopia "G"

It lets him have an upgrade path for a N Router.

Do you tell the person buying a 5850 that unless they have 3 Monitors it is pointless?

DECEiFER

That's a lovely machine, FOAK.

The RAM will let you down, not in gaming, but if you're heavily into HD video production with Sony Vegas/Aivid/Adobe Premiere/Adobe After Effects, and real-time audio effects processing in Adobe Audition/Protools/Reason, etc., but you can always upgrade at a later date if you're that way inclined. Gaming wise, 4GB is more than plenty these days.


Best of luck with the build and the OS installation. Hopefully it will go smoothly to plan for you.

Leman_Russ

Oh Shush you! The ram is perfectly fine. Doubling the cost of the ram will give him an increase in synthetic benchmarks but for real life applications its fine :P

leninbenjamin

MrMagic1 wrote: »

Pointless buying an "N" adapter if your wifi router is the Netopia "G"

but sure they are backwards compatible anyway (unless you're using A, in which case it's time for an upgrade anyway). It's a wee bit of speculative future proofing for little additional cost.

Btw Four of a Kind, i forgot to say, the drivers and software that comes with the card aren't great (it's a cheapo after all). It's a bog standard Ralink chip though, as found in the likes of the MSI wind and that, so if you find yourself having bother with it better to go direct to the Ralink website and download the drivers for the 2860 (found here). Seems to solve most issues with it.

Four of a kind

Ramdisk - Solid State Drive (SSD). Are these both the same? A poster earlier in this tread suggested that I get a SSD and run win 7 and a few select items off it.

Could someone give me a run down of what exactly a ramdisk/SSD would enable me to do?

Leman_Russ

Four of a kind wrote: »

Ramdisk - Solid State Drive (SSD). Are these both the same? A poster earlier in this tread suggested that I get a SSD and run win 7 and a few select items off it.

Could someone give me a run down of what exactly a ramdisk/SSD would enable me to do?

Ramdisks are more for servers than anything else.

A SSD is essentially a Hugh Flash memory Stick that is 9001 times faster than a HDD as there are no moving parts. The only problem is that they are Very Expensive (Averages to $3/GB compared to something like $0.35/GB for HDDs)