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Hey,
I've saved up some money and now here's what I will be spending it on:
MSI K8N SLI Platinum NFORCE4 SKT939 - £82
AMD (Venice) Athlon 64Bit 3000+ - ...
- 10-20-2005 #1Linux Newbie
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What do you think of this computer setup?
Hey,
I've saved up some money and now here's what I will be spending it on:
MSI K8N SLI Platinum NFORCE4 SKT939 - £82
AMD (Venice) Athlon 64Bit 3000+ - £95
Geil Value 1Gb PC3200 Dual Chan DDR Kit (2x512MB) - £65
Mitsumi Floppy Drive - £3
Western Digital WD1600JD 160GB 7200RPM SATA/150 8MB Cache - OEM - £55
LG GSA-4167B 16X DVD±RW/RAM - £35
Antec Psu/550w Eps12v Pfc F True Ii - £97
Gigabyte GV-NX66256DP 6600 256MB Silent pipe PCI-E - £76
In total this comes to £523 (including P&P) which is just under my budget of £537. With the £14 spare I will either buy faster RAM or a large HDD.
What do you guys think of this and would you recommend something other than what I have?
Thanks
Tom
PS. I have already ordered the case, Antec Super Lanboy.
- 10-20-2005 #2Linux Enthusiast
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How did you buy a floppy drive for 3 pounds?
- 10-20-2005 #3Linux Engineer
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Go with the faster ram. The specs look great from where I'm sitting
Stumbling around the 'net:
www.cloudyuseful.com
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Post the latency of that ram you chose .. (Value doesn´t necessarily mean it´s worse)
Some people experienced problems with de fan on the northbridge (a common problem actually) so you might want to look into that ...
What are you planning to do with this ... probably not gaming ...
I have better alternatives for the HD, proc. (depends whether or not you´d like to play games a lot) and mobo .. it´s a nice built though.
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Nice performance-on-a-budget system there
looks like it would handle games quite well. That 6600 packs some power.
Originally Posted by Infinity
- 10-20-2005 #6Linux Newbie
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I've not actually bought it yet, but I figure they can be handy sometimes on computers so I may aswell get one. Originally Posted by chopin1810
This will unfortunately bump the price upGo with the faster ram. The specs look great from where I'm sitting Smile
# CAS 2.5 8-4-4ost the latency of that ram you chose .. (Value doesn´t necessarily mean it´s worse)
Some people experienced problems with de fan on the northbridge (a common problem actually) so you might want to look into that ...
What are you planning to do with this ... probably not gaming ...
I have better alternatives for the HD, proc. (depends whether or not you´d like to play games a lot) and mobo .. it´s a nice built though.
# 2.55V-2.95V
Hmm, initial problems or after a certain time?
I'm not planning on gaming, just watching movies, TV series, programming and browsing.
Nice performance-on-a-budget system there
, I'm buying the 6600GT for movies basically, or would I be fine with the cheapest PCI-E card I can find:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=97821
?
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Originally Posted by SpaceSquad Nice performance-on-a-budget system there
looks like it would handle games quite well. That 6600 packs some power. Originally Posted by Infinity 
sorry I thought it said 6200 ... 
people make mistakes ...
... mmm about the latency´s well .. mmm the built in memory controller (AMD) will help out a lot but maybe you should reconsider that choice ...
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that would be more than sufficient for what you're doing. Originally Posted by TomX , I'm buying the 6600GT for movies basically, or would I be fine with the cheapest PCI-E card I can find:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=97821
?
- 10-21-2005 #9Linux Engineer
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you can get a samsung spinpoint 250GB for £80 from www.komplett.co.uk, i'm in the process of strongarming my dad into getting me one
Here's why Linux is easier than Windows:
Package Managers! Apt-Get and Portage (among others) allow users to install programs MUCH easier than Windows can.
Hardware Drivers. In SuSE, ALL the hardware is detected and installed automatically! How is this harder than Windows' constant disc changing and rebooting?
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Re: What do you think of this computer setup?
LOL@...
You must be buying this for a joke, yes? I get a funny feeling you're wasting £3, that money would be much better spent on a McDonalds burger, or a cup of pretentious Starbucks coffee. Originally Posted by TomX
Of all the computers I've built or bought over the last 2 years, none has had a floppy disk in it. If you're using SATA, then you dont want a floppy disk ribbon cable inside the case disrupting the air flow across your cpu.
Other than that, I think the machine looks fine - I take it you've checked the support of that video card against the Linux nVidia drivers support? It'd be really embarassing for you if you had to run it at 640x480 in vga mode!Linux user #126863 - see http://linuxcounter.net/
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