[H]Computer parts and Work out EQ.

He has a motherboard in there by XFX wow I am totally clueless about Nvidia chipsets

I would only suggest 1066MHz ram instead of 800, probably not much of a difference in price

oh wow, i didnt even know xfx made motherboards :o crazy, gl midian

Yeah 32 bit XP/Vista will only let you use a bit over 3GB of your 4GB of ram because it needs the rest to address video and other memory, but you should probably get vista 64 bit anyway if you want it to last

On May 01 2008 11:31 Breeze wrote: He has a motherboard in there by XFX wow I am totally clueless about Nvidia chipsets I would only suggest 1066MHz ram instead of 800, probably not much of a difference in price

I looked on his site and didn't find any kit of 2x2gb 1066mhz DDR2. Not much of a difference anyway.

I forgot to add Windows Vista 64-bit to the build. And possibly change the samsung spinpoint for a seagate 1tb.

On May 01 2008 11:33 Breeze wrote: Yeah 32 bit XP/Vista will only let you use a bit over 3GB of your 4GB of ram because it needs the rest to address video and other memory, but you should probably get vista 64 bit anyway if you want it to last

good post.

dont know if the nvidia chipset based motherboards have gotten better lately, but I remember reading a lot of people having problems with them. I'd go with the p35 as suggested eariler

On May 01 2008 11:22 Loco wrote:

Get a Q9450 instead of a Q9650, or more realistically just grab a Q6600/E8400. The price/performance curve is incredibly terrible once you get past the Q6600, even if you don't care much for money.

That was my plan at first too, but they aren't on the site. And Midian is way too baller for an older quad or a dual core processor. One thing you are also forgetting is that Midian is not going to overclock, so his Q6600 wouldn't be very good.

He should go all out and get a QX9770 then, holla.

I was gonna suggest elliptical machine as well for the cardio, treadmill sucks
A bench and barbell + the internet and you can do pretty much everything

This is the desktop parts list I have that I'm going to be changing around etc until I get it in 2-3 months time, keep in mind I'm not playing any hardcore games and really only poker and some dota until sc2 comes out at which point i'll just get a new gfx card.....but the point is it's aimed at trying to build a silent pc that can cope with my dust problems..

CASE Antec P182 195
PSU Corsair HX620 165
CPU Core 2 Duo E8400 264
MOBO Gigabyte P35-DS4 185
RAM 4GB A-DATA DDR2 800 95
GFX 512M Generic X2600Pro 72
HDD WD 640GB SATAII 125
DVD ASUS Lightscribe 20x SATA 35
KB Logitech G15 89
MOUSE Razer Deathadder + Exactmat 112
LCD 22" Samsung 2253BW x2 596

Acousti Pack Deluxe v2 99
Nexus 120mm Real Silent Fans x6 103
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme 79
120mm Filters x3 30


edit: not trying to derail, just posting to give midian some ideas..

On May 01 2008 15:31 bigbb33 wrote: He should go all out and get a QX9770 then, holla.

+£300 for 0.2ghz? no thanks

isnt ur current pc pretty good? you may as well wait until a new batch of hardware comes out and then buy that if you are looking to future proof urself.

if ur pc runs everything currently then no point upgrading now, since even if you buy the best, its not gunna be the best in 6 months time ¬_¬

my pc is not bad, but i want better ^_^ hasn't a new batch of hardware just come out anyway?

£600 for the CPU seems so overkill lol

I like kantoiki's list. I have the Antec P182, it's a very nice case. I agree with the choice of Corsair power supply. Quad core would probably me more in line with your choice Midian (htough

For the harddrive, I suggest you get a small Western Digital Raptor 74 Gb 10000 RPM (they don't seem to have it on ebuyer) for the OS and the hands databases, and a big fat one for storage (1Tb seagate or samsung). The harddrive is a big bottleneck, you'll see a big performance improvement by taking a fast one for applications and critical data (if you want to go all out, make a RAID array of two of these, for about twice the performance ^^).

E8400 > Q6600 for everything other than audio/video encoding

just noticed someone else rec'd the p35-ds4 and i'll 2nd that, its a very good mobo for overclocking

On May 02 2008 05:57 Catul wrote: £600 for the CPU seems so overkill lol I like kantoiki's list. I have the Antec P182, it's a very nice case. I agree with the choice of Corsair power supply. Quad core would probably me more in line with your choice Midian (htough For the harddrive, I suggest you get a small Western Digital Raptor 74 Gb 10000 RPM (they don't seem to have it on ebuyer) for the OS and the hands databases, and a big fat one for storage (1Tb seagate or samsung). The harddrive is a big bottleneck, you'll see a big performance improvement by taking a fast one for applications and critical data (if you want to go all out, make a RAID array of two of these, for about twice the performance ^^).

I agree with corsair power supply, I personally love them. But for the beast that I was building him i'm not sure if a 620 watts would be ok. There's the new 750w in there though that would probably be perfect.

I also added the raptor 150gb at first but it made him over budget(which he told me later he didn't mind). The thing is, the new 1tb hard drives with 32mb cache are making the raptors less worth it now.

On May 02 2008 08:55 SKoT wrote: E8400 > Q6600 for everything other than audio/video encoding just noticed someone else rec'd the p35-ds4 and i'll 2nd that, its a very good mobo for overclocking

?? he's not overclocking and wants a very expensive, top of the line PC.

Talking about hard drives, I would get the new 300GB VelociRaptor, interestingly they made it 2.5 inch and it's faster/quieter than the old Raptors.

I'm not sure if it's selling yet, too lazy to read this again:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914.html