Animal Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I've finally got round to getting a new PC built. I got our IT munchkin at work to spec up something decent for around the £800 mark. This is what he came up with as the 'minimum' spec he'd build. What do you reckon? It'll be used mainly for AutoCAD, recording music and playing RPGs/Star Wars games. Lian-Li PC-60 Plus Aluminium Midi-tower case Asus P5N32-E Plus SLi nForce Socket 775 PCI-Express DDR2 motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) processor Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX RAM Antec NeoHE 550W Modular ATX2.0 PSU 2xNoctua NF-S12 12000rpm Silent Case Fans 2xNoctua NF-R8 Silent Case Fans Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) BFG GeForce 8800GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) graphics card M-Audio Delta 1010 soundcard with breakout box Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB SATA-II 16MB Cache hard drive Pioneer DVR-212D 18x18 DVD+_RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter disk drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Perfect Althou, I couldnt comment abou the sound card as I dont know about those ones. Creative man myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Althou, I couldnt comment abou the sound card as I dont know about those ones. Creative man myself. M-Audio do some top notch audiophile stuff, pricey but among the best you can get. Edit: The 1010 has 10 inputs and 10 outputs, do you really need that many? For half the price you could get one with 4 in/out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 M-Audio do some top notch audiophile stuff, pricey but among the best you can get. Edit: The 1010 has 10 inputs and 10 outputs, do you really need that many? For half the price you could get one with 4 in/out. Yeah the M-Audio gear is for music production - capable of real time sampling with zero latency. Luckily I managed to find one on fleabay for 100 quid. I'll be using the motherboard's on-board soundcard for the day to day stuff and the M-Audio for recording the band Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Make sure you check the graphics card before install. I have the same one and hit temps of 114degC on the GPU due to BFG sticking a stupid sticker on the center of the fan, it came loose and jammed the fan, not good For some reason the memory doesnt seem to clock to well on the BFG OC cards, mine hasnt crashed since going back to stock speed 1800mhz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonshaw_uk Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 id change the processor - but if your on a tight budget then leave it in Quad Core for the win Q6600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted December 4, 2007 Author Share Posted December 4, 2007 id change the processor - but if your on a tight budget then leave it in Quad Core for the win Q6600 I did think about quad core, but it would have stretched the budget a bit further than I wanted and to be honest, AutoCAD only supports up to dual core, so the benefit wouldn't be as great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 Well, it's been built and it's in the car waiting to be taken home. The lad that's built it has installed Gears of War, Quake 4 & Colin McRae Dirt on it and apparently they all run without a glitch with everything turned up full. I can see a few late nights coming up this week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Get COD4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt H Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Lian-Li PC-60 Plus Aluminium Midi-tower case Asus P5N32-E Plus SLi nForce Socket 775 PCI-Express DDR2 motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) processor Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX RAM Antec NeoHE 550W Modular ATX2.0 PSU 2xNoctua NF-S12 12000rpm Silent Case Fans 2xNoctua NF-R8 Silent Case Fans Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) BFG GeForce 8800GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) graphics card M-Audio Delta 1010 soundcard with breakout box Western Digital Caviar SE16 750GB SATA-II 16MB Cache hard drive Pioneer DVR-212D 18x18 DVD+_RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter disk drive thats a long list of ummm, stuff. do you get lemmings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angarak Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Get COD4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyB Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 How much did all that set you back buddy, PM if you like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 That lot cost me just under £800 from Overclockers. Now I need to get me a pair of decent flat screen monitors... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Now I need to get me a pair of decent flat screen monitors... Same here, cant decide if I want dual 19" or single 24" widescreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animal Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 I find dual screens really useful as you can separate programs easier than on a single screen. Need to have a proper look around, but I've just seen a 20" widescreen for £149 in Comet that could be quite good. I don't think I want to spend more than £300 on a pair of monitors and they need to be 19" minimum, not too fussed about widescreen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt H Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I find dual screens really useful as you can separate programs easier than on a single screen. Need to have a proper look around, but I've just seen a 20" widescreen for £149 in Comet that could be quite good. I don't think I want to spend more than £300 on a pair of monitors and they need to be 19" minimum, not too fussed about widescreen. Do you get Lemmings tho?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 For dual screens I would prefer non widescreen monitors, pretty much everything after 19" is widescreen unless you spend silly money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 I'd like a new monitor too, 20"-24" range and preferably widescreen. I know the Dell Ultrasharp 24" is supposedly good but it's expensive and I think really it might be a bit big for my desk. What about 22", which ones are good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 My mate has this Samsung 24" on his setup and the picture really good http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-054-SA&groupid=703&catid=17&subcat=510 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 My mate has this Samsung 24" on his setup and the picture really good http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-054-SA&groupid=703&catid=17&subcat=510 Not a bad price that. I notice in the 22" range there's two samsung for around the same price, any idea what the difference is between them? Seemingly not much! http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-050-SA http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MO-062-SA (edit: first one has a mustang on it, second one has a BMW, on that basis I'd go for the mustang obviously) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 2nd one has the styling like the Samsung TV range, 1st one looks like a normal monitor. Specs are the same though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8800 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 the 226bw has a less input lag, 1.6ms average vs the 2232 28ms, but with sumsung's monitor u are playing a lottery as they use 3 different panels but u cant garrantee which u get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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