Will This Computer Work?

[serendepity]

Well, After getting bored of the crap graphics, crap RAM and CPU and very ticked off at the price of awful computers "designed for gaming", so I have decided to build my own computer, that will (hopefully) be better than any shop bought one and will be like a million times cheaper than if I bought it from a specialist supplier. So here are the Specs, by the way, all components are from aria.co.uk unless specified. Also please comment on whether it will work and perhaps anything I may need and anything I don't need.

Here they are:
Motherboard Cost- £130.37
Asus P5E X38 Chipset (Skt 775) 1600FSB DDR2 PCI-E Crossfire

Memory Cost- £58.69
Corsair 4GB PC2-6400 C5 XMS2 (2x2GB)

Power Supply Cost- £91.59
Corsair 650W TX Series PSU

CPU Cost- £228.42
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz (Retail 775)

Hard Drive Cost- £55.17
500Gb Western Digital SATA2 - 16MB - 7200RPM

Graphics Cost- £193.70
nVidia GeForce 9800GTX 512MB PCI-E 2.0

DVD Drive Cost- £17.57
Samsung SH-S202N/BEBN 20x IDE DVD±R Black

Sound Card Cost- £55.05
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer OEM

Operating System Cost- £111.57
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit OEM

Expansion/USB Cost- £6.99
USB2.0+FIREWIRE PCI Controller Card

Cooling Cost- £233.83
Swiftech H20 220 APEX Ultra Plus CPU Liquid Cooling Kit (thecoolingkit.com)

Case Cost- £59.00 (X-Case.co.uk)
X-Case Viper Black Silver

Total: £1241.89

[piemastermike]

topic should actually read: hey look at my massive epeen

[Tiggs]

Yes that will all work, although there are a couple changes I would make. First off, don't go for the 9800GTX, I'd recommend either an ATI 4850 (cheaper, generally same or slightly better performance than the GTX) or the 4870 (more expensive, quite a bit better performance)

Secondly, you can get the water cooling (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=WC-021-SW&groupid=701&catid=193&subcat=1038&name=Swiftech%20H2O-220%20Apex%20Ultra+%20Watercooling%20Kit%20(Socket %20462/478/LGA775/754/939/940)) and the power supply (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-008-CS) much cheaper from OcUK. Might be worth doing a bit more shopping around to see where else you can save (although often its best to try and get everything from a single store to save on shipping)

[pieeater]

If you want to use 4GB of RAM you will have to go for a 64-bit OS, in vista 32-Bit you will only get about 3.25GB max.

[Erskien_Parkour]

On topic is getting the 64bit worth it these days?

I know there were a lot of issues before but how about now?

[serendepity]

topic should actually read: hey look at my massive epeen

Wtf is an epeen?

Yes that will all work, although there are a couple changes I would make. First off, don't go for the 9800GTX, I'd recommend either an ATI 4850 (cheaper, generally same or slightly better performance than the GTX) or the 4870 (more expensive, quite a bit better performance)

Secondly, you can get the water cooling and the power supply much cheaper from OcUK. Might be worth doing a bit more shopping around to see where else you can save (although often its best to try and get everything from a single store to save on shipping)

Cheers Man, I Found the cooling for almost £100 cheaper, thus far I have managed to shave off about 300, so including the cheaper graphics card I may have a product under £1000

[Timmeh]

epeen = Internet dick waving.

On a serious note, I suggest you shop around, take into account shipping from multiple places too, but last time I built a PC I had a poke around as many different online retailers as possible and saved myself a fair chunk of cash as a result.

[cliffhanger]

Yes that will all work, although there are a couple changes I would make. First off, don't go for the 9800GTX, I'd recommend either an ATI 4850 (cheaper, generally same or slightly better performance than the GTX) or the 4870 (more expensive, quite a bit better performance)



Personally I wouldn't recommend an ATI card at the moment. The 8800GTS 512mb can be bought for about £170 or less and there are no games that it won't run at the moment.

[The Grim Reaper]

Personally I wouldn't recommend an ATI card at the moment. The 8800GTS 512mb can be bought for about £170 or less and there are no games that it won't run at the moment.

4850 > 8800GTS by far. Roughly 4850 = 9800GTX. And the drivers on the 4850 are yet to mature, so only more performance can result.

Remember you can Crossfire another card further down the track for about 80% more performance depending on the game.