Knights Reborn

32 bit.

32 bit is more than fine, alot of people say 64 bit is fine BUT

home basic is a waste of time...

Premium at minimum.

Basic has no media center or aero.

I'll go premium 32 then, thanks guys

Okay, gonna bump this topic again haha.
Still dont have the money but Im hoping I'll get it within a week or two (fingers crossed!)
I just wanna have a final double check with you guys that what Im getting is all good and compatible etc etc, so, new list below plus link to the PSU Andy is generously letting me have, still waiting for him to locate me a screen as well but its unimportant at this stage so no worries just yet



http://www.coolermaster.com/products/pr ... tail&id=52

Thanks again guys

saunby wrote:Okay, gonna bump this topic again haha.
Still dont have the money but Im hoping I'll get it within a week or two (fingers crossed!)
I just wanna have a final double check with you guys that what Im getting is all good and compatible etc etc, so, new list below plus link to the PSU Andy is generously letting me have, still waiting for him to locate me a screen as well but its unimportant at this stage so no worries just yet



http://www.coolermaster.com/products/pr ... tail&id=52

Thanks again guys

I think its good to see a strong friendship between you and Andy

Basically your blatantly covering up him stealing a PSU and Monitor from PC World for you

Yes all looks okay to me, the psu is fine

remember to change your RAm voltages or whatever was said, as the machine will not work well (might not POST or might be unstable)

Thanks Mel

Haha nah hes only stealing the monitor for me
He previously bought the PSU for himself and it didnt fit or something lol

I will look into that voltage thingy

Your motherboard is almost the same as mine, ill find out where i changed the settings and what to if you have issue

Chantelle wrote:Your motherboard is almost the same as mine, ill find out where i changed the settings and what to if you have issue

Thanks Chan, much appreciated!! (:

Good news!

Daddy gave me £350 yesterday O_O
Mums giving me the rest tomorrow so I should be able to get my bits next week whoop whoop :D

Chan have you looked into that issue yet? If not no worries Im in no rush and also I still dont have a screen lmao.

She gonna be in Leeds till the weekend now.

If she avoids being shot or mugged she will be around.

Yet another lovely bump on this topic

As an update, daddies money went in fine, nothing but problems with my mums cheque though, first of all I got to the bank too late so I went the following day and paid it in, i figured it should clear by wednesday or thursday last week and today it still had not cleared! So I called the bank who told me it had been cleared into my savings account (why that happened I do not know lol..) anyways I asked her to transfer it over and then went to buy my bits from ebuyer, only to find that the lovely motherboard and graphics card I wanted have gone out of stock! So Ive found a couple of alternatives:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141599

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143193

The graphics card is actually the same one but a different make (or so Andy tells me) so in the end all good, ordering my stuff right after Ive posted this.

Chan if you get time to let me know about the voltages in the bios that'd be absolutely fantastic!

Few things

Firstly Chantelle, Richard and two friends are away on holiday to Caister on sea. Although Richard came back last night as he couldnt get as much time off work. But anyway She wont be around for a good few days.

1) Your motherboard is different so the instructions for changing RAM voltages will be different so your gonna have to look in your manual when you get it. You could ask Jenna when you get the motherboard what the actual model number is she might be able to locate the manual online and try and help from there. But she aint back till later on this week.

2) Your option to do SLI by adding another card is now gone on this otherboard. Unfortunateley you have gone a little down grade on the board

3) While the model is teh same 9600 Gt , the one quoted was a special high clocked version so again you have got a slower model unfortunateley.

Anyway not ground breaking differences but you have removed the SLI option for later.

Melissa wrote:Few things

Firstly Chantelle, Richard and two friends are away on holiday to Caister on sea. Although Richard came back last night as he couldnt get as much time off work. But anyway She wont be around for a good few days.

1) Your motherboard is different so the instructions for changing RAM voltages will be different so your gonna have to look in your manual when you get it. You could ask Jenna when you get the motherboard what the actual model number is she might be able to locate the manual online and try and help from there. But she aint back till later on this week.

2) Your option to do SLI by adding another card is now gone on this otherboard. Unfortunateley you have gone a little down grade on the board

3) While the model is teh same 9600 Gt , the one quoted was a special high clocked version so again you have got a slower model unfortunateley.

Anyway not ground breaking differences but you have removed the SLI option for later.

Yeah I highlighted the second and third points you made to Saunby at the time. Although to be honest I think he agreed when I said he has no real need for an SLI capable motherboard.

Pho~

fair enough, his performance differences on those boards are not going to be hugly slower just thought id point it out

Unfortunatley I cannot say if and when chantelle would be around to post any help on the volts.. I will see her tomorrow anyway I could mention it and she could pop on,

Let me know how the build goes

Well we've put it all together (literally less than 4 hours ago from posting this) and all is working fine- well so far anyway.

I must admit it was pretty funny when we'd put it all together, we closed up the case and plugged it all in.. Sat back and pressed the power button and f-all happened haha. Took us about a min to realise what the issue was, we stupidly didn't put the cable to the power button in the right place (although to be honest the motherboard is terribly labeled). But yeah, after that hiccup we powered it on and all went well.

I won't say anymore then that, I'll leave the rest for Saunby to post as it is HIS build.

Andy~

... why teh hell would anyone need a quad core for? Just curious.... but then again.. why do i kneed a tri core ... *looks off into space and walks away*.......

Jato wrote:... why teh hell would anyone need a quad core for? Just curious.... but then again.. why do i kneed a tri core ... *looks off into space and walks away*.......

Lol, your post is completely off topic. Saunby has neither a quad or a tri core processor- he has a dual core.

But in answer to your question, dual core, tri, quad core processors are much better at running applications then a single core- because the processes the computer is running are more evenly distributed between the processor cores, so basically, theres less stress on one single processor and therefore the PC runs faster.

Quad cores, are really only needed if your going to be heavily multi-tasking. Even though some dual core processors can be overclocked to give better speeds then the average quad core (this is the route most gamers tend to go down also, due to the fact that not many current games on the market support the use of four processors).

Pho~

That happens to me all the time when I build my own rig. especially when you got lots of things like plugs going into graphics cards and all sorts..

Plug it in press the button .. nothing or my favoirite is... plug it in.. turn it on fans spin... nothing..

Well I am glad its working first off, ill admit my realisation the RAM needed more Volts only came after a week as the system worked okay but kept blue screening and I looked into it. Since then it has been fine. But since its working its fine.

As for Quad core to be honest id put that more in a server as for home rig id have a fast dual core over a cheaper quad core.. but quad core could be future proof, that said by the time developers use it I am sure much superior chips will be around.. The hardware market is unfortunateley happy to get far too carried away infront of what developers can currently do. They are talking about 16 cores by 2009.

Finally checked in on the forums (not on my new build might I add)

Yeah we had a few bumps on the road to success but we're there now and is all good.

Dont have much else to say lol, its fast and I like it.

Gonna get a proper screen soon, probably a novatech since they are cheap and I am told they are good value for money

Will upgrade stuff as and when as well such as a card reader and fan control etc.

Dont seem to have any problems with the volts yet will let you know if I do

Next thing is to get a plug in usb thingy from my mate so I can get internet.

Expect pictures shortly

Ta to everyone for the help by the way


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With regards to a screen especially since your going cheap id go to PC world and actually look at the screen and image quality first just to make sure your happy with it

Ebuyer were doing a Samsung pebble 20" for £120 offer the other day!

Melissa wrote:Ebuyer were doing a Samsung pebble 20" for £120 offer the other day!

Yeah I know!

Bloody brilliant offer and am very tempted but dont have the money, hope they keep the offer going a fair bit longer

Typing this on my PC

Yeah I got the internet working at long last lol

Glad you got it working

I have seen those samsung screens before very good..

That said screens seem to be cheap these days

hows the computer game, is it ok?

ps if you have any question for Chantelle, please email me, I will pass them on to her or remind her. Depending on he progress

or... u could just spend money and get a 2 quad cores... but then again............

That would be considerably over budget and would be over 100% redundancy.

Not a scalable option. Although irrelevant now anyway as he has built.