You thar. My 6 year old vaio is getting, errrrr, slightly old now, so I've been told by my parents to come up with a new system which we can then build. So far I've decided on:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (£120)Motherboard: MSI P6N SLI Platinum (£91)Memory: Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC8000 1GB x 3 (£106*3)Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB (£153)Graphics: PNY GeForce 8800GTS 640MB (£275)Power: Antec Neo He 500 (500W, £63)Case: Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 (£98)OS: Windows Vista Ultimate (???)TOTAL COST: £1118However, I'm also thinking of using these instead:Power: FSP Epsilon 700 (700W, £101)Storage: Hitachit CinemaStar 7K500 250GB x 2 (£46*2)So, anything else I need?Thanks,blue
Yeah, get Windows XP, faster, better, and cheaper. I know many people that bought Vista. Now they all say that Vista is bad.
Vista sucks man, get XP. I installed Vista in my new pc a few months ago and now I'm stuck with this stupid OS; with Vista you're guaranteed that 90% of your stuff won't work.
Most, if not all computers selling currently use Vista. Why do they always have to upgrade everything?
Plus Vista Ultimate is like $400.
I know, I know, I would love to stay with XP but I think Microsoft ends support for it sometime in 2008.
Hey blue213 if your in the UK like me a great place for computer parts is either ebuyer.com, good quality and great price.
However you could get the CPU and motherboards and 1 GB of ram in a bundle at http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/ a very large a great company.This could save you a bit of money and then you could just buy the extra ram from them seperatly. The motherboard bundle has the CPU RAM and Heat sink fitted and tested for 24 hours so you know the product will work out the box.For example at Novatech you can get http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage?MBB-C2D620which is Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 and comes with 2048Mb 667Mhz DDR2 240pincosting £304 instead of £423 of brought sepratly, and as i said the system is tested and comes with a 3 year guarantee along with the guarantee of the individual components.Also the motherboard has 2 free slots meaning you could easily upgrade to 4 GB of ram. As your saving £123 you could probably get a extra GB with that. Also with the package your getting a faster process the E6600 which is dual 2.4 GHz. ,AshleyThanks for the tips and comments guys, I'll look into those matters.
Well really what you have at the moment is a good spec its just getting it from the best place. Check out the site i gave you, thats really all we can help you with. However as already stated i would get two smaller drives, the ones you have listed for £46 are fine for the job.
If you wanted redundancy and 250GB was enough space you could also put them in Raid 1, or get two 500GB and place them in Raid 1.Meaning if one hard drive was to crash then data would not be lost and the hard drive can be replaced and the array would be rebuilt.However for a basic home computer this may be more of a slow down than helpful due to the add length of writing due to having to write to two disk, however reads are faster as double the amount of data can be accessed at once.Basically, exactly what OL said. [:P]
Oh and I have also had good service from Novatech, I would recommend them.