Dad making new Computer - Need Advice

[blackcoat]

Hi, my dad has recently come across some cash and is now wanting to upgrade his 5 year old computer, which is running an FX5200 Gfx card.

He wants it for video editting, photoshop, Games such as Day of Defeat Source / Halflife 2 / and some of the games that will be coming out soon.

He Currently has the following and would like to keep them if possible - Case : Lianli Pc 60 , Mouse + k/board, 7.1 Speakers, 2 X Dvd roms, 4 X IDE Hard disk ( attached to a PCI Card)

He has selected the following items to upgrade too. ( Prices without VAT )

Total Budget = £800 ( this must include shipping and VAT )

Cpu - Intel Core2Duo E6750 @ £97.85
Cpu Fan - Scythe Infinity Quiet CPU Cooler @ £24.99
MotherBoard - ASUS P5K Intel iP35 Socket 775 Motherboard @ £62.95
Ram - OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 @ £39.99
Power Supply - OCZ 600W StealthXStream PSU @ £44.95
Gfx Card - Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI @ £137.99
Monitor - Samsung SM-226BW 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black @ £189.99
Sata HD - Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache @ £26.99

Total of all of this With VAT and Shipping is @ £756

He wants to know if this setup will work fine, and will it need any adjstments. For example a cheaper yet better Display? gfx card okay? Power supply up to it and has the right connections?

Thanks for any help

[blackcoat]

no one got any suggestions then ?

[Tarowah]

He wont be able to keep the IDE HD's, the P5K only has 1 IDE port and the CD will take up that slot so you might want to look at a bigger drive so he can pull all of the data from the 4 IDE drives onto the boot drive, or pick up a second SATA HD.



Everything else looks fine to me, it will be a solid system that should be fine for a few years.

[Movieman]

He wont be able to keep the IDE HD's, the P5K only has 1 IDE port and the CD will take up that slot so you might want to look at a bigger drive so he can pull all of the data from the 4 IDE drives onto the boot drive, or pick up a second SATA HD.



Everything else looks fine to me, it will be a solid system that should be fine for a few years.

Yes he will..Grab a single sata drive as a boot drive and the 4 ide's on a $20.00 promise IDE controler card in a 32bit PCI slot..

[Tarowah]

Yes he will..Grab a single sata drive as a boot drive and the 4 ide's on a $20.00 promise IDE controler card in a 32bit PCI slot..



Good call Movieman, the thought of an IDE controller card never entered my mind, I think I have SATA on the brain lol.

[ExodusC]

I suggest dropping the E6750 in favor of a Q6600, if you can dish out a little more.

[blackcoat]

I suggest dropping the E6750 in favor of a Q6600, if you can dish out a little more.

hmm will have to look into that, i might be able to do it now that I've managed to get it down to £756.

One quick question... Whats with the "Energy Efficent" Q6600? does it clock aswell as the non "Energy Efficent"? id guess it runs cooler but can it get to 3.2 / 3.6 ghz using the Scythe Infinity?

Cheers for all the help there. Yeah my dad already has an IDE Pci slot card for the hard disks.

Cheers all.

[zanzabar]

u need better ram than ocz look at getting some crucial or team extreme with micron dims