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| Thread ID: 123019 | 2012-01-28 03:28:00 | New PC needed. Looking for a good supplier of components | mchaggis (16202) | Press F1 |
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| 1256355 | 2012-01-28 23:46:00 | Get a case and don't grab the PSU with it. Grab a corsair modular 750 watts or thereabouts. Makes for nice cabling and the corsair PSU's are great. www.pbtech.co.nz |
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| 1256356 | 2012-01-29 01:59:00 | Thanks for that. And the other bits? | mchaggis (16202) | ||
| 1256357 | 2012-01-29 02:29:00 | Have you looked for anything at all? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1256358 | 2012-01-29 02:50:00 | LOL. Yes I've had a good look for bits but I haven't been looking for the last 4 year so I'm miles out of date with everything. i.e. I don't know what a good HHD is. WD Black or a velocity raptor etc. Does a SATA 6 work OK with most MB's or do they need to be SATA 6 specific. It's that sort of info I'm looking for. The last PC I got I ended up with an Asus GeForce 8600GT which is not great with some games, 3D, etc yet was told by the wa-ker that sold it to me that is was the best. The first one was faulty from day 1. I don't want to run off unprepared again and end up with a poor, yet pricey system so I'm looking for help from guys that know best. That's why I'm asking you lot. |
mchaggis (16202) | ||
| 1256359 | 2012-01-29 04:28:00 | well a good system obviously costs alot of money and it is somewhat exponential eg a 30 dollar GPU is better value for money than a 600 dollar one | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1256360 | 2012-01-29 04:54:00 | The newer mobos support SATA 3 (there is no SATA 6). If you find a mobo, (that you're going to buy), look at its specs on the manufacturer's site. Before you get the CPU and hdd (so you'll know what cpu's are compatible, (doesnt matter if the mobo supports SATA 3, SATA 2 hdd's if you get one should work). They just wont be as fast as SATA 3. I've never used a WD hdd. Only Seagate. I've never had a Nvidia card either, from what I've read, most of their drivers are crap. And the only thing they do is crash. But that may change soon :p |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1256361 | 2012-01-29 05:15:00 | For performance the best combo is an SSD and a big HDD, the WD black is a nice drive and Mine has been going strong for some time but several people on here have advised they have a higher failure rate than most other WD and seagate drives. I'd go a 120 or 160G SSD and a 2TB WD Blue data/program drive myself. And Windows 7 home premium 64 bit would be my recommendation, any 32bit OS will not be able to use more than 4GB of RAM. Any current MB and SATA hdd should work together fine, and the newer SATA interface is backwards compatible anyway. Some older chipsets have problems with the HDDs over 2TB but that's about the only issue I'm aware of. And Speedy I hear the same thing about ATI, I've used both and they both make awesome cards. I've personally had more driver issues with ATI but only on new model cards that have just been released and both sides have problems at that stage. |
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| 1256362 | 2012-01-29 05:34:00 | isnt home premium caped at 8 or 16gb of ram? | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1256363 | 2012-01-29 08:59:00 | ^Limited to 16gb. | Cato (6936) | ||
| 1256364 | 2012-01-29 11:20:00 | Didn't know that, still 16GB is plenty for most people, 8GB is more than enough for current games, and people with 4GB still manage just fine. 8GB is the current sweet spot with diminishing returns kicking in right about there for all but the most demanding users. |
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