New Pc

[Scattergun]

My computer is in the shop and i am buying some new stuff for my case that i am building for a friend.

Intel P4 630 (3.0 Ghz LGA 775 800mhz Fsb and 2mb L2 cache)
ATI x1600Pro 512 Version
1 Gig G.Skillz DDR2 667 Ram
Rosewill 550W Power Supply
Hitachi Deskstar 80 gig Hard Drive at 7200 Rpm
MSI RC410M-L Socket T (775) mobo w/ PCI-e

am i missing anything i am using my own older Case, Sound Card, and Optical Drives.

[Terry]

sounds like a good system to me m8.

only thing i might consider is maybe setting up 2 harddrives? think it would run everything slightly faster.

[Mstenger404]

hey is that vid card 512 megs?

[Lucky]

yes it is

nice comp, better than mine

[Scattergun]

Originally posted by Mstenger404
hey is that vid card 512 megs?

Yes it is 512 mb


Link to card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102652


Might go with another H-drive Tin i am not to sure though i got 1 extra 60 gig Western Digital sitting here and i might pop them in in Raid 0/1

[Hellfighter]

keep a eye on the CPU temperature.

this is a good time have to computer shop find out what work best to keep the CPU temp at a nice cool temp.

the right CPU Fan for a 775 serials be good.
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i hear MSI mobo type one have to go to their site or online to get the drivers and software for them, reason i got a intel mother broad came with the software and all the drivers for it, besides the cables for it.

how much is the MSI MOB costing you?

[Steve]

HDD is too small, other than that things look good

[zaitsev]

it depeneds on what the machine is being used for, i dont see how people can say its a "good machine" or "needs a bigger hard drive" without knowing what its going to be used for. The machine is over kill if all his mate is going to do is just word processing, and on the other end of the scale if his doing heavey rendering then the specs wont be high enough

[Steve]

$10 he's a gamer

[zaitsev]

why does he need a hard drive bigger than 80Gb for gaming?

[Steve]

didn't specifically say that, although with newer games comming out requiring 7+GB of space it's pretty dam easy for a gamer to fill around 70 gb with enough free space for the drive to function correctly.

iirc my Ghost recon install folder is around 10GB (w/mods), then i have another 5gb of stored mods.

mods, patches, utilities, my own mods / maps etc = another 25GB (for other games).

maybe it's just me but i can fill 80 no problems just with games, let alone mods etc.

[Scattergun]

Well Steve won his 10$ and he is a gamer but he also is a Vid Editor for our Schools Sport Highlight Section on the website

the MSI mobo is costing me bout 67$

the total for it all is about 535$ W/ S&H and 6% sales tax

the parts come in wednesday and i am gonna ask him later today if he has a h-drive he would like me to use or i could always put my old 60gig Western Digtal 7200 Rpm h-drive in it to give him 140 Gig

and yes todays games are becomming to big that is why the prices are 50+ for a newer game.

[Scattergun]

Yea my parts arrived today the only bad thing is i gotta work this whole weekend and monday-wednesday so no real time to put it together

I will have pics of it



Thsi is also my 400th post lol

[teej]

Looks good so far.