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New PC
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:51 am
by Porky
ok i aint got the money or time or nohow to build a nasa rig like games....
what i want is a rdy built 1 that all i have to do is plug it in and go and if it fooks up....return it to 1 place....
have been looking at this 1....what ya think?? its gotta be a rig that will last a while...some of it is in danish....but it aint rocket science what it means
Tekniske Specifikationer:
Motherboard: Gigabyte X58-UD3 motherboard (Nyhed)
(Intel X58 chipset)
CPU køler: Temperaturstyret køler
Ram: 6 GB DDR3 RAM TriChannel (1333MHz) NYHED
Harddisk: Samsung 750GB S-ATAII 3Gb/s 32mb cache
Grafik: nVidia GeForce GTX260 896MB dedikeret PCI-E
Kabinet: Aplus Miditower Deluxe LowNoise (Ekstra køling)
Strømforsyning 650W strømforsyning supersilent
Lyd: 8 kanals HD audio codec ALC889a Dolby (SoundBlaster komp.)
Drev: Sony 20x DVD-brænder +/- Dual layer
Netkort: 100/1000 Mb/s Realtek 8111 Gigabit LAN
Software: Alle drivere m.v. medfølger.
Køling: Støjsvage kølere og strømforsyning
Service: Vision ServicePack
Stik/forbindelser:
8 x USB 2.0 Port (4 x Interne, 4 x på bagsiden)
1 x RJ-45 LAN 100/1000 Gigabit Jack
6 x SATAII 3GB/s Connectors
2 x DVI
Re: New PC
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:32 am
by Sky
CPU? it's not listed.
DON'T get Vista, Windows 7 releases in October.
If you do get Vista make sure you get it with a free upgrade to 7
Re: New PC
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:47 am
by Porky
Intel - Core i7-920 4x2.66GHz 4,8GT/sec
or here...(click on link intel game special, danish site im afraid)
http://www.mm-vision.dk/produkter/vispc ... e=pcsystem
theres 2 higher upgrades...but its abit outa my price range seeing as i need a new screen aswell
and was getting the cheapest vista until 7 comes out
Re: New PC
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 6:49 pm
by GrumpyOG
Keep the xp license off your current pc till October
Re: New PC
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 7:40 pm
by IceT-Bag
Personally I'd stick with XP till Windows 7 SP1 is released, atleast then we'll all know if its an improvement over Vista.
Re: New PC
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:09 am
by Sky
IceT-Bag wrote:Personally I'd stick with XP till Windows 7 SP1 is released, atleast then we'll all know if its an improvement over Vista.
Windows 7 RC is an improvement over Vista, just upgraded my test rig so I'll try some games on it this weekend.
If you look at windows history 7 has got to work
3.1 worked
95 didn't
98 worked
ME didn't (but 2000 did)
XP worked (for the most part)
Vista (even MS are trying to forget this one)
7 (anyone else noticed the 9th edition of windows is called 7? I thought it was only pentiums that couldn't count)
@Porky you could either buy it OS free and do as Grumps suggests and use your existing XP key (if it's a OEM brand like Dell there's a good chance the license has never been used) or use 7 RC until 7 full arrives (I've got keys if you need one)
Re: New PC
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:19 am
by Porky
if i use xp tho....noob question....
.....wouldnt i have probs with the ram??...thought xp only saw 2 or 3 gigs??
to be honest this was more about the rig on what you think...as im a noob with pcs
@ sky whats windows 7 RC is it like a beta version??
Re: New PC
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:49 am
by IceT-Bag
XP can only make use of a 3gb ram, however there is no game out there at present that requires such memory requirements, so 3gb should be fine, unless you're doing loads of video editing.
Re: New PC
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:05 am
by Sky
32bit OS like XP or Vista_32 & W7_32 can only address 4gb including gfx memory, windows reserves 0.25gb because it wants to.
Usable memory = total ram - 0.25gb - gfx ram ie:
4gb - 0.25gb - 0.5gb = 3.25gb usable ram
W7 RC = Release Candidate, post beta, pre release. Looks pretty good at first glance, because it's vista related there's less driver problems than when vista was released. Release to manufacturing = end of July (dell etc), general release = October
Re: New PC
Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:17 pm
by games
porky mate you wont go wrong getting an i7 chip and a x58 motherboard ....but i would say get a 64 bit operating like vista dont get a 32bit vista i tryed windows 7 and i was off line for 3 days reinstalling vista ....