been a while since i last posted. my active days were when i had a 939 system which was a fair while ago.
currently building a gaming lan for me friends and myself with 4 PC on it. am amazed at how much PC you get for so little.
just recived all the new parts for the next on (PC-4) and shall commence the new build tomorrow. whoop whoop
what makes this special for me is that:
1. its my first AMD build in a few years and i am looking forward to it.
2. its cost my under £150 for all the new kit which includes the new case, power supply, motherboard, ram, CPU and graphics card.
3. its got an nvidia card, i am a die hard ATi fan
so to begin the specs are as follows;
£42.99 x 1 - Zotac 9500 GT 1024MB DDR2 HDTVDVIHDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(i know the 512 of DDR3 would be better but the price then was too high for the budget)
£39.99 x 1 - Asus Vintage V3-M2NC61P Barebones System - AMD64
£31.99 x 1 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2)
£14.99 x 1 - Elixir 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
spares from other PCs
80gb HD (1 possible 160 SATA - might be dead)
1280x1024 19" Samsung screen
Windows XP pro or Windows 7 Beta
no DVD rom - after the key software has been loaded it will be removed. if it needs any files it can get them via the shared drive on the network.
The rig will be used on the odd occasion i have people over hence the low spec. The games we spend most time playing are Insurgency which is not hardware intensive. maybe some UT2004 and civ 4 but pretty light weight stuff.
Not to be used for video encoding or any thing else I am sure this rig should be able to handle it.
thoughts on the components would be great, espch the 9500 GT (its a zotac)
im stuggling to find out much about the average temps since the 55nm revision and the overclocking capabilities. only found a handful of reviews online.
also overclocking using a software tool is a must. the cheap hardware might mean that it lacks any real BIOS controls and may force me to use a windows based overclocking tool. i would love to squeeze an extra 500mhz out of it. the question is can the hardware take it.
any one interested in the rest of the lan we use:
PC1
intel 3.1ghz (e2160)
msi neo FR2 P35
4 gig DDR 800
2x 500 gig samsung RAID0
4850 512mb
1680*1050 Samsung
PC2
intel 2.33 (e6550 stock - dell)
1950pro 256mb
160 gig
2 gig 677mhz
1440*900 DELL
PC3
AMD 2.7 (3700+)
6600 GT
160 gb
1 gig ddr 400
1280*1024 generic
netgear router/switch 100mb/10mb
6mb down 300kbps up Broadband
currently building a gaming lan for me friends and myself with 4 PC on it. am amazed at how much PC you get for so little.
just recived all the new parts for the next on (PC-4) and shall commence the new build tomorrow. whoop whoop
what makes this special for me is that:
1. its my first AMD build in a few years and i am looking forward to it.
2. its cost my under £150 for all the new kit which includes the new case, power supply, motherboard, ram, CPU and graphics card.
3. its got an nvidia card, i am a die hard ATi fan
so to begin the specs are as follows;
£42.99 x 1 - Zotac 9500 GT 1024MB DDR2 HDTVDVIHDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail
(i know the 512 of DDR3 would be better but the price then was too high for the budget)
£39.99 x 1 - Asus Vintage V3-M2NC61P Barebones System - AMD64
£31.99 x 1 - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4400+ 2.40GHz (Socket AM2)
£14.99 x 1 - Elixir 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
spares from other PCs
80gb HD (1 possible 160 SATA - might be dead)
1280x1024 19" Samsung screen
Windows XP pro or Windows 7 Beta
no DVD rom - after the key software has been loaded it will be removed. if it needs any files it can get them via the shared drive on the network.
The rig will be used on the odd occasion i have people over hence the low spec. The games we spend most time playing are Insurgency which is not hardware intensive. maybe some UT2004 and civ 4 but pretty light weight stuff.
Not to be used for video encoding or any thing else I am sure this rig should be able to handle it.
thoughts on the components would be great, espch the 9500 GT (its a zotac)
im stuggling to find out much about the average temps since the 55nm revision and the overclocking capabilities. only found a handful of reviews online.
also overclocking using a software tool is a must. the cheap hardware might mean that it lacks any real BIOS controls and may force me to use a windows based overclocking tool. i would love to squeeze an extra 500mhz out of it. the question is can the hardware take it.
any one interested in the rest of the lan we use:
PC1
intel 3.1ghz (e2160)
msi neo FR2 P35
4 gig DDR 800
2x 500 gig samsung RAID0
4850 512mb
1680*1050 Samsung
PC2
intel 2.33 (e6550 stock - dell)
1950pro 256mb
160 gig
2 gig 677mhz
1440*900 DELL
PC3
AMD 2.7 (3700+)
6600 GT
160 gb
1 gig ddr 400
1280*1024 generic
netgear router/switch 100mb/10mb
6mb down 300kbps up Broadband