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  Damo_R34 said:
im looking at getting a desktop comp soonish to replace the laptop. im not an uber l337 gamer so i dont want anything too fancy, just something thats gonna handle online games like runescape in HD.

was thinking something like this with the AMD AM2 Athlon x2 5200+. Thoughts and possible upgrades?

As much as I do like AMD, the Core2Due and Core2Quad cpu platform is superior (the i7 is even better but pricy). The Core2 cpus use a hell of a lot less electricity compared to AMD and therefore don't generate as much heat, which means you dont need to put a shitload of fans in the case to keep it cool (which then means you have a nice quiet system)...

-D

What's you budget Damo?

Yeah, got to agree Intel have the better performing processors atm, and for the next year or two I can't see AMD coming out with anything new to really challenge Intel's tech either.

i don't do enough things to warrant a sweet ass pc, i don't download uber amounts of movies etc, and dont play games that have as many needs as a wife of a rich husband.

Think i might go this combo that Steve did for me:

Intel Daul Core E5200

Gigabyte EP43-DS3L

Western Digital WD640gb

2G-800 Kingston

Ati 512M 4670 Gigabyte

CASE 650w Power Supply Black

Microsoft Windows Vista Business

OEM Logitech Internet Key/Mouse

3.5” Floppy Drive

DVD Pioneer 216 Burner

comes to $820 plus build.

  Damo_R34 said:
i don't do enough things to warrant a sweet ass pc, i don't download uber amounts of movies etc, and dont play games that have as many needs as a wife of a rich husband.

Think i might go this combo that Steve did for me:

Intel Daul Core E5200

Gigabyte EP43-DS3L

Western Digital WD640gb

2G-800 Kingston

Ati 512M 4670 Gigabyte

CASE 650w Power Supply Black

Microsoft Windows Vista Business

OEM Logitech Internet Key/Mouse

3.5” Floppy Drive

DVD Pioneer 216 Burner

comes to $820 plus build.

If you're going to go for a LGA775 board you might as well go for a Quad core (Q6600/Q9400/Q9550), gives you plenty of grunt and future proofs you for longer than the dual core will.

well there is THIS setup, but about 3-400 more than i wanted to spend.

Intel Quad Core Q8200

Gigabyte EP43-DS3L

Western Digital WD640gb

4GB Kit DDR2 800 Kingston-HyperX

Ati 512M 4850 Gigabyte

CASE 650w Power Supply Black

Microsoft Windows Vista Business

OEM Logitech Internet Key/Mouse

3.5” Floppy Drive

DVD Pioneer 216 Burner

  Damo_R34 said:
well there is THIS setup, but about 3-400 more than i wanted to spend.

Intel Quad Core Q8200

Gigabyte EP43-DS3L

Western Digital WD640gb

4GB Kit DDR2 800 Kingston-HyperX

Ati 512M 4850 Gigabyte

CASE 650w Power Supply Black

Microsoft Windows Vista Business

OEM Logitech Internet Key/Mouse

3.5” Floppy Drive

DVD Pioneer 216 Burner

That's better

Now ditch the floppy and make sure that 640Gb WD drive is indeed a AAKS model and not the green power shit that MSY are trying to sell. If you can stretch to 2 of these drives, do that and run the in RAID 0

  TALBO said:
That's better

Now ditch the floppy and make sure that 640Gb WD drive is indeed a AAKS model and not the green power shit that MSY are trying to sell. If you can stretch to 2 of these drives, do that and run the in RAID 0

Whats wrong with WD green hdd's? I got two and they work really well.... less power consumption = less heat output = quieter machine

-D

  Dohmar said:
Whats wrong with WD green hdd's? I got two and they work really well.... less power consumption = less heat output = quieter machine

-D

From my benchmarks they're slower than the black AAKS drives. These days about the only drives that make any noticable noise are the WD 10K Raptor drives

  TALBO said:
From my benchmarks they're slower than the black AAKS drives. These days about the only drives that make any noticable noise are the WD 10K Raptor drives

the noise that i was referring to is fan noise for the extra cooling... not sure about performance since I use the green drives as data storage only (movies, music, software packages, iso's etc).... tho I do have a wd raptor as my windows/scratch/installed software drive... they flog but they are indeed noisy suckers...

next system i get i'll probably get a second wd raptor, raid0 the two raptors and raid1 two green wd's.... raid0 with raptors should kick arse

-D

  Dohmar said:
the noise that i was referring to is fan noise for the extra cooling... not sure about performance since I use the green drives as data storage only (movies, music, software packages, iso's etc).... tho I do have a wd raptor as my windows/scratch/installed software drive... they flog but they are indeed noisy suckers...

next system i get i'll probably get a second wd raptor, raid0 the two raptors and raid1 two green wd's.... raid0 with raptors should kick arse

-D

The green drives are 5400RPM and you do get a slight performance hit from them. I use my PC and Mac for mainly audio recording so I kinda need all the performance I can get. I have black AAKS 640Gb drives in both my PC and Mac and they're pretty impressive performers

I wanna to get rid of my 74Gb Raptor which is my XP OS drive and get 2 x 300Gb raptors....... that'll f**kin' dominate in RAID 0.

Edited by TALBO
  DamageInc said:
Microsoft Windows Vista Business is a waste of money imo

yeah didnt mean that i wrote it up @ about 11:30pm after doing a week of 12hr shifts

meant Vista Home Premium

im from the old school of 5'25" floppies its habit to just chuck a 3'5" in when there only $15

they were the shiz used to take 2x 10 disc boxes to school and play games @ lunch and have a geeky good time on IBM XT's

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