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Zeusiaan   05-16-2007 at 10:47:39 AM

Dear friends at TH,
I need your advice about a PC I am willing to order within a month.
The main purpose of the system is gaming. I know the planned Graphics card and processor are not the best but I rather spend some more money on the Mobo so I can upgrade them later (PC is gonna be pre-ordered with an OEM version of Windows Vista and as far as I know an OEM version does not work if you change the motherboard,(I'm not sure, advise?)).

I live in Holland so prices are in Euro's.

Case: Antec Midi Tower Sonata II Life Style ATX 450W €104.50
Motherboard: Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus nForce 650i SLI, SATA2 €159.00
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.80GHz FSB800 2MB Box € 113.00
Graphics Card: Sapphire Videokaart PCI-e Radeon X1950 Pro
256MB 2xDVI/VIVO €132.50
RAM: Corsair 2x1GB DDR2 SDRAM PC5400 CL4.0 TwinX €89.50
Harddrive: Western Digital 320GB SATA300 16MB, WD3200YS € 85.50
DVD: Asus DVD-/+/RAM DRW-1814BLT 18x/18x/8x LS €34.00
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium NL OEM €87.50
The shop will put this together for €35 and will deliver it to my house for €11 which makes a total price of € 851.50

I know the Mobo is meant for two NVidia's but I will not be using more than 1 Graphics card. It just supports 1333 Mhz FSB so I think I can upgrade the PC better than with other Mobo's.

Any advice will be welcome, also about (save) overclocking the E4300. My current PC is Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz (Northwood) which I managed to overclock to 3.1 Ghz by changing the setting in BIOS (so no volyage setting or anything, don't know sh*t about that) The price must stay under 900 but preferably as low as possible.

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alcattle   05-16-2007 at 10:56:21 AM
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Hope that is a type on the CPU, I figured closer to €83.
Not a bad rig for $1150, I might have gone for 667 RAM but that will work to start. The C2D is the same o/c'ing, change the FSB to change the GHZ, 2.5 will be easy, some people can reach 3.0, YMMV.

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Zeusiaan   05-16-2007 at 11:37:48 AM
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Ok, I did a little searching for another case and power supply.
I found this (PSU also come with case):

Antec LifeStyle Sonata III (ATX, 500W

It comes with an EarthWatts 500 Power Supply which is good according to this review http://www.sysopt.com/features/cas [...] hp/3660031

The case also looks better than Sonata II and costs only € 107,94

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alcattle   05-16-2007 at 12:40:34 PM
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For that much, I would find a case you like and get a seperate PSU. $145 is a bunch for a case/PSU

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alcattle   05-16-2007 at 01:15:45 PM
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I like the looks of the Antec Solo, for that price. I got an Antec 900 but that is a bit more.

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