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On Wed, 11 May 2011 08:55:35 -0400, Paul wrote:
Craig Coope wrote: On Fri, 06 May 2011 11:16:54 +0100, Craig Coope wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to get back into PC gaming and want to build my first PC. I'm by no means a PC novice but I've been out of the scene for 7 years or so, so I'm oblivious about current CPUs and Mobos etc. I'm looking to spend around £800 (or maybe a bit more) on the components excluding the monitor, keyboard and mouse. I would like to go down the Intel route and probably start on the Nvidea path as I've always been ATI previously. I was looking at this CPU: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel...che-95w-retail What mobo would be best for this? And then which RAM and PSU should I get? When I bought my old AMD A64 3400+ back in the day the whole line (of that socket set) was about to be phased out which to be honest wasn't a problem as I never wanted to upgrade the CPU. Now I don't want to buy something that's about to die. Are we on the cusp of something new I need to wait for? Thanks Also this may sound retarded but is everything pretty much 64-bit now? My 7 year old PC is an AMD 64 but I never installed a 64 bit OS as at that time there wasn't much support. -- The Zero ST By the way, there are currently (13) Z68 based motherboards listed on newegg.com. Priced from $119 to $349. I tried to download the manual for the $349 one, but apparently it isn't on the Gigabyte site yet. And the first Z68 review for Anandtech just went up. The LGA1155 limits the video configurations to x16/x0 and x8/x8, similar to LGA1156, and that is the only limitation someone interested in SLI or Crossfire might be concerned with. And there really aren't a lot of review articles that test that out. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4330/asus-p8z68v-review Supports ATI Crossfire Supports NVIDIA SLI So now you can decide whether Z68 is the right answer, or punt and go LGA1366 (budget permitting). HTH, Paul Thanks Paul and everyone else... Will look into all of this. -- The Zero ST |
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On Wed, 11 May 2011 08:55:35 -0400, Paul wrote:
Craig Coope wrote: On Fri, 06 May 2011 11:16:54 +0100, Craig Coope wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to get back into PC gaming and want to build my first PC. I'm by no means a PC novice but I've been out of the scene for 7 years or so, so I'm oblivious about current CPUs and Mobos etc. I'm looking to spend around £800 (or maybe a bit more) on the components excluding the monitor, keyboard and mouse. I would like to go down the Intel route and probably start on the Nvidea path as I've always been ATI previously. I was looking at this CPU: http://www.scan.co.uk/products/intel...che-95w-retail What mobo would be best for this? And then which RAM and PSU should I get? When I bought my old AMD A64 3400+ back in the day the whole line (of that socket set) was about to be phased out which to be honest wasn't a problem as I never wanted to upgrade the CPU. Now I don't want to buy something that's about to die. Are we on the cusp of something new I need to wait for? Thanks Also this may sound retarded but is everything pretty much 64-bit now? My 7 year old PC is an AMD 64 but I never installed a 64 bit OS as at that time there wasn't much support. -- The Zero ST By the way, there are currently (13) Z68 based motherboards listed on newegg.com. Priced from $119 to $349. I tried to download the manual for the $349 one, but apparently it isn't on the Gigabyte site yet. And the first Z68 review for Anandtech just went up. The LGA1155 limits the video configurations to x16/x0 and x8/x8, similar to LGA1156, and that is the only limitation someone interested in SLI or Crossfire might be concerned with. And there really aren't a lot of review articles that test that out. http://www.anandtech.com/show/4330/asus-p8z68v-review Supports ATI Crossfire Supports NVIDIA SLI So now you can decide whether Z68 is the right answer, or punt and go LGA1366 (budget permitting). HTH, Paul Would the following go together well? http://www.ebuyer.com/product/267772 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/252535 -- The Zero ST |
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Craig Coope wrote:
Would the following go together well? http://www.ebuyer.com/product/267772 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/252535 The 2600K is listed here for the P8Z68-V PRO. http://support.asus.com/Cpusupport/L...20PRO&p=1&s=39 It would be nice to have a downloadable PDF manual for the motherboard to read first, but a previous poster has noticed that only the German version of the manual is available for download as of today. I suppose you can always look at the pictures... http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...8Z68-V-PRO.zip Paul |
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