Computer Ordered: **Build pics up***
 

I can't wait!! Pics as and when things arrive 8)


Item: Mitsumi OEM Silver Internal Floppy Drive 1.44mb 3.5 Inch
Qty: 1
Cost: 3.48

Item: Aopen DUW1616L 16x DVD±RW Dual Layer Internal IDE Retail Chameleon (beige/silver/black)
Qty: 1
Cost: 26.99

Item: Maxtor 6V160E0 160GB SATA300 7200rpm 8MB Cache - OEM
Qty: 1
Cost: 41.99

Item: Enermax Liberty 400W Modular ATX2.2 PSU
Qty: 2
Cost: 43.98

Item: Lian Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Silver Mid Tower Case - No PSU
Qty: 1
Cost: 45.14

Item: Creative Speakers I-Trigue 3400 - 2.1 41W RMS Speakers
Qty: 1
Cost: 38.28

Item: Acer TravelMate 2403WXMi Cel-M 370 1.5GHz 512MB 40GB
DVD±RW 14.1" WLAN XP Home
Qty: 1
Cost: 388.07

Item: Foxconn 955X7AA-8EKRS (775) ATX / Intel 955X / PCI-E
Qty: 1
Cost: 109.91

Item: Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
Qty: 4
Cost: 2.95

Item: Gainward BLISS GeForce 7800 GT "Goes Like Hell" 512MB
GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GWGFFX7647) (GX-026-GW)
Qty: 1
Cost: 209.95

Item: Intel Pentium 4 920 Dual Core "LGA775 Presler" 2.8GHz
(800FSB) - Retail (CP-111-IN)
Qty: 1
Cost: 154.95

Item: Corsair 1GB DDR2 XMS2-5400 TwinX (2x512MB) (MY-059-CS)
Qty: 1
Cost: 69.95

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Keep us updated mate :wink: and congrats !

Thank you :P

I will have a full photographic record of the build 8)

Nice shopping in your money, everything is so cheap :lol: I need to mulitply all that by 2 hehe


Keeps us posted.

Ahh, VAT and shipping costs need to be added to all that.

In total it came to £1450 but that includes a fairly handy desktop and a basic laptop (just for word/internet).

why is there 2 PSU's and 4 things of thermal paste?

Me no like aopen and foxconn ... the rest is good ... p4 is not bad at all .

I put in an order for a mate to save on delivery.

I am pretty sure, somebody, somewhere has an 'issue' with everything I have bought!! It is a lose lose situation. I am pretty happy with it and it should run fairly quick.

:o Oh no! :(

What did I do wrong?

From now on I will start the day chanting: "I will not buy Intel, Foxconn, Maxtor or Aopen".

Having said that, the Foxconn 955X blah blah blah is pretty good IMO so...... :slap: hehe

:wink:

hehehehe congrats man! sounds good ;)

looking forward to build pics as I am going to be building a media PC in the near future.

hope you enjoy your new toy, Jon.

what games, if any, will you be playing on it?

Ahh, I will reveal the games at a later date :wink:

(translate as: I am not 100% yet lol)

Re: Computer Ordered: The final speck list....
 

Everything looks fine, but what made you go for a 512mb one? There aren't any advantages to spending more on 512.

My decision to go for the Gainward was based on several factors. While you may not agree with what I am about to say, they, IMO make sense and as a result I am happy with my decision.

1) A simple issue regarding cost, with the release of the 7900 cards, the cost of the Gainward came down by £40 odd, which put it firmly in my price bracket.

2) The performance advantage of the Gainward is through a combination of factors, not just the 512mb. The card is already OC’d (as indicated by Gainward's "Goes like Hell" ('GLH') range) to 450/650 as compared with the standard GT reference boards which are at 400/500.

I accept that you can do this yourself, but hey, I am lazy. Although, probably more accurate; I do not feel that I have enough knowledge to embark on overclocking properly. I am at the stage of "a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing". Having said that, by all accounts, the GLH range of cards can be clocked further.

3) Regarding the 512Mb, it should be noted that not only is there more memory, but perhaps more importantly it is running quicker at 1.3 GHz. (Compared to the 256Mb of 1Ghz).

4) Regarding the 512 v 256 'debate', I bought the card with an eye on the future. Currently, games may not demand 512Mb, but they will eventually. There is a marked performance difference between 256 and 512 when running games at high quality settings (i.e when the 256mb card uses over 100mb of system memory), perhaps nothing really noticeable now, but as games get inevitably more complex I believe the gap will open.

One reviewer summed up my position:

So, all in all, the Gainward GLH card can more than hold its own, further at the time of purchase it undercut the 1800s on price. It does out perform other 7800 GT cards so I put my money where my mouth is and got it.


256mb v 512mb (using a a de-clocked Gainward card as a reference)
http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=33&page=1

a review of the Gainward 7800 GT GLH 512mb:
http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=32&page=1

Looks like my building skills are going to be publicly judged!! Better do a good job of putting it together now then :D