1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
£400 including shipping fees
3) Which country do you live in? If the U.S, please tell us the state and city if possible.
UK
4) What exact...
I've updated my original post with the required info for help building a new PC. :)
I plan to keep that on my current PC as it's more useful for work related tasks.
1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc
Gaming.
2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included?
£1.3k with shipping.
3) Where do you live?
UK
4) What exact parts do you need for that budget? CPU, RAM, case, etc. Please be very specific.
Monitor...
I've placed an order for the Asus Xonar D2, and it has both of those features which is cool.
Only reason I went with the Asus, is because it's £20 cheaper than the X-Fi Prelude. Thought I'd try something different than the X-Fi line of cards. I've only had the X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro...
I don't want to make a duplicate thread with the same question, so I'll ask here.
Will I be able to maximise the Vista Media Center window to my HDTV whilst controlling it with the remote, and then use the second monitor to browse the internet or play a game with the keyboard and mouse at the...
Can I do both or is that not possible? Like set the HTPC audio to analogue on the receiver when I want to play a game, then switch it back to digital when not gaming?
Also, if I could only use one source, would I be better off with a dedicated sound card for analogue audio, or will the...
I'm in the process of completing my HTPC, and I was wondering how would I go about connecting it to my av receiver? Is it as simple as taking the digital out from the motherboard to the receiver to get audio or do I need to buy a separate sound card?
Specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5K-E/WIFI-AP...
Thanks for the replies General Crespin & Dark Prodigy.
Guess I'll take your advice and look on eBay for that model. Cheers. :)
The Lite-ON drive will have to do until I find it lol.
OK. Thanks for all the extra info and tips everyone. :)
I'll be ordering the revised parts of my new PC over the weekend. Got Vista 64 today at a cheaper price by buying it through the company I work at. Almost 40% off. :D
Shame I can only order software through them. :(
Well that's settled then. Also which of the two 4 GB kits should I go with? The 2x2 GB OCZ or the 4x1 Corsair. Logic would tell me to go with the 2x2 GB OCZ....
That card is £30 more than X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro going at £120! I don't see the point in spending extra on it tbh, with the...
I currently have the Lite-ON LH-20A1S-11C marked down as my next DVD burner, but I've always liked the idea of slot loading DVD drives.
Can anyone recommend good slot loading DVD burners? I can't seem them anywhere (I'm in the UK). =/
Thought so. Thanks for putting me in the right direction. Just one more question about Raid, I heard that you need to have a floppy drive installed to setup a Raid array whilst you're installing Windows...is this true? If it is, it's no problem since I have one of those 7 in 1 drives that...
I will go with the P5K-E since it's even cheaper than the IP35 Pro, and the money saved from that has been put towards a 8800 Ultra. If I have a problem with the board, I can always send it back to Scan who are top notch e-tailers. Their RMA service is one of the best in the UK.
Would I be...
That's why I went with the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme heat sink lol. On second thoughts though, I don't really need the wifi, since I have a wireless router. :o
Do you think I'll be able to hit 3.6GHz with the Abit mobo and the Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme?
There isn't that much to be...
I gave my old system to my parents last month:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (@ 2.6 GHz)
ThermalRight SI-120
Panaflo FBA12G12L1A 120mm
Corsair TWINX2048 - 3200C2PRO
Maxtor 200GB Diamondmax Plus 10
XFX 256MB 7900GS XXX
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Pretty solid system, but I recently got a...
I've just installed Firefox on Windows XP Pro SP2, and I'm having trouble adding search engines to the search bar at the top right of the Firefox window. When I click the drop down menu, no search engines are listed, when I know for a fact that I've added a few from the Mozilla site.
What...
I plan on building a new Conroe system by the end of July / early August, spending about £1500 (roughly $2,766.52).
I have chosen the following parts:
Antec P180
Seasonic S12 600W
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
ThermalRight SI-120...