Computer Build

Hey, I just chucked together some parts on Ebuyer and want to know your comments/suggestions/tips, then I'll be buying this tommorow. http://tinypic.com/r/2r5ce92/5

It is mostly incompatible. Don't buy it tomorrow. I don't have time to suggest alternatives now though.

sorry i linked the wrong one :P here

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...JAR/build1.png

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Originally Posted by jimi

sorry i linked the wrong one :P here

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...JAR/build1.png

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Bump yourself up to the M4A77TD Pro. And I'd deeply consider you get an M4A89GTD Pro (also available with USB 3.0 for £15 more)

And get a better PSU. Corsair do good ones. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132563 would suffice.

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Originally Posted by Markeh

Bump yourself up to the M4A77TD Pro. And I'd deeply consider you get an M4A89GTD Pro (also available with USB 3.0 for £15 more)

And get a better PSU. Corsair do good ones. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132563 would suffice.

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Add on the list of not going AMD ;D

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Originally Posted by Recursion

Add on the list of not going AMD ;D

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I'll be honest, at his budget, he'd likely get an i3/low i5. AMD is his best bet.

AMD Phenom II are very good.

If you're going AMD, get the new 6 cores.

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Originally Posted by Stephen

If you're going AMD, get the new 6 cores.

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Not necessarily. If he doesn't do something like video encoding on a regular basis, it wouldn't be worth it.

Get a Phenom, though.

The new ones are phenom's and are not much more expensive than the quad core versions (the lowest model, anyway). You can grab one for about £155.

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Originally Posted by Stephen

The new ones are phenom's and are not much more expensive than the quad core versions (the lowest model, anyway). You can grab one for about £155.

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Link moi?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/p...5TFBGRBOX.html

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Originally Posted by LukeBateson

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/p...5TFBGRBOX.html

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Rekon I would see a difference between the 3.2GHz model and my X4 965 (3.4GHz) ?

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Originally Posted by MattFr

Rekon I would see a difference between the 3.2GHz model and my X4 965 (3.4GHz) ?

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Depends on what you're doing. If it's things like gaming then it will be slower. Threaded things such as encoding it will be noticeably quicker.

a 200Mhz difference wouldn't be even noticeable in games. Although, from your post in the specs thread, it seems you don't use your computer for games. So an extra two cores would be brilliant.

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Originally Posted by Stephen

a 200Mhz difference wouldn't be even noticeable in games. Although, from your post in the specs thread, it seems you don't use your computer for games. So an extra two cores would be brilliant.

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I'm not sure if £230 is worth the extra 2 cores tbh.

When you put it that way, it isn't worth it really. You could always sell your old CPU which would take a chunk out of the sting.

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Originally Posted by MattFr

I'm not sure if £230 is worth the extra 2 cores tbh.

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Unless you do encoding, it probably isn't.

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Originally Posted by Markeh

Bump yourself up to the M4A77TD Pro. And I'd deeply consider you get an M4A89GTD Pro (also available with USB 3.0 for £15 more)

And get a better PSU. Corsair do good ones. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132563 would suffice.

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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132563 <- has since become out of stock :@
coud you suggest me an alternative please?

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/174182

Seems like a good choice.