Tinker Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Time for an overhaul. Have been pricing up for a week now and think I am about good to go. But in no hurry to buy anything yet, maybe someone has some suggestions? I have some DVD drives already. Case Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus, Black Chassis Price £57.95 << Arrived MoBo / CPU P6X58D-E Motherboard & Core i7-930 2.8GHz Processor Price £369.99 << Arrived RAM Patriot Memory Viper II 12GB Series Sector 7 (3 x 4GB) Price £139.99 << Arrived Graphics Gainward GeForce GTX 460 700MHz 2GB GDDR5 DualDVI HDMI Price £173.60 << Arrived PSU OCZ OCZ700MXSP-UK / ModXStream Pro / 700W / Power Supply Unit / PSU Price £55.73 << Arrived Hard Drive Western Digital 500GB Caviar Blue SATA-300 7200rpm 16MB Price £31.99 << Arrived DVD Drive LiteOn 24x Int. DVDRW Black SATA + S/W Price £11.98 << Arrived OS Microsoft Windows 7 Professional OEM 64-bit English DVD Price £110.21 << Arrived Total = £953.48 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Congrats on the upcoming new system! My thoughts are interspersed below. Do you have a certain budget for your new build? MoBo / CPU P6X58D-E Motherboard & Core i7-930 2.8GHz Processor Price £369.99 If you are laying out that much for the CPU and are not in a rush, have you thought of waiting a little longer for the new Intel Sandy Bridge chips? They appear to have pretty impressive performance. Are you planning to overclock? Graphics Asus GeForce GTX 460 TOP 768MB Price £113.35 From what I've read the GeForce 5xx series is what the GF 4xx series was "supposed to be". I.e. lots of power but running at a decent temp and noise level. Have you looked at the 5xx series equivalent to the GF 460? AMD/Radeon cards are pretty competitive too vs. GF 4xx cards and may now be cheaper to compete with nVidia's refresh. Hard Drive Western Digital 500GB Caviar Blue SATA-300 7200rpm 16MB Price £31.99 These days I'd definitely recommend a 1TB to 1.5TB HD as you get more GB per pound/dollar spent. And they generally come with a larger 32MB cache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROCO*AFZ* Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Professional Windows 7? Do you connect to a domain, need the full backup or xp mode? if not home premium would be cheaper and has all the same features. Unlike the windows xp days, windows 7 actually is the same speed in both flavors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buehgler_AS Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I am with CR6 on the graphics card. If you are going to get a 460 at least get the 1GB version -- should just be a few dollars/pounds more for at least 5-10% boost in performance. It seems that the 570 is probably at a good price/performance point and will certainly last a good bit longer than a 400 series card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 The Sandy! Nice, but i am sure in 6 months will be more reasonable priced, and probably there will be something new that is far better will be again available. As for the graphics. Happy with the 4 range, taking on advice and going to grab a 1GB card instead. Hard drives. Well this will be my 3rd PC I have here now, other`s all have large space (300 & 500), plus I do have 2 x 500GB external HD`s. None have even reached 50% capacity. I have no real need for anything larger. W7 Pro for XP mode. All looking good so far, thnx for posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Atoa Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 (edited) Hi Tinker, I'm guessing you want that XP compatibility because of 3d Max 5 right???? becuase honestly XP mode sucks in W7 you don't need W7 pro...just go for W7 Home Premium and download vmware player for free, their xp legacy support is much much better and btw is the only one that does limited D3D support Edited January 16, 2011 by Sgt. Atoa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 16, 2011 Author Share Posted January 16, 2011 No I`ll not be running Max5 on this. Hopefully in the Summer will get my new license for the latest version of Max though. I am considering swapping the 750 PSU for THIS 650W version. Is not a modular unit but is more than enough for me and save around £45. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. Atoa Posted January 16, 2011 Share Posted January 16, 2011 (edited) I see well you can always do a dual boot if necessary, HD are cheap nowdays good luck with your new build Edited January 16, 2011 by Sgt. Atoa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 23, 2011 Author Share Posted January 23, 2011 Updated post. Saved a few buck so far, maybe look at putting in 2 x 460 cards at present, instead of 1, not too sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 All ordered, went for a 2GB card. Going to purchase a security suite for the first time. Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security 2011 looking good so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR6 Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 How much is that security suite? I think that is something you could save money on as there are quite a few decent free products out there ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halli~SPARTA~ Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Good info Tinker keep us updated as I would like to know how the new system runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 29, 2011 Author Share Posted January 29, 2011 How much is that security suite? Trend is £50 for 12 months, can install on 3 PC`s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJo1964 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Hi Tinker. I would have gone for minimum 800W PSU with that setup, but see how it goes. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Pretty sure it will be fine, in fact, it should run an SLI solution, if I end up with 2 cards. But if there any issues with it, I do have an 850W already here in this duel core machine I can swap over. Case arrived today, lovely looking thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Having issues with the RAM. Only seems to be recognizing 8GB out of 12GB. Couple of topic I found that seem to indicate it is an error with the X58 board: Bios not recognising all of my RAM Asus X58 + 6/12GB memory overclocking - detecting less memory than installed Although I am struggling to understand what is going on and how to fix it. Will do a basic test tomorrow, and insert 1 at a time, and see if all sticks work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROCO*AFZ* Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Oddly enough some folks are saying it can be the cpu fan if mounted too tight also or the processor mainboard pins if one is bent, Here is some more info http://forum.ncixus.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&msg_id=2260980&threadid=2260980&forum=101&product_id=52155&msgcount=12&overclockid=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 Tried each stick alone and all work fine, so not a RAM issue. Have remounted the CPU twice now, all seems perfectly fine there also, checked all pins and so. Still only 8GB showing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 Using just 2 sticks, I placed them into the correct positions above in #1 and #2 Only 4GB shows up! Placed the 2 sticks into #1 and #3 now 8GB show. So maybe the #2 slot is faulty? Right now not really in any trouble with this. 8GB is running fine. Have installed many programs and games. Played several games, having no issues at all. I will probably go and try to contact the motherboard manufacturers support first and see if that gives anything new. Pretty much spent a days holiday on this today, going to give up for now. I can grab another 3 sticks I guess, maybe then it will read 20GB instead of 24? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted April 10, 2011 Author Share Posted April 10, 2011 Never solved this issue. Still running 8GB of RAM. Checked both the RAM and MB sites, tried every solution available, no joy. Problem is, about to build a new modding PC similar to this. Now I need to look at different parts, to ensure this issue does not appear. Maybe a different brand of RAM this time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Bought some new RAM to try: Corsair Memory Dominator 12GB Still only shows 8GB. SLI solution is not working either, though both cards are being recognized and state no problems. Contacted the shop and arranged to have the motherboard picked up for testing. Hope I get a result with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpl Ledanek Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Tinker, ask "Yellowbeard" for any Corsair Support here .... he's a majestic man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted October 16, 2011 Author Share Posted October 16, 2011 I sent the MB and CPU bundle back last month, They confirmed the MB was defective. Had a refund as the store had no more stock. Bought a X58 Sabertooth and the i7 960, all up and running, all 12GB of RAM is there. At last. SLI solution would not work because I had 2 cards that where the exact same model and brand, however 1 has 2GB memory, and the other has only 1GB. However there is a hack over on the Nvidia site that can fix this. It basically sets both cards to run at the lowest factor. So both cards are now fully running in SLI mode, they both run at 1GB of memory each. Details of this can be found here: Use the following steps to enable Coolbits So finally fully functioning. Now time to start building a second to replace my much outdated modding machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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