[merton123]

hi. i am saving for this computer that i custom built online. cant wait its going to be great. i got 300 and need 490£. should get it next month. comments on it please and if u want to know where im getting it pm me because i got banned for advertising on another forum.

AMD64 Athlon X2 3600+ AM2
CPU Cooler : Standard CPU heatsink & fan
Motherboard : Asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA
Memory : 4.0GB Kingston DDR2 667mhz (4x 1GB)
Hard Drive : 250GB S-ATA2 3.0Gb/s
Optical Drive :18x Double-Layer DVD+/-RW
Graphics card : NVidia GeForce 8800GTS PCI-E 320MB
PSU : 600W PSU
Case : EZCool K110

Warranty : Bronze Warranty (3 year RTB)

i cant wait!!!!! anyone care to donate £190 to a 16 year old for his future in IT? no.. no?? didnt think so lol

[alex]

Originally Posted by merton123 hi. i am saving for this computer that i custom built online. cant wait its going to be great. i got 300 and need 490£. should get it next month. comments on it please and if u want to know where im getting it pm me because i got banned for advertising on another forum. AMD64 Athlon X2 3600+ AM2 CPU Cooler : Standard CPU heatsink & fan Motherboard : Asrock AM2NF6G-VSTA Memory : 4.0GB Kingston DDR2 667mhz (4x 1GB) Hard Drive : 250GB S-ATA2 3.0Gb/s Optical Drive :18x Double-Layer DVD+/-RW Graphics card : NVidia GeForce 8800GTS PCI-E 320MB PSU : 600W PSU Case : EZCool K110 Warranty : Bronze Warranty (3 year RTB) i cant wait!!!!! anyone care to donate £190 to a 16 year old for his future in IT? no.. no?? didnt think so lol

Looks good Merton but if it was me (and considering the games you quoted you play in your other post) I'd be losing 2gb of ram and using the saving to get a faster cpu.

You're not going to get the full benefit of the 8800GTS with the AMD chip you've quoted.

[SocialWarfare]

I would drop 2gigs of that RAM and get a better motherboard so that you can overclock the cpu, as the 3600+ brisbane are great overclockers and should hit around 2.6-3.0GHz, which will get rid of the bottleneck to your graphics card
Edit: also if you are using XP, 4gigs is a waste of time as it will not recognise 4(3 max)
But you will not need anymore than 2gigs for gaming anyway

[merton123]

yer im using vista though. i think its ok as it is bt would i really notice the difference with overclocking.?

[merton123]

thanks for avice. i think i will drop the ram then, i have changes the 3600 with a 4800. will that be better for gaming then?

[Wolfeymole]

You can just Edit your post Merton if you suddenly remember something else mate.

[SocialWarfare]

Originally Posted by merton123 thanks for avice. i think i will drop the ram then, i have changes the 3600 with a 4800. will that be better for gaming then?

Why don't you do as I said and buy a 3600+ with a good mobo and overclock it to the speeds of a 5200 or higher and save yourself some money?

[alex]

If you want to go the oc route, then go with SW's suggestion (another good post fella).

If you don't want to overclock then going for the 4800 is a good idea. It's a decent chip in of itself and will suit the 8800 card you have.

Don't forget though that AMD cpu's like lower latency ram due to the ram controller, so get the lowest latency you can afford. I'd also have a look at getting DDR2 6400 (800mhz ram) rather than the 667mhz. It generally doesn't cost very much more when you consider the performance boost.

[grush]

If you're going to OC factor in a decent heatsink and fan as well.

[alex]

Originally Posted by grush If you're going to OC factor in a decent heatsink and fan as well.

You got there before me Grush, came back to edit that onto my orginal post. But thanks for adding it on the thread.

Yeah, definately get a decent hsf. Can't beat the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 hsf for cooling, especially considering it's price.