Heya i dont really know tht much about building pcs, but we did a bit of this at college I wanna know if this components are compatible?? Casecom LG-7760 Black/Silver Trim Mid-Tower Gaming Case - With 350W PSU MSI K9VGM-V K8M890 Socket AM2 onboard VGA 8 channel audio mATX Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (2.4GHz) Socket 939 1MB L2 Cache OEM Processor OCZ 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 PLATINUM XTC with LIFETIME WARRANTY Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB SATAII 8MB Cache - OEM Thanks any help would be great Jackie xx
it will work but that motherboard only has SATA1 hard drive interfaces, like i said it will work, but, only at SATA1 (1.5Gb/s burst rate, not sustained) speed as SATA2 interfaces are integrated in to most motherboards and you would get far more performance if you added a 16X PCIe graphics card instead of using the (crappy) onboard graphics card and PSUs that come free with cases are usually also crap, i would suggest purchasing a separate PSU personally i have an Antec TP Trio 550W and my spec is much lower than the one you are proposing to build, basically buy the best PSU you can afford, because, you can upgrade your system in the future BTW: Wattage that a PSU says it can output has nothing to do with how much a PSU actually outputs
No unfortunately it is not. You have a socket AM2 mobo and a socket 939 processor. If you want something that is not that great of a performer like that 4k+, I can find you something. Newegg.com - AMD Athlon 64 LE-1620 2.4GHz 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 45W Single-Core Processor - Retail There you go. Edit: HAHA Caught u donkey Although everything donkey is saying is correct. The SATA 2 would be an upgrade, but SATA 1 should be fine with the type of system you are building. You didn't choose anything that gives great performance so I'm guessing this isn't for gaming, just workstation type stuff.
ok, ok,i hold my hands up, so, my b4lls are clear for you to knee them BTW: LOL Edit: just out of curiosity jackie11, what's your budget
Say about £250 I want to do a bit of gaming, nothing serious thou i basically want a media centre Jackie xx
well, personally i would go the easy way & spend about £200 on a crap PC from a computer shop and then upgrade the necessary parts yourself, like the PSU and case switch and make sure it has a separate gfx card, as many mobo's with integrated gfx do not have a separate gfx slot, however, some do, just be very careful, as the salesman will tell you a system does not have integrated gfx when it does
I wouldn't recommend a crap system. The reason is that crap systems come with crap motherboards so, considering that the mobo is the component that connects your system together, you cannot make a decent machine on a crap motherboard. That said, with your original components, here are my suggestions: If you want to game get a better motherboard. As donkey said, get a better PSU. Get cheaper RAM, the platinum line from OCZ is great, but not needed in that system.
Get an intel processor and board, spend the same amount of money and mabye overclock on an intel cpu, the performance will be allot better. If he's not a gamer then intergrated graphics will save him money, power supply wattage, and won't need a case very good at cooling. To be fair, you can't really play games with a $500 pc Here's what you Should get, if you want the most performance/$ possible Casecom LG-7760 Black/Silver Trim Mid-Tower Gaming Case Antec Basiq 350W ATX12V v2.01 Computer Power Supply, Supports SATA, Model: BP350 Gigabyte GA-945GCM-S2C LGA775 mATX Motherboard, ZOGIS GeForce 8600 GT 512MB PCI-E Video Card ZO86GT-E, SLI Ready, DirectX 10, HDTV, w/ DVI & CRT Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 320GB 3.5in SATA Hard Drive Corsair XMS2 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 Dual Channel Memory, DDR2 800 (yes it will work on the board) Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe LGA775 Dual-Core CPU BX80557E6550, 2.33GHz, 1333FSB, 4MB L2 Cache, 65nm or E6750 if you can afford it That should be around your budget
i anit a guy lol, no i dont want as much poformance as possible, i wanna be able to play tomb raider/san andreas/music without it slowing Jackie xx
You just want a budget build. That's all you'll need. Personally, I'd get a cheap mobo with a p35 chipset. An E2200 Proc (overclock to 2.8 GHz if you are comfortable doing that.) And the rest of your hardware was fine. Just grab a cheap pci card (x1650ish) and you'll be fine. Nice and cheap and able to play your games.
just remove the computers lid and locate a PCI slot it looks like this: but obviously a bit bigger push the card into the slot firmly & straight, when all the contacts at the bottom of the card are inside the slot & the metal bar at the back of the PC is touching the PC case then simply secure the card in place with the screw on top of the card backplate & remove any existing grx cards replace the lid & don't forget to connect you monitor to the new gfx card and just boot up normaly & Windoze will automatically detect the new grx card, just go through the wizard that comes up automatically to configure it congrats, you just correctly installed a gfx card :beer: BTW don't worry, you can't put them in the wrong way around
ok, there is a few things to check if it has integrated / onboard gfx doublecheck & make sure it's disabled in the BIOS try a different "known working" monitor, or, make sure your monitor is working (by testing it on another system try another "known working" power cable for your monitor (if it's not connected to your PSU) try the gfx card in another system just look at it logically BTW: it may just be a blown fuse, try the above combinations to find out what works finally does the power light on the monitor change colour, because, if it does, there's no point trying different power cables
