Hey. I need a quality build for my new pc. My budget is $1600 or £850, no more. Here's what I need: Dual Radeon's (Crossfire) 2GB of ram Motherboard CPU Sound Card Hard Drive Optical Drive CPU Heatsink PSU Case Monitor Keyboard Mouse All must be from this supplier: www.dabs.co.uk Must be in stock aswell. Each full build will recieve 20 credits. No stealing of other builds. Quality products only. Links must be provided to each product. Kfnx?
Will be fairly difficult to get what you are asking for your budget, but good luck to all those who try. I might give it a go in a few minutes if I cant find anything else to do ^_^
I had my old build which included all that (except Crossfire, was running Dual 6600 GT's using SLI) and was alright, except most of the parts were removed off dabs for some reason :S
If you go for dual graphics then you risk compromising the quality of your other components. Without the dual graphics, the build should be achievable (and will still offer you amazing performance). After all, you can always buy a second graphics card later.
ditch crossfire, onyl cards you'de be able to afford to CF would eb x1600s and a single x1900XT outperforms two x1600s and offers about the same performance of two 6800ultras in SLi
why not go SLI, its far superior to Crossfire ill do a build for SLI and Crossfire tho are you living in europe or wat cuz newegg.com is better than other sites but ill do it as you ask *EDIT* what you asking is pretty impossible unless you specify more detail items you need what will you be using this computer for
For the people saying it's impossible to get what I want in that budget, it isn't. I took your advice and ditched Crossfire, instead got an x850. Here's the build I thought up: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Socket 775 1.86GHz Asustek P5WD2 Premium Socket 775 Intel 955X PCI-E ATX Thermaltake Soprano SECC Silver, Window Sapphire Technology Radeon X850 256MB PCI-E Creative SoundBlaster Audigy SE 7.1 OEM DabsValue 720W PSU Black 12cm Akasa S775 3.6GHz Copper Heatsink with PWM Fan Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 36GB U320 Samsung 250GB U133 7200RPM 8MB Sony 16x DVD-ROM 40x CD-ROM OEM Silver DabsValue 19" Widescreen TFT 1400x900 with DVI input and speakers Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard Logitech G5 Laser Mouse QuietPC Arctic Silver 5 premium 3.5g Logitech Extreme 3D Pro#U DabsValue Standard to SATA Power Adaptor Came out at £895.84, but I threw in some extra stuff.
get rid of the 720w psum you dont need that much and your gonna need a scsi controller for that 15k hdd, and why are you even getting that expensive drive when u dont need it and your missing ram smart one and i hope u have speakers
Your motherboard does not even support c2ds. C2D compatible (ASUS) mobos: http://uk.asus.com/products1.aspx?l1=3&l2=...share=txt/core2 Also, swap that PSU for something more reliable, you don't know what you're getting with that one.
'AI Lifestyle Series - Intel 955X chipset - Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPU - Dual-Core CPU - Native DDR2 800 Support - Universal PCI-E Slot - PEG Link - AI NOS™ - Precision Tweaker Available SKU: P5WD2 Premium P5WD2 Premium/ WiFi-TV Edition' http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=...493&modelmenu=1 GTFO
Just because it says 'dual-core cpu', doesn't mean that it supports c2ds. A pentium d for instance will run fine on that board.
http://www.bfecod.com/showthread.php?t=21231 My thread on it, even though it's on a diff. forum. Just get a better Core 2 Duo and a x1900. (or an x1950, if it even exists) EDIT: Oh yeah, select a DVD drive, Sound Card, w/e is missing... EDIT2: It's just a component list, I have absolutely no idea if they're available in Canada. :unsure:
get rid of the cheetah drive, you dont need it. if you want a high performance OS drive get a 74gb or 37.5gb raptor. get a antec truepower II 550W PSU instead, optical drive, ram, different mobo and you'll be set. you might want some more fans also where do you live and i'll set you up
f' all of that get a 250GB seagate baracuda with PRM, drive performance is comapreable to that of a raptor, and i should know, i had a wd1500 raptor w/ 16mb cache. it's also a lot cheaper than a raptor. also, 955X baords do not support c2d and that is a fact. gigashyte ds3 100<s>L</s> http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 c2d e6400 150<s>L</s> http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 PSU 500W seasonic 78<s>L</s> http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.aspx?Quick...ode=1&InMerch=1 http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews...S12_500W_7.html looks like its of high quality... must be a reason antec buys its units from seasonic and rebrands them... seagate baracuda w/ PRM 55<s>L</s> http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...ionKey=42240000 7900GTO(AKA 7900GTX with a GT's BIOS, just flash it and you have a GTX for 50% off) 180<s>L</s> http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Quick...NavigationKey=0 RAM(no clue, not familiar with british pricing) monitor - no clue case no clue I am nto entirely familiar w/ british pricing. and also a 7900GTO/GTX assrapes an x850XT, the x850 is comapreable to a 7600GT. IMO it is worth the 2L more for a good improvement in performance.
