Si's New Budget System

azcn2503 · Fri Aug 22, 2008 8:19 am

Hey Met did you know that I have a new PC too?

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Si · Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:57 am

For Met, cos he wants to know about tehbudgetpc:

http://www.spcook.co.uk/blog/2008/08/22/my-computers-photobuild wrote:

Right, finally got round to building my computer, and while my Team Fortress 2 maps directory copies from one system to this new one, I can finally put the pictures of my computer being built.

Firstly, the parts that I ordered:

Corsair Memory 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL5 Corsair Memory 2x1GB 240-Pin DIMM XMS2-6400 CL5 - £29.84
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz - £75.18
Gigabyte S775 Intel P31 DDR2 ATX Audio Lan Gigabyte S775 Intel P31 DDR2 ATX Audio Lan - £41.46
Gigabyte Radeon 4850 512MB PCIE 2xDVI 625MHz/1.9GHz - £115.13
Grand Total: £261.61

Now, firstly my parts had arrived in a box that surely was too big for what it needed?!

And the parts inside the box:

The CPU:

45nm, "You are so small, it's funny to me!" I believe would be the heavys reaction.

Surely such a big box for this small processor?

Ooh it spins... hopefully enough to cool it down so I don't melt my new processor.

The Motherboard:

Well, the processor fits on there, thats about as much as I know lol

Graphics Card:

Shiny box... let's hope the graphics are as shiny

And the shiny graphics card, not as shiny as it's box, but defnetly better than the nVIDIA 5200 that it replaces.

RAM:

2GB should be enough to let me actually use this thing lol

Ooh, maps copied

I'm gonna now test this system and put more pics later

Skillers · Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:02 pm

You just copied that from your blog xP

SM4.1? Didn't know that existed. Ah well, I'll have it aswell soon.

Azraeleus · Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:50 pm

Vista or XP? if Vista 2GB of ram might be pushing it a bit o.O

As I beleive aaron learned on his last system.

azcn2503 · Fri Aug 22, 2008 2:01 pm

2GB was OK, but when I went to 4GB it regularly used more than 2GB so it obviously needed it. That was mainly when playing Crysis or insane multitasking though.

azcn2503 · Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:28 pm

Hello Si, so what's your 3DMark06 score then?

I've finally managed to get 3DMark06 working on Windows Vista and I just received my score of 20,009. Check it out! http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7929295

Si · Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:48 pm

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7899817

Only 9,773 but for the price it owns

Skillers · Sun Aug 24, 2008 2:07 pm

Half the score for 1/8th price, not bad.

azcn2503 · Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:08 pm

I'm not sure about that 1/8th the price part. How much was the entire system including hard drives, power supply, case, optical drives etc. ?

Also, the systems were built with different objectives. Si's PC is built to be a solid contender for all of the latest games, whereas mine is built to be rediculously fast and overkill.

Skillers · Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:10 pm

Heh, true, but you could say 1/4 price then as they would only take it up to £500.

I know they're different objective, but I was just saying.

Shouldn't yours score significantly more, though, being it's 4 4870s vs 1 4850, effectively?

azcn2503 · Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:12 pm

Synthetic benchmarks continue their trend of representing absolutely nothing in terms of real world performance, it seems.

Skillers · Sun Aug 24, 2008 5:14 pm

That and 3Dmark06 is probably not optimised for Quad Core and multi card setups.

Maybe try Vantage?

Si · Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:47 am

Yeah, yeah I'll try vantage later

Besides Skillers, as you probabily could tell from the blog quote, I have your final photos

http://www.spcook.co.uk/blog/2008/08/28/finished-computer-photos/ wrote:

I think its time to actually upload the photos of my finished computer.

Firstly heres the motherboard in my cleaned case with the CPU and cleaner attached.

Here is the finished result:

Not exactly the tidiest result, but at least its all there. Also you might see my USB bluetooth adapter thats now stuck inside attached to my PCI USB2 card. I probabily don't need it, but the more USB ports the merrier.

Oh but wait, it gets worse, 350W generic POS power supply, that won't power that. Oops noob mistake, should have checked that. Quick rush for a new 600W modular power supply, fitted it in and heres the actual final result:

I think that result is tidier. Air can actually flow, and it runs quite well.
Hope those pics are good enough for you Skillers

Lord Metritutus · Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:50 am

Mmmmmm, pics of power. :`P

azcn2503 · Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:53 am

Looks cute

Skillers · Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:09 am

Heh, I shall ask my blog question again here ^^

What PSU?

Si · Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:13 am

Aah yes, I knew I was forgetting something...

Jeantech 600W *ARCTIC* ATX POWER SUPPLY UNIT

azcn2503 · Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:14 am

I like the *ARCTIC* bit.

Skillers · Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:18 am

Heh, it provides freezing cold watts of power!

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