You thar. My 6 year old vaio is getting, errrrr, slightly old now, so I've been told by my parents to come up with a new system which we can then build. So far I've decided on:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (£120)Motherboard: MSI P6N SLI Platinum (£91)Memory: Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC8000 1GB x 3 (£106*3)Storage: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB (£153)Graphics: PNY GeForce 8800GTS 640MB (£275)Power: Antec Neo He 500 (500W, £63)Case: Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 (£98)OS: Windows Vista Ultimate (???)TOTAL COST: £1118However, I'm also thinking of using these instead:Power: FSP Epsilon 700 (700W, £101)Storage: Hitachit CinemaStar 7K500 250GB x 2 (£46*2)So, anything else I need?Thanks,blue
<li>A sound card
<li>A non-fail OSCables, never use the old set, some motherboards come with a set but with a system like that would be worth getting some decent ones which you can hide to allow maximum air flow.
Thats another thing a decent set of good fans, not cheap £5 ones otherwise your brand new system will just burn up.Oh yes, a soundcard, and a good one seeing as I'm going to be using the computer for music production. Any suggestions?
For fans, I've had my eye on some really cheap (yet great) ones that I saw in PcPlus magazine. I seem to have mislaid it, though…Soundcard? Heres what i have,
http://www.soundblaster.com/products/product.asp?category=1&subcategory=208&product=14064I would second recommend that sound card, great company i have never had one of their sound cards fail on me. I use a pc with one of the their older sound cards, connected to a 1000w amp for DJ.
Never had a problem.E6600? Where from?
Go to this video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PfeEEako6e4Not my video but it may help.OK, I'll look at that. By the way, any places that I get parts from have to be in the UK (Or something like that), because that's where I live.
Windows XP. You NEED to ditch Vista.