DonNagual
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Building a PC for a friend,
What he already has
USB / firewire - CD/DVD RW
PCMCIA 802.11b/g compatible wi-fi card
Optical Mouse
What i'm after and decided on (suggest improvements if necessary within same price range):-
Geforce 6800GT 256MB - PCI-E version (not AGP 8x) (not bothered about the manufacturer)
Corsair / Mushkin Memory DDR400 - 1GB unbuffered - preferably with some form of heatsink
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Motherboard (or other nforce4 chipset based motherboard... pref. with integrated sound chip)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (939 Pin version)
Samsung SyncMaster 710T - TFT 17" Monitor (or equivalent, basically any reliable TFT monitor woth max 12ms response and preferably with DVI)
Maxtor Diamond Max plus 9 120GB HDD U-ATA 133 7200RPM (although U-ATA 150 maybe better but looking at cost effectiveness, and if poss 10,000RPM would be nice
)
What I haven't decided on yet but know rough specs...
PC Case - Preferably one with 2-3 internal Fans
PSU - 350-400Watt preferably with 2 Fans
Keyboard - PS/2 not fussed really, even a cheapo secondhand one will do.
Floppy Drive (not sure if i need one)
Optional :- DVD ROM drive - do not need a burner as i already have a USB One
Want as quiet as possible unless anyone knows a cheaper method (e.g. liquid cooling but havent looked into the costs of this yet)
What he already has
USB / firewire - CD/DVD RW
PCMCIA 802.11b/g compatible wi-fi card
Optical Mouse
What i'm after and decided on (suggest improvements if necessary within same price range):-
Geforce 6800GT 256MB - PCI-E version (not AGP 8x) (not bothered about the manufacturer)
Corsair / Mushkin Memory DDR400 - 1GB unbuffered - preferably with some form of heatsink
Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Motherboard (or other nforce4 chipset based motherboard... pref. with integrated sound chip)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (939 Pin version)
Samsung SyncMaster 710T - TFT 17" Monitor (or equivalent, basically any reliable TFT monitor woth max 12ms response and preferably with DVI)
Maxtor Diamond Max plus 9 120GB HDD U-ATA 133 7200RPM (although U-ATA 150 maybe better but looking at cost effectiveness, and if poss 10,000RPM would be nice
) What I haven't decided on yet but know rough specs...
PC Case - Preferably one with 2-3 internal Fans
PSU - 350-400Watt preferably with 2 Fans
Keyboard - PS/2 not fussed really, even a cheapo secondhand one will do.
Floppy Drive (not sure if i need one)
Optional :- DVD ROM drive - do not need a burner as i already have a USB One
Want as quiet as possible unless anyone knows a cheaper method (e.g. liquid cooling but havent looked into the costs of this yet)
