Timber Floor Au

Trawled the shops... cliveeee peeeeters , hardly normals, bettaelectrical, good guys, wow, etc etc etc

FFS ! there must be an equivalent of PCWORLD in Brizzy?

Anyone know who and where, or know of someone whos shit hot at building and configuring a custom spec cpl of pc's?

2 of ours have kinda died, few yrs old now, and tax man says NOWS the time to replace lol

So any help muchlyos grassyarsos appreciated

suesk

Does Dell operate in oz?

We have always used them and find them brill.

Sorry but im still in cold UK

Suexx

Timber Floor Au

Yep Sue, but the pc we had kinda pre ordered with them, for the work we do, and future proofing came out at 4k.

As i need 2 I thought, hmm, perhaps shop around ! and save on an 8k payout

www.dell.com.au

PAP01

Mate get hold of Bobby, he just had one made ,top spec

Timber Floor Au

Cheers Paul, I will grab him later, hes probs on the PISS !!!!

moneypenny20

The small independents are good. We have a great one down here, there must be similar who'll build or rebuild up there.

PAP01

What Bobby drink , never touch his lips , just goes down the tube with out touching the sides well it did on sunday

Timber Floor Au

I live in Woop Woop

pmsl !!!!

moneypenny20

Nothing hidden around your shopping malls?

Timber Floor Au

lol thought that was rhyming slang then !!!!

No not that im aware of

Hutch

I live in Woop Woop - and I build custom PCs for people. Not Brissy way mind you, but still. Just built a Quad Core box with 4Gb RAM, striped RAID raptor drives, twin 8800GT SLI and XP 64-bit to get the most out of it ...

moneypenny20

And Arkon. There's likely someone not far away from you. How helpful am I

Timber Floor Au

KInd of what I am after, decided would like to go for the Intel 6600 or 6850 i think, quad core. Sata drives, cos i need to re install onew sata hd from old pc, which has crapped itself. Id have a go building my own, as im sure if i match all the components and ensure its all vented and powered correctly, but think id fall down on the bios , balancing the system and setting it all up.

You is very helpful !!!!!

Hutch

With today's bios's - particularly on a quad core chipset mobo - they're self-balancing. They auto-detect CPU and assess overclock margins, auto-detect RAM, latency, speed etc and set overclock margins, they have built-in overclock and load-balancing too. Really - if setting up the bio is all that's stopping you, then go for it.

Timber Floor Au

Sounds like the way to go.

How did you buy your components , did you go via a pc seller, ebay or what.. may i ask ?

Was thinking of this:

mobo - GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L
cpu - INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q6600 2.4Ghz
ram - DDR2 4GB PC6400 800MHz
hd - Samsung OR Western Digital 500GB SATAII/7200RPM/16Mb CACHE
case - THERMALTAKE
psu - unsure ( dell opt for 750w )
gpu - NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 512MB ( or 768MB if can convince missus )
cd/dvd - LIGHTSCRIBE probs SAMSUNG
Was thinking, just assemble it, and hook it as per my current system.

MAIN concern is Over heating, and have seen some real cool, cooling systems, but not sure how to determine correct ( fannage lol )

and deffo XP not VISTA , we have vista on a tosh m100 ( albeit running 512mb ram ) it suffers from snail carrying a backpack syndrome, wearing gumboots thru treacle .


Is this kinda on the right tracks?

Dont need lan or network card, as just hooking up via bb.
Possibly prefer separate sound card, but not sure on whats best.
Heard aegia gfx accelerators are ultra cool, and the THANG to have ( not for my pc, but for son's Counterstrike crap )

I WANTS:
would be some cool neons, cool case, lcd temp readout.

... hmm