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Technical Help & Discussion => Self Building, Upgrading & General Hardware Help => Topic started by: Reno on February 24, 2008, 01:10

Title: Parts for next machine: give me a yay or nay
Post by: Reno on February 24, 2008, 01:10

Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104001

Mainboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188024

IDE controller card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816124001

DVD burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106073

Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115029

Tower
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119094

Powersupply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171018

Title: Re: Parts for next machine: give me a yay or nay
Post by: Sandra on February 24, 2008, 01:29

Nice specs but wouldnt you be better off with faster ram seeing as your mobo and cpu are 1333fsb ?

The Coolermasters are nice cases but I would rather have space for more hard drives so that I could add hard drive coolers to them, that arrangement would only enable you to have one cooler fitted to one drive if you had 2 drives in the bottom cage, no room for a 3rd drive so youd have to use the internal 3.5 above the main cage which again wouldnt have room for a hard drive cooler if you wanted 3 drives. I have 4 in mine at the moment.

The power supply is a good one but only has a 4 pin CPU power connector, some CPUs now want an 8 pin one so that it takes 4 pins off each 12v rail.
I had to get a special adaptor to convert my 4 pin to the 8 pin type so would always look for a 2 x 4 or 8 pin PSU in future.

Title: Re: Parts for next machine: give me a yay or nay
Post by: gmax on February 24, 2008, 08:23

That COOLER MASTER case has decent cooling, nothing to be gained by cluttering it with hard drive coolers!
Is there any spec that says running at a normal temperature will hurt the drive?, save your money.

Title: Re: Parts for next machine: give me a yay or nay
Post by: TR on February 24, 2008, 10:12

Gmax,

This last week I purchased a 650W coolmaster PSU and fitted it on Friday PM and took it out on Saturday AM because it was like sitting next to a vacuum cleaner  >:( I have now raised an enote with ebuyer for a return?

Hope this helps as coolmaster have a bad reputation on noisy PSU's I have just found out?


Terry  ;)

Title: Re: Parts for next machine: give me a yay or nay
Post by: gmax on February 24, 2008, 13:39

If i was to buy a new PSU i would get a "Corsair CMPSU-620HX 620W" :)