Please help me spec a new system

[McGraw]

My budget is £500.

I need:

CPU
Mobo
Ram
Graphics

Here are the stipulations.

AMD 64 Socket 939
1Gb 3200 DDR (2x512) min.
PCI-Express
Radeon X800

Can it be done?

Ideally I would like to buy from Microdirect as they are near my house and can collect in person.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Simple answer to your question "not to highest spec" depends what you want to do about dvd case hdd etc
Prices taken from overclockers.co.uk and all good componants cept mobo unknown by me



Asus EAX800XL/2DTV ATI Radeon X800 XL 256MB DDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-077-AS)1 £189.95 . AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-114-AM) £76.95 FoxConn NF4K8MA-KS nForce4 Micro ATX (Socket 939) Motherboard (MB-000-FC)1 £49.95 Corsair 1GB DDR2 Value Select PC4200 Dual Channel Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT533D2) (MY-066-CS) 1 £69.95 Subtotal£386.80 VAT£67.69 Total£454.49

[McGraw]

Cheers, think I would go for the slightly better foxcon board though.

Does it matter that there is no multiplier option in bios?

Do you think it will/could be added by a bios upgrade.

yeah theres plenty of other boards.That quote was under budget so have a look at the site and see what you can get to make it up<make it up with an MSI or an ASUS

The mobo has to have a multiplier,It will be locked unless you buy an FX chip,

[McGraw]

According to multiple reviews, there is no option to alter the multiplier.

It must just detect the multiplier on each chip.

Thats right i said its locked,on some boards however you can lower the multiplier

Why you ask ?

A good way to to gain performance is to actually lower the multiplier ,which in turn lowers cpu bus speed,then either using high speed rated ram or lowering latency of ram in bios and uping the ram voltage 1 click,you can normally raise the fsb resulting in ,1,regaining cpu fsb to normal(no stress to cpu) 2,gain bandwidth caused by higher ram speed and greater fsb

[McGraw]

Yes but with this mobo you can not lower or raise the multiplier.

There is no multiplier option in the bios.

Have you found a manual online?if so link me to it please

[AndrewJ]

www.meshcomputers.com I have one on order from them thanks to Zinglebarb and I am still awaiting my confirmation letter, however mine cost me 553quid, if you didnt spec on the cdrw drive floppydrive and lost say down to a 9800 visual card you would have a new pc on its way with the Asus Pci-E mobo.

I am sure Zinglebarb can explain it better if I cannot I have tons of filing to do from this laptop to my new pc once its here.

new quote with gigabyte board and a 3200 venice chip again from overclockers,check out microdirect they might be able to match this,ive purely used overclockers as i knew they would have everything you asked for

Asus EAX800XL/2DTV ATI Radeon X800 XL 256MB DDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-077-AS)£189.95 ..........Corsair 1GB DDR2 Value Select PC4200 Dual Channel Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT533D2) (MY-066-CS)...........£69.95. .............Gigabyte K8NF-9 nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI Express Motherboard (MB-032-GI) ......£61.95AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3200BPBOX) (CP-118-AM)1£124.95 .......Subtotal£446.80 .....VAT£78.19. .....Total£524.99

[McGraw]

No manual, just read a few reviews.

Thanks very much for your spec out, that looks perfect.

[jtwn]

You've added DDR2 ram there, there are no amd ddr2 boards - that ram will NOT work with that board. Just get dual kit of pc3200, there is no need to go higher unless you want to overclock.

quite right i ment Corsair 1GB DDR Value Select PC3200 CAS3.0 Kit (2x512MB) (VS1GBKIT400C3) (MY-061-CS) 1£57.95£57.95Subtotal£57.95VAT£10.15Total£68.10