i am building my first comp

[TurdDrive]

Originally Posted by TurdDrive

here is the pic?

third time lucky

Does anybody know the amount of USB ports this has?

Additional Comment:

im going to start looking for parts now

(ive been on holidays)

also what are the two most effective parts at speeding up a game

eg. GPU, Ram etc?

[FX5200]

Originally Posted by TurdDrive

Does anybody know the amount of USB ports this has?

According to here it can have up to 12 USB ports.

Max. 12 USB2.0/1.1 ports(6 ports at mid-board, 6 ports at back panel)

[TurdDrive]

can have uup to

so i have to buy them separately?

[FX5200]

Originally Posted by TurdDrive

can have uup to

so i have to buy them separately?

It has 6 USB ports on the back, ready to use, and probably 3 USB headers on the board itself, into which you can plug a USB header adapter like THIS.

Unless you are going to be using more than 6 USB ports, I wouldn't worry about it much. Also, most cases usually have a built-in socket that connects to the header on the board, and gives you 2 or 4 USB ports on the front of the case.

[TurdDrive]

i see i think ill only be using 5 at any given time

[Vicious-Peanut]

Did you swap out the Q6600 for the Q9550? It is faster stock, has more cache, and can be overclocked higher and cost like $20 US more.

[TurdDrive]

haven't bought anything yet going to start on weekend

i will use the Q9550 but what are the downsides.

[Vicious-Peanut]

Originally Posted by TurdDrive

haven't bought anything yet going to start on weekend

i will use the Q9550 but what are the downsides.

It will probably cost 10 pounds more. Thats the only downside.

[TurdDrive]

cool the total comes to 760 which means 40 pounds to spend :P

which should i improve
oh and what does Hyperthreading: mean?

[Vicious-Peanut]

Is your list still the same as the one on page three? If so I would go with either the ATI 4890 or the Nvidia GTX275. Other than that it looks good.

[FX5200]

Originally Posted by TurdDrive

oh and what does Hyperthreading: mean?

Hyper-threading is Intel's term for its simultaneous multithreading implementation in their Pentium 4, Atom, and Core i7 CPUs. Hyper-threading (officially termed Hyper-Threading Technology or HTT) is an Intel-proprietary technology used to improve parallelization of computations (doing multiple tasks at once) performed on PC microprocessors. A processor with hyper-threading enabled is treated by the operating system as two processors instead of one. This means that only one processor is physically present but the operating system sees two virtual processors, and shares the workload between them.

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

[mrinehart93]

To answer the question about what makes gaming better, it is mainly a mix of the GPU and CPU. RAM does play a part, but does little to nothing to improve performance. If you have 4GB of RAM, then you will be more than fine for gaming. The Q9550 will be a beast for gaming, especially if you decide to overclock it to 3.5ish, which should be easy for that CPU. The GPU of course makes a large difference in gaming performance. Like Peanut said above, the ATi 4890 or nVidia GTX275 will be fine as long as you don't want to go crazy and demand that you play Crysis at all max settings with good FPS.

As for the heatsink, I would recommend a Xigmatek HDT-S1283, Sunbeam Core Contact Freezer, or a Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 (120mm fan). The Xigmatek and the Sunbeam are both cheaper than the TRUE, but perform nearly the same as the TRUE (~1c difference).

For the HDD, sure if you want get the Samsung. I think the only reason people have been telling you to veer away from Samsung is that because Western Digital and Seagate focus mainly just on manufacturing HDD's, so the reliability and features that the Samsung has may be less than a WD or Seagate drive. And you could always just get a 7200RPM 32MB cache WD or Seagate drive... that way you wouldn't lose performance.

[dlank1]

if i was you mate ide go with AMD and check out www.scan.co.uk P2's are cheap and so are there 4870's 1gb and 260's 55nm,if you want ile throw a couple of links down

[TurdDrive]

ok this is the final draw i appreciate all the help you guys have given me and now i would like you all to just do one more thing.

http://orders.ebuyer.com/customer/sh...c2hvd2NhcnQ%3D

will this setup work?

and are there any cheaper site rather than ebeyer.

thanks a lot.

[TurdDrive]

ok so i noticed that there whasno real link there so

here

i did some of the list myself so im not sure it will work or not.

i also have some more money to spend up to
£840