Gaming PC

[Ereinion]

Hiya guys, i am looking to get a gaming pc built through aria after hours and hours looking through different companies. i've already configured a system via the custom pc builder:
Product Remove Price Qty
1YR ON-SITE PC WARRANTY (S2U) (SUPPORT 2 U COMP' WARRANTIES) £23.00 1
System Labour Charge £45.00 1
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Retail
2x 2.67 4Mb 1066 MHz LGA775 BX805576700
£299.95 1
Abit AB9 PRO i965 Socket 775
PCI-E / 7.1CH HD AUDIO / DUAL CH DDR2 / DUAL Gb LAN / FIRE WIRE / ATX MOTHERBOARD
£90.95 1
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 PRO
Skt 775 / Up to Pentium4 4.4Ghz
£12.95 1
Aspire Discovery Black
No psu 4 x 5.25\" / 2 x 3.5\" / 4x3.5 Standard ATX / Baby AT / Micro ATX Front Usb 2.0 and Firewire 2x
£52.00 1
Corsair Value 2GB Kit DDR2-667
PC5300 VS2GBKIT667D2
£136.95 2
120GB Seagate Barracuda SATA [8MB]
NCQ ST3120827AS
£34.50 1
320GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA 2
ST3320620AS
£57.95 1
ASUS 1608P3S 16x DVDRW/RAM Beige
Dual Layer / 8x DVD-RAM / Retail Boxed / DVD Movie Factory 4 SE / Nero v6.6.0.14d :.
£22.50 1
Sony 52x52x32 CDRW Drive BLACK £11.27 1
XFX GeForce 7950GX2 SLI 1GB DDR3
PCI-E, Dual DVI, HDTV Out, Retail Mfr# PVT71UZDL9
£296.82 1
OCZ 700W SLI Ready GameXStream PSU
OCZ700GXSSLI-UK-OCZ
£83.55 1
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (OEM)
SB0350
£36.50 1

the only thing i've left out is a monitor, network card and some more cooling devices. i want a fast wireless card, and a fast ethernet connection aswell as really good cooling cos i dont want the pc to really loud, oh and any cooling advice(whether the fan i have chosen is adequate enough?do i need more?)will the case also fit everything i want?
any advice would be helpful as most people on here seem to know a great deal more about computing that me,

[Aaron]

Looks like it will be a great system!

The motherboard you have chosen already has 2x gigabit LAN built into it, so you wont need a network card.

Something like this would work fine for a wireless card

Good airflow through the case is important for cooling - no point in having a good cpu fan if it just blows hot air onto the cpu. Im not sure what fans this case comes with - it might be worth finding that out. If it doesnt come with any, I would look at buying a few to circulate air. If you want the fans to be quiet, invest in a fan controller - something like this. That way you can get a good balance between noise and cooling. As far as cpu cooling goes, I use that same one on my e6400 which is running at 2.4ghz, and it barely breaks a sweat, so I would think it would be ok

If you dont want to go DVI, the one of these monitors would be a good bet - with the graphics card you have chosen, I think you would need 1 dvi>vga adaptor too.

[Firerat]

You are going to need a floppy drive to install your OS ( assuming its Windows )

The IDE Connection is actually a SATA/IDE Combo ( By JMicron ), you will need to install drivers from a floppy during Windows installation for it to see the CD !!
We could install one here, but should you need to reinstall you would be stuck.

Alternatively you could go for a SATA DVDRW, I think the Silicon Image chipset is supported by Windows, but don't quote me on that.

Infact looking back at your spec you have two IDE drives the AB9 will only support one IDE ( ATAPI )

[Aaron]

in the reviews of this board, someone posted this:

Just to let any other prospective buyers know, this motherboard does NOT support a PATA HDD. That means if your hard drive is connected through an IDE cable it will not work with this motherboard, you will have to buy a SATA HDD, from Aria of course .

Other than that, this is a fantastic motherboard and works perfectly with my new Intel Core 2 Duo E6700.

Thanks Aria =).

By Michael on 06/08/2006 22:52:16

can you just clarify, cos it clearly says in the description that there is 1xIDE ?

[Barley]

[quote:cfe6d098ae=\"Aaron\"]in the reviews of this board, someone posted this:

Just to let any other prospective buyers know, this motherboard does NOT support a PATA HDD. That means if your hard drive is connected through an IDE cable it will not work with this motherboard, you will have to buy a SATA HDD, from Aria of course .

Other than that, this is a fantastic motherboard and works perfectly with my new Intel Core 2 Duo E6700.

Thanks Aria =).

By Michael on 06/08/2006 22:52:16

can you just clarify, cos it clearly says in the description that there is 1xIDE ?[/quote:cfe6d098ae]

The 1xIDE is for connection of optical drives.

[Aaron]

ah yeah course, ok

[Firerat]

Yeap IDE ( ATAPI )

I should have writen Optical IDE drive, In my defense I only stuck ATAPI on as an after thought :wink:

To be honest I thought we had made it clear on the description that the IDE only supported Optical drives

btw it has 10 SATA , 9 internal and one external ( the external is a different type of connector tho )

6 Intel RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 ,
2 JMicron 0,1, 0+1, JBOD
1 Silicon Image Internal
1 Silicon Image External

[Aaron]

this isnt meant to sound sarky, but are we looking at the same descriptions?

http://www.aria.co.uk/ProductInfoComm.asp?ID=23723

?

I might just be being blind and staring straight at it tho....

[Ereinion]

Right, as i am ordereing the pc sometime today i have yto constantly change the parts just to make sure that aria have them in stock,after a couple of changes it now looks like this:
1YR ON-SITE PC WARRANTY (S2U) (SUPPORT 2 U COMP' WARRANTIES) £23.00 1
System Labour Charge £45.00 1
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Retail
2x 2.67 4Mb 1066 MHz LGA775 BX805576700
£299.95 1
Abit AB9 PRO i965 Socket 775
PCI-E / 7.1CH HD AUDIO / DUAL CH DDR2 / DUAL Gb LAN / FIRE WIRE / ATX MOTHERBOARD
£88.80 1
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 PRO
Skt 775 / Up to Pentium4 4.4Ghz
£12.95 1
Aspire Discovery Black
No psu 4 x 5.25\" / 2 x 3.5\" / 4x3.5 Standard ATX / Baby AT / Micro ATX Front Usb 2.0 and Firewire 2x
£52.00 1
Corsair Value 2GB Kit DDR2-667
PC5300 VS2GBKIT667D2
£136.95 1
120GB Seagate Barracuda SATA [8MB]
NCQ ST3120827AS
£34.50 1
320GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA 2
ST3320620AS
£57.95 1
OCZ 700W SLI Ready GameXStream PSU
OCZ700GXSSLI-UK-OCZ
£83.55 1
Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (OEM)
SB0350
£36.50 1
LiteON 16x SATA 16X DVDRW Black £19.75 1
POV 1GB GeForce 7950 GX2
with free game
£327.95 1

i've changed the dvd writer to a sata connection.Will that do?
what kind of wireless card do i need for a wireless connection?, also what kind of cooling or fans do i need to add?

[Aaron]

Ereinion, if you look in one of my posts above (the post directly after yours), there are links to alot of the products you asked for advice on.

[rraposo]

Hey, have you bought the stuff already? If not i think you should consider changing the CPU (into a E6600) you can very easily overclockit and also buy PC6400 memory instaed of those (remember to match the processor speed).
Good luck.
ricardo