advice for the rogue

Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:50 pm

LOL! I was £400 and 3 months over budget when i did my last build, so no need to panic rogue.

Enermax, Coolermaster and Antec are very good makes, along side those scunny named.

I've got an Enermax Galaxy 850W- it was expensive, but its the nutz!

Dont worry about asking too many questions rouge- the more you ask the more your gonna know Wink

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:45 am

i'm bidding on a case eminem recomended its the twin engine beast http://www.lambda-tek.com/componentshop/index.pl?origin=gbase8.2&prodID=B83607 read some reviews and sounds good. however, it doesn,t have external mic and earphone plugs. how will i get around that???? i've placed an order for a zotac 8800gt here http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?ZOT-88GT5 it said they had one due in tomorrow so grabbed it. but then when i'd completed order it said estimated del tues 27th cos out of stock! DOH!! they're like rocking horse shite!

Joined: Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 768

Wouldnt the sound/mic jacks be on the souncard/mobo you choose? I thought they were only on the case itself for front or side mounted access?

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:21 am

Installing the front panel 'mic' and 'line out' onto the motherboard is more hastle than its really worth when the back panel does the job- unless you've bought a really cheapy pair of speakers/headset with a small cord LOL!

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:55 am

me again. everythings arrived except graphics card. didn't realise untill today that cpu is an oem product so didn't come with fan. can anyone recommend a good CHEAP socket 775 cpu cooler for a q6600? or has anyone got one they wanna sell??? cheers....again! Very Happy

Joined: Oct 11, 2006 Posts: 768

PC format just recently reccomended the Arctic Cooling, Freezer 7 Pro. Costs £12 so definately cheap but it ran a Core 2 Quad chip at 50 degrees under load so pretty effective cooling too. Its not the quitest fan around but for performance they rated it better than coolers costing 3x as much.

Joined: Nov 12, 2007 Posts: 349

Creative X-Fi Fatality and gamer cards come with a front fascia with controls and outputs and this goes in 5" front bay so that could solve the problem - for the quality those puppies are cheap as chippers now.

I have one rigged with a pair of Sennhiesers and I can hear the mosquitoes biting me on COD4!