Upgrade Spec

[Muncher]

I've just ordered the following from Komplett to upgrade my PC. Will be a general workhorse for Vista maybe the occassional game but I'm not paying over the odds for that ability. Will my existing PSU from my old P4 setup be able to power that?

312032 Upgrade Kit Intel Core 2 Duo E6600,
Mainboard, 2048MB, PCI-Express

1 pcs estimated shipping on 2007-05-16

Confirmed 1.00 265.01 265.01
325580 NEC DVD±RW burner AD-7173 IDE Black OEM,
Dual, LabelFlash, Multirecorder(Ram)

1 pcs estimated shipping on 2007-05-16

Confirmed 1.00 21.50 21.50
325793 Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 400GB SATA2
16MB 7200RPM

2 pcs estimated shipping on 2007-05-16

Confirmed 2.00 59.50 119.00
324730 Gainward GeForce 7600GS 512MB DDR2,
PCI-Express, "BP7600GS-512-GS-TV-DD"

1 pcs estimated shipping on 2007-05-16

Confirmed 1.00 81.00 81.00

[350wedge]

What rating is your current power supply, how many Watts?

[ThePassenger]

Ok. If it's a DECENT 350w (Zalman, Ennermax and such) you might get away with it. If not I'd invest in a PSU that is at least 500w from the above companies.

If it IS a decent PSU already does it have SATA connectors for the drives or have you molex-sata convertors?

[Muncher]

ThePassenger said:

Ok. If it's a DECENT 350w (Zalman, Ennermax and such) you might get away with it. If not I'd invest in a PSU that is at least 500w from the above companies.

If it IS a decent PSU already does it have SATA connectors for the drives or have you molex-sata convertors?

Yeah it's a decent one, Molex connectors only. Will the new botherboard or drives come with Molex to SATA adapters?

[350wedge]

I'd say you may be best off getting a new PSU with at least one Sata power connector, uprate at the same time to 500W in case you want to upgrade further in the future.

Your new graphics card is more powerful than the one i've just bought, and on the box of mine it recommends a PSU of at least 350W. (Sapphire X1650 Pro)

Edited by 350wedge on Thursday 17th May 17:43

[GregE240]

You could do better with the GPU, Paul.

7600 is old now. For not much more, you could have a 7950, which will kick sand in the face of a 7600. However, the drivers for them are shit - at present. This is being addressed.

Or, you could buy a proper card, with an ATI chipset

[Muncher]

GregE240 said:

You could do better with the GPU, Paul.

7600 is old now. For not much more, you could have a 7950, which will kick sand in the face of a 7600. However, the drivers for them are shit - at present. This is being addressed.

Or, you could buy a proper card, with an ATI chipset

Any suggestions Greg, I guess it isn't too late to change it! I want something with passive cooling preferably.

[GregE240]

Well, take a look at www.gpureview.com, and then cross reference it with komplett or ebuyer.

I'm getting Tom an X1950PRO 512MB this summer. Might have to upgrade his PSU though...

ETA: The X1950 above is a Sapphire card, AGP...

Edited by GregE240 on Friday 18th May 11:10

[ultra violent]

Just stuck in a x1950 pro (AGP) in my old PC and had to upgrade PSU. Whet for £60 corsair 520W. Nice modular design wrt cables/leads etc.

[GregE240]

whats your thoughts on the X1950 so far, UV?

Edited by GregE240 on Friday 18th May 12:45

[ultra violent]

It runs hot, idle 45deg... but very good otherwise. My old pc is a 2GB P4 3.2Ghz, with a NV 5950 Ultra it would clock 6.5k in 3dmark03. With the new card it does approx 15k. I've just picked up a P4 3.4Ghz 2MB Extreme cpu, the combination of which should keep the old girl alive for at least another year.

[Muncher]

OK my system is here and running but I'm thinking of returning the 7600GS for a better card of similar price which is also passive/silent. Is it worth the hassle of returning to swap for a x1950?

[ThePassenger]

Muncher said:

OK my system is here and running but I'm thinking of returning the 7600GS for a better card of similar price which is also passive/silent. Is it worth the hassle of returning to swap for a x1950?

IMHO not worth it. See if you can get a passive nvidia card. Sorry to sound utterly biased but i've had a lot of ATi based systems in the past and their drivers are the shonkiest piece of st going IMHO.

[Muncher]

Right, the hard drives are being swapped as they are far, far too noisey so the system will be in bits for a while. That gives me the chance to swap the graphics card if I want to...

How much noise do the x1950Pro cards generate? Any bargain deals on them at the moment?