Hi All

[james4t]

Hi everyone, I'm new to custom PC building let alone overclocking so I appreciate any advice.

A few years ago I bought what I thought was a pretty decent laptop (HP zd3733ea) but after only 14 months it broke. I believe the graphics card went belly up (due to overly demanding gaming) and as it wasn't cost effective to repair I was forced to accept my loss.

In the last couple of months I've been looking into building a PC as it offers much more security (in terms of part replacement and upgradability) and I wanted to learn more about the technical side of computing.

During my 'research' I came across an article in Custom PC by a guy called Tom Logan. In it he thanks this site, and in particular, James Napier for helping him along the custom PC path. I hope I can gain the same experience as Tom as I would like to reach the stage of owning a personally built PC.

I am looking for suggestions for parts to build a basic/cheap gaming PC that I can try some experimental overclocking with. Tom stated that an Asus P5K Premium motherboard and an Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 with G0 stepping are a good start. I want one fairly decent graphics card (I'm not ready for Crossfire or SLI yet) and around 100GB HD.

Can anyone direct me to a thread on this forum where I might be able to get some advice on this?

 

[gotmaxpower]

About the CPU, I'd opt for one of the lower end 45nm's such as the E7200. I've recently priced up a family computer (which I should be building for my parents/sister in about a months time) with brilliant specs (E7200, 2GB DDR2-800 etc.), a keyboard, mouse and a nice flashy mATX case for £266. Its amazing what you can do with a quick search around the internet.

Good luck, and welcome to the forums.

 

[james4t]

Thanks for the reply, gotmaxpower.

I've been looking round the site for a while and have found some threads similar to mine, albeit in the motherboard section (there's no section for complete setups).

I believe I do want to stay with the Dual Core rather than the Quad as apparently most games don't really utilise the quad cores. Also I want to get an ASUS mobo as it seems they have lots of easy features for newbies such as myself (level up etc...). I probably want to stay with DDR2 technology as it's cheaper and as I only want one graphics card I don't think I need to worry about 2x16 pci support.

 

[Ham]

Welcome to the forums mate.

Specing up parts is easy. Pop a thread in the appropriate section (use the Mainboard/CPU or the other platforms section) and you'll get a load of answers in no time. :wavey:

 

[Luigi]

Welcome to the forum, feel free to ask any questions

 

[Zoot]

Welcome to the forum james.

 

[FarFarAway]

welcome matey and ask away :wavey:

 

[james4t]

:wavey:

Thanks for all the welcoming comments.

 

[TeHPwNMaCHiNE]

yo

GL mate