Some questions re the suggested systems

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Hi guys
This will be another one of those spec-me threads, I apologise in advance.

I was looking at the suggested builds in the sticky and have some questions re modifying them. I guess my aim is to keep the budget in the £600 ballpark, I want 4 cores so I have decided to go with a variation on the £700 AMD build.

Basically I will drop the 5850 to a 5750 to achieve my target budget. I also have a couple of things I think I can retrieve from my old pc. These are
1) a Lian-Li PC7+ case
2) a Tagan 530w power supply which is about 4 years old.

Do you guys think these old components will be ok to use so I can save a bit more cash? I am most worried about the power supply. Do these things have a limited lifespan? It has been powering an e6600 and a 2900xt fine up until today when the card decided to die :rolleyes:. Of course I worry that the power supply had a hand in the card's death :(.

One more question. If I wanted to add more RAM into the suggested build is that an easy thing to do? I am a lot behind the times and dont really know what triple channel means.

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The case would be fine to reuse hte psu however I'm not too sure about that is the sort of component I would replace for peace of mind.

As far as triple channel memory this increases bandwidth between the ram cpu giving a slight performance boost, however the motherboard in the suggested £700 AMD build doesnt offer support for triple channel memory as it only has 4 Ram slots so you would be looking at 2 pairs of 2 sticks running in dual channel mode.
 
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The case would be fine to reuse hte psu however I'm not too sure about that is the sort of component I would replace for peace of mind.

As far as triple channel memory this increases bandwidth between the ram cpu giving a slight performance boost, however the motherboard in the suggested £700 AMD build doesnt offer support for triple channel memory as it only has 4 Ram slots so you would be looking at 2 pairs of 2 sticks running in dual channel mode.

I am leaning towards replacing the PSU, as you say for peace of mind.

Will putting 4 sticks of RAM in give any disadvantage? I remember a few years ago that if you put in 4 sticks on some chipsets that it would slow down all the timings.

Are you able to salvage an optical drive and or hdd from your old rig to save a few more pennies?
The optical is an IDE one I think :p. The hard drive is too small and slow to bother with I think.
 
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OK I am about to go with this, the only thing I am not sure about is the gcard. Is a 5770 worth it over the 5750? Anybody?
 

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That spec looks fine to me, but do you need an operating system as well in that budget?
And from benchmarks I've seen I would definitely say the 5770 is worth the extra.

If you've got any means of testing your current PSU it could be worthwhile, that would save you an extra £60 :)
 
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That spec looks fine to me, but do you need an operating system as well in that budget?
And from benchmarks I've seen I would definitely say the 5770 is worth the extra.

If you've got any means of testing your current PSU it could be worthwhile, that would save you an extra £60 :)

Thanks for the fast reply, seeing as another person thought it was ok I have ordered now. I can get windows el cheapo through a discount so that wasnt included :).
 
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