help me build my gaming rig

[MonkeySoldier]

From what company is that PSU? It's important to have a stable PSU, and I can't find much info about it. Of course you got a budget, which I fully understand, but seeing you want two GTX 260's in SLI, I would recommend to try to find some more info about that PSU.

[Tofurkeymeister]

There is no such thing as a Phenom II 920 Black edition, I think its a typo. There is only a Phenom II 940 Black edition, and a Phenom II 920 (Non Black Edition).

[Robbi]

So your getting all this for under £500?

Have you got prices with this also, build looks good but prices will help others if they where looking at buying, and we may be able to offer you cheaper alternatives etc....

[lmisbah1234]

once again thanks for replying guys well appreciated, it was no typo it is in fact a 920 black edition just check the website micro direct it is their once again 920 phenom II black edition.

i was looking for the brand of the psu but i couldnt find one but others i spoke to say that dabs.com is very reputable, that is where i have sourced the psu

the final price for all of these items is as follows:-

Coolermaster case CM-690 black tower ATX nVidia SLi approved £57.50

Viewsonic 19" gaming monitor VX1940 widescreen 2ms DVI 16:10 £70.99

AMD CPU AM2+ Phenom II x4 920 Black Edition
Quad Core Retail Box inc Fan(S022372) £140.99

Asus motherboard M3N72-D(S02194 £60.86

Kingston memory 4GB Kit (2x2GB) HyperX 800MHz
DDR2 CL5 (5-5-5-15) DIMM (Kit of 2) RAM(MEMKINHX4GB800) £39.41

Western Digital 160GB hard disk drive
Caviar SATA II 300 7200rpm 8Mb (JS)
oem(HAR160WESSA272) £28.21

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 896MB DDR3 PCI-E £126.49

750W 80+ Dual 12v V2.2 HE PSU £43.29
i couldnt find wich mnfcr this psu was from but found a code PSUPC750AUBA

GRAND TOTAL £567.74

i know my last ultimate estimate budget was £550 but i had to go over if i wanted a half decent system, first purchases will be all of these and then next month i will get the second gpu, updated keyboard & mouse etc all the little things but in a weeks time friday to be exact i will order all these as stated above, thanks for replying guys any other tips help would be good. ps the psu is from dabs.com everything else is from microdirect.

[lmisbah1234]

ive just found info on the psu it is by powercool

Powercool PSUPC750AUBA Extreme 750W 80+ Dual 12v V2.2 High Efficiency PSU - Reta Digitalpromo.co.uk

seems like a good psu so i will give it a try

[Robbi]

Cheap PSU's will cause you no end of trouble, also what about an OS? or are you sorted for that?

Also is that MB SLI compliant, ie has it 2 16x PCIe slots? I'd say if you can find the money get a better PSU, as you will definately fiind that it will fail soon, especially powering 2 260's

[lmisbah1234]

Originally Posted by [R-TEC]Robbi187

Cheap PSU's will cause you no end of trouble, also what about an OS? or are you sorted for that?

Also is that MB SLI compliant, ie has it 2 16x PCIe slots? I'd say if you can find the money get a better PSU, as you will definately fiind that it will fail soon, especially powering 2 260's

well i will look for an alternative psu then as you all are not approving of the one i have chosen, yes the mobo is sli complient 2x pci-e 2.0, that is one of the maing reasons i chose it other than the sweet price lol as for the os im going to stick with xp for the moment and as soon as windows 7 is officolly released will upgrade, im not really happy with vista my brother has it and it is how u say umm a BIG POO lol

[Tofurkeymeister]

Yes... I understand micro direct says its a black edition, but I regret to inform you that it is indeed not: AMD Phenom II 920 Black edition?

It happened that micro direct screwed up pretty badly...

However, unless you plan to overclock there is no benefit in getting a black edition processor.

[lmisbah1234]

Originally Posted by Tofurkeymeister

Yes... I understand micro direct says its a black edition, but I regret to inform you that it is indeed not: AMD Phenom II 920 Black edition?

It happened that micro direct screwed up pretty badly...

However, unless you plan to overclock there is no benefit in getting a black edition processor.

hmm thats sad lol well i will phone micro direct just before i place the order for them to clarify it and also to get them to change it if it is true, if i opt to go for the 940 black then i will have to change most of my items as the 940 is am3 socket and not am2 like my mobo , if this is all the case then should i just go for the standard 920 phenom II as this is am2 socket?

[Tofurkeymeister]

Originally Posted by lmisbah1234

hmm thats sad lol well i will phone micro direct just before i place the order for them to clarify it and also to get them to change it if it is true, if i opt to go for the 940 black then i will have to change most of my items as the 940 is am3 socket and not am2 like my mobo , if this is all the case then should i just go for the standard 920 phenom II as this is am2 socket?

Get the 940, it is AM2, not AM3.

In addition, AM3 processors do work in AM2 motherboards (Backwards compatibility FTW! :P). However, AM2 CPU's do NOT work in AM3 motherboards.

AM2(+)
-Phenom II 940
-Phenom II 920

AM3
-Phenom II 955
-Phenom II 945
-Phenom II 720

P.S. Go with the 940 IMO, it seems to be cheaper, and it is slightly faster and better for overclocking (I own one).

P.P.S. Everything else seems fine to me .