jacksonryan

just wondering if these will be ok together???

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Intel-775-Moth...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/512MB-nVidia-8...QQcmdZViewItem

http://www.eclipsecomputers.com/prod...=CAR-XNINJA-BK

just needed to know kinda quick aswas gonna purchase today!!

thanks in advance

ste

ricer333

The biggest factor in whether parts will work togehter is the MotherBoard.

Some MotherBoards( MoBo's for short ) will support types of RAM and some varying amounts of it. MoBo's only support 1 type of chipset (that is the number - 775 - on the Intel Dual Core).

You see the MoBo will go into the case (and not all cases are eqaul). There are several 'form factors'. ATX (which is the case you have) is one of the most popular. But there are others out there.

So to be short, we cannot tell given the 3 parts you have.

You must find a MoBo that is ATX form factor, supports socket 775, and has a PCI-Express slot of 16x.

If you find one of those then yes all these parts will go together just fine. TigerDirect (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...973&CatId=1533) is a great source for part. NOTE: The MoBo I just linked to does not support Dual Channel Memory (that is something you may or may not want tho).

Good luck!

~Ricer333

ricer333

Geeze, I'm sorry. I didn't see that the first link linked to a mobo and such.

I believe everything will work together just fine.

The VidCard should fit into the PCI-X 16x slot, the case should hold the MoBo just fine and the chipset looks good for that MoBo.

If you do notice intermitant power failures (restarts) then the PSU may not be enough. Try it first as that setup and if it does not work upgrade your PSU.

There is a PSU calculator (given VidCard, CPU, and extras) it will give you a good match somewhere on this formum.


Again, sorry for not looking at your first post more in detail.

jacksonryan

lol thats ok hanks for the reply. what can i expect from the set up ive bought there? i mean performance ect. bearing in mind i will be using it just for generall use internet dvd downloading and some gaming ect??

thanks

ricer333

Well I'll say this, it all depends on how much gaming you want to do.

The internet downloading will be regulated more by your ISP (internet service provider) than you hardware. Unless you have some massive backbone connection (the average in the US is 7Mbps - Mega bits / second) than the Hardware is not going to be maxed out.

As for the gaming, the weak point in any system is still the CPU (if you can believe that). Take any good graphics game now and pull up your TaskManager and see the CPU (or CPU's) just max right out. Games are trying to bypass the CPU and use the GPU (your video card) by adding more memory and such, but the CPU is still the bottleneck.

That being said, I believe your system will be good to go for awhile. I'm not sure if you are getting 1 stick of 1Gig memory or 2 sticks of 512MB (totaling 1 Gig) but your system can go up to 4 Gigs (2x 2Gigs). I would consider upgrading your memory if you want to do anything. Memory right now is at the cheapest it's been in awhile.

And unfortunatly from my experience, memory does not follow the typical "it'll get cheaper in a few years" mindset that the rest of the HW does. Memory will start out high when it's new, come down a bit when the market gets saturated, but then with older systems (b/c peope fail to upgrade when the market is saturated) it starts to climb again when people what to upgrade their systems... cheaply (or so they think). This was the case with my recent upgrade.

Well enough rambling.. hope this helps!

ricer333

Looks like you have 1 stick of 667 MHz DDR memory. I would match this but I would probably wait until the parts came in. When dealing with memory you typcially want to stick the same manufacturer together. So if this is Crucial or Kingston it'll say somewhere. If it comes and it doesn't seem to have a name on it (then it's probably cheap ram). If this is the case I would just consider going with a name brand (check TigerDirect.com) and getting 2 Gigs of good stuff. Trust me, memory issues can be the worst!!!

jacksonryan

thank you ricer333 for your time and info. fingers crossed everything should be ok. will update a post when i get everything up and running( hopefuly)

regards

stephen