thomasdb11

This is my entry Screenshot from Defcon a great game that I would recommend to everyone!

This is looking awesome, keep up the good work!

Very nice, just one question what happened to the front of your optical drive? Also I was thinking of getting a sound card but don't have that much money, how is the DGX? Always wanted a orange and black themed build, great job!

I would go with a new SSD, it will make everything noticeably faster

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Alright will get a X4 then. Thanks for everybody's help!

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Interesting.... Would have gotten an i3 if I had known but didn't, so can't really migrate to intel platform cheaply. But thanks for the tip!

Yeah would love to but the problem is that it isn't compatible with my mobo, which was recently pointed out. So I would need to get a new mobo instead of a new SSD which I'm not sure is the best thing to do at the moment. Maybe I should just get an SSD right now and when I have a bigger budget I should upgrade the CPU and the mobo, but I don't really want to do that. I was intending on upgrading the CPU and get an SSD now, and in six months upgrade the case and the PSU to a modular one, and maybe even a new GPU. And with what I use my PC for I don't need a really powerful CPU, just one that is better that the one I have at the moment (Phenom II X3 710) so either the X4 or X6 which are both AM3 sockets meaning that I don't need to upgrade the mobo just yet.

LOL, obviously mate! :P All the FX CPUs are AM3+ sockets then? I was recommended the X4 965 by several people, but X6 does have more cores. I don't really want to OC with the air cooler I have at the moment so will either need to upgrade by cooler and get the X6 or just go with the X4. If I don't end up OCing would it be better to just get the X4? Thanks!

Hi guys, I have decided to upgrade my CPU and get an SSD (link to current PC: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/19641-cheap-first-build/ ). I currently have a AMD Phenom II X3 710 Processor and it's getting rather slow and old. I have a limited budget for the CPU (under 150€ and currently live in France where PC components aren't that cheap). I was also wondering if anybody knows for sure that a AM3+ CPU isn't compatible with a AM3 motherboard (my current mobo being an Asus M4N75TD)? In your opinion what is the better bang for buck CPU (feel free to give more suggestions as long as it is under 150€): - AMD Phenom II X6 1045T 6 cores 2,70 GHz (99€) - AMD Phenom II X4 965 quad core 3.4 GHz black edition (120€, overpriced? There is also a 964 black edition advertised on Amazon, however they do mean 965. for 79€) - FX 6350 4.2 GHz 6 cores (139€) - FX 4350 4.3 GHz quad core (129€) Thanks!

Not going to answer you in French because I'm scared that you will not understand :P (BTW, good French, however it's "ils on tendances à mourir très vite" and "est une carte graphique pour 150€ tu devrais y jeté un coup d’œil" :P ). Anyways, I've looked up the Plextor M4 and I can only find one on sale in France and it's 127€ for 128GB... So was I think I'm going with either the SanDisk as it's the cheapest or with the Samsung 840 120GB as it's the cheapest for the most capacity. As fro the graphic card I wasn't going to update it just yet as I have only a small budget and decided that a new CPU and SSD would be better at this time, however my next upgrade so probably in six months will be the GPU and either the case or a modular PSU. But thanks for the suggestion anyways... Thanks for the advice! Alright so, does anybody know for sure that you cannot use an AM3+ CPU on a AM3 mobo? If so what's better bang for buck: - AMD Phenom II X6 1045T 6 cores 2,70 GHz (99€) - AMD Phenom II X4 965 quad core 3.4 GHz black edition (120€, overpriced? There is also a 964 black edition advertised on Amazon, however they do mean 965. for 79€) - FX 6350 4.2 GHz 6 cores (139€) - FX 4350 4.3 GHz quad core (129€) Thanks!

Would you recommend any specific SSD from my post earlier on? "for an SSD is an OCZ vertex 3 any good as its the cheapest with the most capacity (90GB)? Around 70€. Other ones I'm looking at are the Samsung 840 120GB SSD for 84€ or the SanDisk 64 GB SSD for 58€ or finally the Crucial M4 64 GB SSD for 72€. Which ones the better option concerning value for money? (Linus and others seem the raise the Samsung 840 so I was thinking on going with that one...) Thanks!'

LMAO seriously man that's just awesome hahaha :D. But seriously when doing something why not do it properly? I've done as good as I possibly could (IMO) without going balls to the walls and making custom everything. But that isn't OCD it's just 'in the search of perfection' which I respect :)

Thanks! Yeah got a bit of OCD myself, but not that severe :D . All my case fans are different ways up mostly for cable management, which you can see is a bit of a mess ;) tried as hard as I could without making custom cables which I doubt I will ever do...

Like it was suggested I am uploading better pictures, enjoy! ;) PS: I have tried to remove the glare of the soft touch finish on the case as much as possible :mellow: Bitfenix Survivor Core, great case but problems with airflow and cable management, despite it's downsides I would recommend this case if you can still buy it! Back of the PC Insides: And the EPIC cable management! :D Thanks for stopping by! And feel free to answer any of my previous questions about upgrades... Any advice and input is welcome. PS: really hope these are better than the first ones... :) Thomas

It is super ghetto :D Yeah I've heard of super taxes in AUS (mainly due to watching Mighty car mods :D), it's 37€ here so not that cheap but still under the 40€ mark, do you happen to know the difference between the DG and the DGX?

Well thank you I will definitely need to check that out next time I restart my PC

I believe they still sell these in France but under a different name...

They still sell 3D chips everywhere in France not Doritos ones but Benenuts still very good do.... :P in tones of different flavours I definitely miss Doritos they don't sell them in France so I need to stock up on them when I go to the Uk

Thanks! Yeah, failed to mention that in the description to complicated, ones some corsair 4GB stick that I brought with the build and the other is some Kingston 4GB RAM stick that was lying around and that happened to be compatible, nice eye for detail :D

AH yes good question, well can't really help you there either I'm afraid it's a very complicated setup. The speakers that you can see are from an Akai sound system that I brought years ago for a 100€ (originally a DVD player thingy, with iPod dock), after buying it a built this computer and I realized that there was no real option to input into the current setup so went and brought a crap pair of Philips speakers that came with a bass (for 20€ I believe) and a Lepai 20W digital amplifier (20€ from Hong Kong). So what I have at the moment is my PC plug into the bass/amp of the Philips speakers that I brought then the Lepai amp plug into the the speaker output of the Philips bass/amp and my Akai speaker plug into the Lepai amp. So wouldn't really recommend what I have at the moment, but it actually sounds really good, which is rather surprising. Anyways hope you managed to follow so far :P, but it turned out alright since the whole thing cost me 140€ and sounds better than anything else I have listened to at the same price. One rather annoying thing with this setup with two amps is that if you turn anything up to max it would brake your ears :D. Good luck finding a good pair of speakers, and that brings me on to another question I have about sound cards, what is the best sound card you can get for around 40€ (USD $50)?

Give me one of those HDDs!! I'm so running out of space :( Anyways great build! Needs a bit more cable management but other than that EPIC!

They were good quality when I took them but they were 4 MB so had to compress them making them look crap. I will upload a few more pictures with good lighting some time tonight, but the case was second hand so not great looking. Will clean it up a bit a take a few more. It is a good case however it does have a few problems one of them being airflow and the other cable management, was planning on putting a window in but it might destroy the clean looks of the case.