what hardrive and psu ?

[G~MAN]

ok i need a new hardrive and a power supply for the following specs... i want to spend nomore that £100 really, but i can stretch a liitle over if nescessarry :

- AMD Athlon 64 3200 (maybe 3500 ... see if i can get the money together )
- Asus A8N-SLI deluxe
- Corsair 1GB
- Leadtek winfast PX 6600gt ( x2 eventually )

i saw this PSU :

Jeantech 550W gold ATX2.0 case (sorry i dont have a link ) at £45

and this :

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Other_PSUs_148.html

2nd down

and this... http://overclock.co.uk/customer/product.php?productid=17218

any suggestions ... thanks

 

[Me__2001]

first i would go with a SATA hard drive i think they cost slightly more but they are alot better than IDE, im not familiar with those PSU's KGB had a jeantech one so maybe he can tell us what it was like, if you really want a decent one then Tagan, Antec and Enermax are the ones to go for, i'd go with Tagan as they are cheaper than antec and enermax

TG480-U01 (third down)

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Tagan.html

maxtor SATA HD 2nd down or 3rd one whatever you can afford

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Maxtor2.html

those two will be about £115

 

[psd99]

for a harrdrive
dont go for any maxtor
i suggest u buy a SEAGATE such as: http://www.kotech.co.uk/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=337

 

[KGB-911]

im not familiar with those PSU's KGB had a jeantech one so maybe he can tell us what it was like

'Twas a good un. Never had any problems, and was powerful.

 

[G~MAN]

do you have a link KGB ??

shall i use my old one or just have a fresh new 1 ? a hardrive that is

 

[Me__2001]

if you have an old hard drive in good condition then use that, you dont need to buy a new one it just makes things easier

 

[G~MAN]

well i suppose it is in good condition! lol its around 3 years old... i could do without losing the money...

but not really looked into hardrives so i dont know how big a role they play lol...

on task manager when it says CPU usuage? well is that dependant on how big your HD is?? does it make a computer any quicker :s

or would you suggest just to buy a new one?

 

[crazylegs]

If you are going in for a new hard drive make sure it's either a Seagate or a Samsung they both offer 3 year warrantys on there drives, other manufacturers only offer a year at most....

 

[Captainpants]

Personally I would buy a small SATA drive to put XP, drivers etc on- and if possible use your old drive to store documents etc. I understand you can buy these SATA drives for less than £50 these days. I would never buy Jeantech- they are the only PSU of choice from PC World. As we all know these are usually big out of town warehouses who specialise in employing 17yr gimps who in turn think they know what they are talking about. TAGAN is the one to go for. Get a cheap reliable SATA drive and put the change into getting the best TAGAN you can buy. I speak from experience with my old AThlon thunderbird- turns the PSU was pants and couldnt handle counterstrike at full tilt.

 

[Captainpants]

Just checked the above TAGAN 480 PSU- def worth it and Dabs are doing a SEAGATE 40Gb SATA for £40 -quicklink ref 3K5RWS - with 8mb Cache. WIll keep you going until you can afford a bigger hard drive

Check it out you will be fool not too!

 

[G~MAN]

captainpants

how much can that store then??

my current one has enough space for what i need really... unless games take up more of the room!

on everest... ( i cant seem to put pictures on :S :S ) but anyways it said i have ( I THINK ! )

this:
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/M...port/ATA Hard Drives/Desktop/Fireball Plus AS

it says on everest i have a 'unformated capacity' of 38173 MB

pleasw help very confuzzled lol

 

[Me__2001]

you should be able to post pics, host it at http://www.imageshack.us/and post the link, if the number of MB's you've posted is right you have roughly a 40GB HD, so get either another 40 or a 60 and use the one you have so you have two drives

 

[G~MAN]

ok i have seen this psu...

the cases seem to be of good quality ! what about this :

http://www.kotech.co.uk/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=852

 

[Me__2001]

the PSU is one thing that you shouldn't try and save money on, get the Tagan it will not give you any trouble and will provide your system with stable power

 

[G~MAN]

ok the tagan it is ! and the maxtor hardrive

just have to get together another £100 and i can start the build

 

[floppybootstomp]

A 600W PSU for 25 quid has gotta be rubbish, like Q-Tec.

Jeantech are actually good PSU's. I've put them in systems and I have a 350W version here that's been running 24/7 for over two years now.

Yes, they are sold by PC World, but for once they seem to have it right.

Some time back, reefsmoka posted a link to a list of good and bad PSU's. Jeantech was up there with the good ones.

I favour Tagan myself, but credit where credit's due, the Jeantech's are actually quite OK, especially for the money.

And if you need a hard drive, go SATA. Any name make is OK, it's a lottery whether you get a bad one or not with all of them. I like Western Digital and Seagate myself, but I ain't really sure why, lol. And the only make of hard drive that's never died on me is Maxtor, oddly enough.

 

[G~MAN]

what sort of size should i be looking for ??

i think i have already a 40GB one but i saw this aswell

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=120050&cks=SER

 

[floppybootstomp]

That looks like a goodie, G-Man, you not going SATA then?


Only you know what size you need, 160Gb or 200Gb seems fine to me, depends how many mp3's, photos and what-have-you you want to store.

 

[Me__2001]

how about this one, £4 more and its SATA

http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=308201&cks=PRL

 

[G~MAN]

well i have over 1000 songs on itunes... alot of pictures due to my digi cam! no videos!

not to much skl work but the odd bit here and there ermmmm thats it basically lol...

well what is the average size for a hardrive? atm mine seems to be fine but i shall get a new one just soo the whole system is fresh

what actually is the difference between ATA and SATA :S

i didnt realise it wasnt SATA so i ofund this instead
http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.asp?sku=308201&cks=SER