- Joined
- Feb 4, 2006
- Location
- Regina, SK
G'day everyone,
I have a few short type questions here. I am looking at WC my computer for a couple reasons. 1) Right now it is so loud that if I leave it running at night, my neighbors complain (a little overexagerated, but not by that much) 2) With my current setup my idle temps are 47-50 degrees celcius and a load when playing BF2 is up near 60.
I am not looking to overclock anything, just something that is reletively quiet than my current setup and might drop those temps down a bit.
My setup is as follows:
AMD XP 2800+
1.2 gig Kingston RAM
2x160GB Seagate HDD's in RAID0
Sapphire x800 GTO 256MB video
Gigabyte GA7Z600 (?) mainboard
SB live (you can all laugh now )
My current budget is only about $200 Canadian Dollars (roughly .02 USD - haa haa) as still have my family to support. And I am pretty good with hardware and stuff, but don't have the knowledge to build a WC setup from scratch.
I found a couple kits from NCIX.ca for a not too bad price. A Kingwin AS-3000 and a Thermaltake BigWater SE kit and both would be just under 200.00 with tax and shipping. There are also a couple kits that are a bit higher and am willing to go with other kits, but not for much higher than the 250.00 mark.
Any thoughts or suggestions that may help???
I have a few short type questions here. I am looking at WC my computer for a couple reasons. 1) Right now it is so loud that if I leave it running at night, my neighbors complain (a little overexagerated, but not by that much) 2) With my current setup my idle temps are 47-50 degrees celcius and a load when playing BF2 is up near 60.
I am not looking to overclock anything, just something that is reletively quiet than my current setup and might drop those temps down a bit.
My setup is as follows:
AMD XP 2800+
1.2 gig Kingston RAM
2x160GB Seagate HDD's in RAID0
Sapphire x800 GTO 256MB video
Gigabyte GA7Z600 (?) mainboard
SB live (you can all laugh now )
My current budget is only about $200 Canadian Dollars (roughly .02 USD - haa haa) as still have my family to support. And I am pretty good with hardware and stuff, but don't have the knowledge to build a WC setup from scratch.
I found a couple kits from NCIX.ca for a not too bad price. A Kingwin AS-3000 and a Thermaltake BigWater SE kit and both would be just under 200.00 with tax and shipping. There are also a couple kits that are a bit higher and am willing to go with other kits, but not for much higher than the 250.00 mark.
Any thoughts or suggestions that may help???