New Pc Set Up

New Pc Set Up Opinions please

#1 khicks

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Posted 06 January 2013 - 07:54 AM

I am new to self building a PC. My shop bought one recently died after about 7 years due to the whole motherboard just...failing. Anyway I have around £200 to spend and I am really tempted by the AMD Bulldozer FX-4170 Quad Core 4.2GHz with the Asus M5A78L-M USB3 HDMI Motherboard due to it being in budget and seeming good value for money with its 8GB of RAM. I have also bought already a second hard drive to act as a slave drive for storage, and the other purely to boot windows. I have an Nvidia 9500GT from the old computer to add as well. I would like to know if this seems like a good setup to play games and manage other files and programs? Also I would like to know how exactly to get both of my Hard drives installed to use as I have mentioned above. Many thanks.

#2 coastie65

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Posted 06 January 2013 - 03:39 PM

khicks, on 06 January 2013 - 07:54 AM, said:

Hi and welcome to the forums. It would seem that you have things pretty figured as to what is needed ( MOBO, Processor, & Memory ). Given your budget, that looks pretty good. As for gaming, the Nvidia 9500GT may be questionable ( I haven't checked the specs ). A 9800GT would be better. If that card is 128 bit, then you should probably be alright although the newer games may be a bit problematic.

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#3 Rommel

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Posted 07 January 2013 - 04:04 AM

Not much time to reply.
One note.
I awesume you are using two sata HDDs???

Just plug them in according to the motherboards manual.
When you go to load your OS, it should see both drives.
Install the OS where you want.
When win install is complete you should see the drive you want for storage as D:

If you don't see it you will need to initailize it.
Easly done. If needed we'll deal with it then.