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scrogg101

scrogg101

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Hey Guys

I'm a novice PC builder and i've been using a premade PC for the last three years, and sadly it just no longer cuts the mustard. I was hoping you chaps could help me out in respect to the spec.

I'm mainly a gamer, playing FPS's that require a decent graphics card. I'm also looking for longevity in a machine, my last one lasted three years and was hoping for about the same out of this one, or at least easy upgradability.
Although i'm not giving an experimental spec here there are a few things of the OcUK site i thought looked about right for me.Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB), This processor looked good, though i've no idea on the mother board. I'm intending to finally upgrade to windows vista so was gonna get this:Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788). And i also thought 4 gig of ram seemed to be the thing to go for so this seemed right: OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK). For hard drive i was hoping for at least 500 gig, hoping that won't put the budget up too much. The things i have no idea about are PSU, Processor cooler, Case, optical drive and most importantly motherboard and graphics card. My old PC has a soundcard i could use, though folk tell me most motherboards have good sound included these days. I also have a decent monitor so we're just talking base unit only.

My Budget is 800-900 quid-ish.

Hope you chaps can help.
 
Im presuming this is a whole new spec including case. But do you need monitor as well?

Also what sound card do you have?

Also would you overclock? there is a lot of extra power tht can be had by overclocking a q6600 also overclocking a GTX is dead easy.

IM specing you up right now. Currently at 1k and simplyfying but tbh is you shopped around it could be had for your budget.


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OK then here are two specs

The DVD drive is in white only because the current black one is out of stock. They are the same price though.

If you will overclock this spec can be had for just over your budget, but i cant say where ;)

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If you dont want to overclock you can get this instead. The actualy difference between the prices seems like a lot on ocuk but not so much else where.

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If your really set on 900 quid and from ocuk. You could get this but note the graphics card has only 1 year warrenty:

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Thanx a lot 8igdave. Seems a great build. Why do folk prefer the energy efficient processor over the normal one. Does it have the same performance? Is it just more environmentally friendly? What sort of Cooler fan should i buy? Any other suggestions out there?
 
scrogg101 said:
Why do folk prefer the energy efficient processor over the normal one. Does it have the same performance? Is it just more environmentally friendly?
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100% of the energy a processor uses is emitted as heat. The recommended Q6600 runs cooler and as such overclocks higher.
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What sort of Cooler fan should i buy?
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The Tuniq Tower 120. If you get an aftermarket cooler be sure to get the OEM version of the processor. OEM procs don't come with coolers and are usually significantly less expensive.
 
scrogg101 said:
Thanx a lot 8igdave. Seems a great build. Why do folk prefer the energy efficient processor over the normal one. Does it have the same performance? Is it just more environmentally friendly? What sort of Cooler fan should i buy? Any other suggestions out there?
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produces less heat, and uses less power, better for oc'ing basically.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
100% of the energy a processor uses is emitted as heat. The recommended Q6600 runs cooler and as such overclocks higher.The Tuniq Tower 120. If you get an aftermarket cooler be sure to get the OEM version of the processor. OEM procs don't come with coolers and are usually significantly less expensive.
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The OEM cpus have less warrenty too, the ones OcUK sell have 1yr warrenty instead of 3.

Also, i dont know a great deal of electronics, but surely 100% of the energy input into a cpu cant be transformed into heat. The way i understand it, is a certain ammount of energy is put into the CPU, the cpu does whatever calculations and such are needed and provides an output, which is where the energy ends up. Through this process, resistance causes heat, but not all the energy becoems heat.

If all the energy was lost along the way, there would be no energy left to output what the cpu was use to calculate.

So the energy efficient CPU requires less energy to do the same task as a normal cpu, less energy = less resistance met = less energy transformed into heat.

8igdave why have you speced 2x optical drivers? surely 1 is enough
 
Nope, simply switching the semiconductor in a transistor turns electrical energy into heat. Do this a few billion times per second and it adds up. In addition to that you have the resistance of the wires but that's paltry compared to the power consumed while actually working. Think about how much power goes into a computer from the wall, 250 watts let's say. How much energy is leaving the machine except through heat? Some turns into sound which eventually becomes heat after bouncing around your living room a bit. Some leaves as electricity in the form of the output to the monitor. A tiny amount becomes light through LEDs and such. ALL the rest of it is converted into heat in the machine.

A computer is a more efficient space heater than a space heater since so little energy is turned into useless light.
 
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