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bad mr frosty

bad mr frosty

bad mr frosty

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Got the case, monitor, keyboard, mouse, HD etc

Is this lot the best I can get for the money? I REALLY don`t want to spend any more...

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Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB      £184.99 (£217.36)
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Motherboard          £64.99  (£76.36)
Coolermaster Real Power 520w PSU           £51.99  (£61.09)
C2D E6750 2.66GHz                          £97.99  (£115.14)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) £30.99  (£36.41)

  		Sub Total : £430.95
                 Shipping : £8.95
                      VAT : £76.98
  	            Total : £516.88

Cheers for your wisdom guys
 
If you're not going quad-core then anything more than the E2180 isn't worth it. The E2180 will clock to over 3GHz anyway. Grab a decent CPU cooler and it'll be ncie and quiet as well. :)

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you could get a E2180 instead of a E6750, and clock it much faster than 2.66GHz, and that would save you £60. Also I think Corsair modular HX power supplies are supposed to be better and they cost about the same.
 
Hi and welcome :)

I would replace the 8800GTS with the BFG 8800GT OC2 512mb as you get a lifetime warranty, its £17 less and losing out on 16 stream processors will make fractional difference unless your gaming on high resolutions.

You can then spend the £17 on an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler so you can get better overclocks with the E6750.

If your willing to sacrifice modular for pure excellence then I would also reccommend the PC Power & Cooling 610W PSU and its only £3 extra.
 
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Thanks for the advice on the CPU guys, but I`m more than a little confused :(

The E6750 has FSB of 1333mhz and 4MB cache.
The E2180 has FSB of 800mhz and 1MB cache.

Assuming I clocked them both to 3.2 GHZ which would be faster? I`m assuming it would be the E6750 and also assuming (maybe wrongly) I could do it on stock cooling.

Sorry about the Q`s, I`m coming from a Barton 2500+ (clocked to 3200+) that I have had for 4 - 5 years.
 
Depends on what you want the CPU for.

If its gaming and general use then the E2180 will be fine as the multiplyer on the E2180 is higher so needs less FSB increases to attain 3Ghz+.

There is mixed reviews about the cache but as it stands, 1mb or 4mb does not make much of a difference in gaming.

If your overclocking the CPU then you definately need a 3rd party cooler as the stock ones are absolutely crap.
 
I only chose the retail one becuase I thought u get 3 years warrenty rarther than 1 with the oem and for £2 its worth it, you'd have a spare heatsink aswel!
 
when did i say it would be cool? point is the cpu can take up to 100 degrees. Money is tight and there is no point wasting it on a bad cpu cooler. get a good one or dont get one at all. Seens as the cpu can be overclocked to 3.2ghz on stock cooler he doesn't need to waste the money.
 
Re-read, I claimed they run cool, that's why the stock HSF is far from crap since it does its job pretty well as it is :p
 
I never mentioned that an E2180 would not go to 3.2Ghz on a stock cooler.

I merely advised that if he wants to overclock 'the' cpu, meaning either the E2180 or the E6750 then it would be cooler and quieter having a Freezer 7 Pro (cheap and does its job far bettter) nailed to it as opposed to the stock cooler that I personally rate as a concave, useless dust collecting ear busting piece of pigs bum water.

Everyone to their own I guess :)
 
Thanks for all the advise guys, I`m swinging towards this spec (Mix and match from advise above):

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C2D E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail      £47.99 (£56.39)
OcUK 4GB (4x1GB) PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit £43.98 (£51.68)
Corsair VX 450W ATX PSU (CMPSU-450VXUK)                  £37.99 (£44.64)
Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L Intel P31 (Socket 775) PCI-Express  £46.99 (£55.21)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)  £14.99 (£17.61)
Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB                    £184.99 (£217.36)

  		Sub Total : £376.93
                  Shipping : £9.95
                        VAT : £67.70
  	               Total : £454.58

Last couple of Q`s:

I need some thermal goop as well right? What`s recomended these days?

Will 4 Gigs of that memory affect my overclock? Better to go for different memory or only 2 GIGS?

The motherboard has good reviews, what do you guys recon?

I game at 1280 X 1024 or 1280 X 720 (Connected to HDTV) but I will not be upgrading again for at least 2 - 3 years. The GFX card might be overkill for those res but in a years time who knows.

Cheers again guys.

BMF
 
I need some thermal goop as well right? What`s recomended these days?
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I can recommend Artic Silver 5, but I've heard there are cheaper, equally good alternatives. Just make sure you know how to apply it properly, that is important.

Better to go for different memory or only 2 GIGS?
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You don't really need 4GB of RAM at the moment.

Good choice of PSU. I recently bought a Corsair HX620, it's much quieter than my previous power supply and is much cooler too - my CPU idle temps have dropped about 5°C. It may be worth opting for the HX520, as it's modular and not much more in price than the VX450.

The GFX card might be overkill for those res but in a years time who knows.
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A PC considered overkill three years ago may now struggle to play today's games. Go for it - some say there's no such thing as overkill.
 
If your installing a 64bit OS them 4GB of memory will be fine. If its a 32bit OS then it will only use 3.25Gb of your memory.

Again there is mixed views on not been able to overclock as good with 4GB of memory as opposed to 2GB but that will really depend on the make of memory you have and the OCUK stuff i'm not sure about as you never know what make your going to get. Some have said they got Corsair memory with an OCUK badge on and some have said otherwise.

The 450W Corsair will be fine for your current rig but if your looking to SLI the 8800GT's in the future then you may well need a PSU with a bit more oomph, possibly 550W+.
 
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