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Which one to buy?

RookieClocker said:
will a 500 watt octigen dot he job or is octigen a dodgy company?
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Personally... from looking at their website they look like rebrand whores. It's probably a cheap chinese PSU rebranded.

Put it this way, skimping on the PSU (especially a weird brand) could lead to things like fires / fried componenets or the machine turning off due the the rated power not being as specified.

Any power supply from here is considered "good quality"

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=123

I would stick with Corsair as they have an excellent RMA turnaround should it go wrong.

Rob
 
Well do u guys think i should get a overclocked bundle instead cause my pc atm is wack o
P4 @ 2.67 ghz
1.2ghz of unknow branded ram
and a 80gb hdd

so now if i want to play BFBC2 on this pc will it be able?
 
Something like the below would be a significant jump from what you are currently running :)

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ohh not bad at all just wondering ..
what the max u can overclock the cpu too and i was wondering wouldnt it be better to find a mobo with 2 pci-es so if i need to crossfire alse i was reading about the new phenom so instead of getting a athlon mayby i could get a phenox x2 or x3 so if in future i need a better cpu i could dash a x6 in there
and if the motherboard had 2 pci e slots i could get a crossfire in ther

im guessing thats ^^^^^^ what u call future proofing

and ther still around 50 quid to play with or shall i put that aside for a copy of bc2 and a decent gaming mouse :)
 
RookieClocker said:
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Yes you could get a better board and cpu, I was just trying to keep things as cheap as possible whilst giving you a pretty good gaming machine for your current 17" monitor.

Until you upgrade your monitor however that spec (or something similar) will do you just fine :)
 
well all i kno is that dads gunna buy a new tv soon since the current one has a crack going straight through it

but then again is the build above future proof cose if it aint dads gunna rub it in ....
 
RookieClocker said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=fs-022-op
bingo ? everything i need ?
all i need is to uograde that mobo to xfire, which mobo are xfire compat?
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no graphic card with that system. also the new amd x6 cpu got rather inconsistence performance in gaming, with frame rate slower than its brother Phenom II X4 965 in some game, similar frame rate in some, and only faster in a few. Also it has known issue or bottlenecking graphic cards in Crysis:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-phenom-ii-x6-1090t-890fx,2613-9.html

Here's a Intel build for that budget around that budget:
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This will be faster than RookieClocker's #34's AMD build, as the i3 530 at 4.20GHz would be fast enough to keep up with a single 5870 without bottlenecking it...the same cannot be said for the for the Phenom II X2 555 at 3.60GHz, as even a faster Quad2Duo E8400 at 4.25GHz will bottleneck a 5870 by around 10-15%. Phenom II X2 555 is same level CPU as a Core2Duo E7500, but is considered inferior to the latter because it can't easily overclock to 4.0GHz...if at all.

But to be fair, AMD's upgradability would be more open it seem. But I don't think you need to go as high as i7 920 or Phenom II X6 unless you are planning on investing money for like crossfiring a pair of 5850 or 5870 or a single 5970.
 
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