£600 ish Budget

[Mobium]

£700 ish Budget

Good Afternoon all,

My first post and needing some advice please.

It is time to upgrade my somewhat laughable PC :

Currently have :
AMD 3200
1 GB Corsair Value Memory
9800 Pro 256mb
Two IDE Drives from Western Digitial total 80GB Storage.
Viewsonic 19" LCD
Antec p180 Case.

Primarily will be a gaming rig, I don't need mouse, keyboard, case or Screen ( I will keep the Viewsonic). Sound will be onboard.

My Budget is £700.

This is my current build I am thinking of. (I do plan to O/C based on the findings on the e2160 Vs e6600 - a Melbourne720 Review).

CD/DVD : Samsung SH-S183ABEBN DVD±RW SATA - OEM £21.14

Graphics BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 640MB - £264.35

MOBO Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R - £93.99

CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 - £58.74

HD Samsung SpinPoint 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - £39.94

Power Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular PSU - £64.61

Memory OcUK 2GB PC2-6400C5 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel - £58.74

Cooling Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler - £31.71

O/S Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM £64.61

Total including VAT & Delivery is £709.54 .

 

[paradigm]

Personally i'd go for the E2140, personal experience shows they clock harder than the E2160's and you get a higher FSB to boot, my E2160 would only hit 3.2GHz at 355FSB, my E2140 would do almost 3.4GHz (422x8).


I also prefer the Abit IP35 to the gigabyte, but either are a good choice.

 

[Mobium]

Tha'ts impressive indeed, certainly has given me food for thought there !

Thanks for the feedback.

 

[DavidB]

Personally i'd go for the E2140, personal experience shows they clock harder than the E2160's ...

Think its down to the batch you get to an extent, as theres also reports saying the exact opposite.

Either way, betting on the cheaper solution makes more sense to me !

 

[paradigm]

Think its down to the batch you get to an extent, as theres also reports saying the exact opposite.

Either way, betting on the cheaper solution makes more sense to me !

Perhaps, however 4 completely different week chips, and both E2140's clocked higher than both E2160's.