£600 system spec

alastair84

alastair84

alastair84

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hi i just looked at o/c and came up with this £600 spend.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £97.99
(£115.14) £97.99
(£115.14)
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HK PC2-6400C4 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK) £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
(£76.36)
Pioneer DVR-212DBK 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
Samsung SpinPoint S 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD250HJ) £35.99
(£42.29) £35.99
(£42.29)
PNY GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £159.99
(£187.99) £159.99
(£187.99)
Corsair TX 650W ATX2.2 SLi Compliant PSU £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)

I won't be needing a monitor or case as i'm using my antec slk3000

Was just wondering is this setup ok?
Are there any drastic changes that anyone would make?
I will be looking to mainly play games on this. thanks.
 
ahh k thanks.
also was wondering if spending an extra £45 to get an Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 would be worth it gaming performance wise. am i right in thinking the Asus P5K Intel P35 supports the quad processor?
 
you could get away with buying the 520W corsair PSU as that will run that system.
dual core cpus are enough for gaming, however quads will help dependign on how much stuff you run in the background as you can assign the tasks to run on the cores your game is not using. if the game/program is multithreaded then the quad will be better.

if you want to overclock and stick with a dual core i suggest a e2180 with a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775), then an overclock to 3ghz, this should be relatively easy with a p35 based MB.
 
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