750 squid rig

roid · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:02

How's that looking? The E6300 is out of stock so chose the E6600, X1950 Pro is an easy choice for bang per buck. Rest are just semi-educated guesses. Already have the extras like monitor, mouse, keyboard etc.

Not going to be using it for uber hardcore gaming, but would like games like half-life 2, prey, oblivion to run well and respectable resolutions and detail settings. Do quite a bit of dvd encoding too.

Might be daring and dabble in overclocking too, to which i assume this spec would be capable of.

Anyways, gotta be better than my current rig:

2500+ xp barton
1 gig ram
60g hDD
6800 nu

Suggestions / substitutions would be greatly appreciated. Will probably be buying when i get my next pay check, so end of January.

Goody_GTI · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:04

I would personally spend a bit more on the ram, more like £170-£180 and would therefore give you more overclocking headroom

Raikiri · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:07

goody_106 said:
I would personally spend a bit more on the ram, more like £170-£180 and would therefore give you more overclocking headroom

With a 6600 and 800mhz ram, thats 3.6ghz before the ram is overclocked at all so I wouldn't. What I would do is change the cooler to the arctic freezer 7 pro.

hp7909 · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:14

Rumour has it that, that case is not that good

Better off with the trusty Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS

Also, the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro is cheaper & better (see here)

semi-pro waster · 7 Jan 2007 at 17:17

I was just about to ask if anyone knew more about the case, a mini-review here seems to suggest it isn't brilliant but not too bad either. If you can stretch the budget a tad then a Corsair 520w is a very good PSU to go for and then just pick a case without a PSU of your choice, Antec do a pretty cheap case that would be suitable in the form of the SLK3000B.

roid · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:14

Right, so:

£750 has quickly turned into £800 :]

Raikiri · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:15

You only need one cooler

just Scott · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:16

You could save a bit more by getting the S3 instead of the DS3 also. They're exactly the same except the DS3 has solid capacitors.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-063-GI

And yeah, drop the Zalman cooler.

roid · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:22

ahem which 2nd cooler :rolleyes:

just Scott · 7 Jan 2007 at 18:25

roid said:
ahem which 2nd cooler

Haha, sneaky.

roid · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:17

H2F Scott said:
You could save a bit more by getting the S3 instead of the DS3 also. They're exactly the same except the DS3 has solid capacitors.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-063-GI

And yeah, drop the Zalman cooler.

So what are the main differences between the s3 and ds3 then? I'll have a dig around for some reviews tomorrow when i'm a bit more awake

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:20

If I were you I'd get an akasa eclipse or an antec P180 instead of that case.

MickeyFinns · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:25

id say up the disk to a 320gb to as they're better value i.e. pence per gb.

just Scott · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:25

roid said:
So what are the main differences between the s3 and ds3 then? I'll have a dig around for some reviews tomorrow when i'm a bit more awake

The only difference is the solid capacitors. That's all. Other than that they're identical.

Margaret · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:30

Could get the price down by getting another PSU instead, Corsair ones sure are pricy.

b.cummins · 7 Jan 2007 at 23:39

Jihad said:
Could get the price down by getting another PSU instead, Corsair ones sure are pricy.

yes - I have the 700w OCZ but frankly I think their 450w is fine too.. No problems with em whatsoever!