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pastymuncher

pastymuncher

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Hi guy's. My son has given me £250 to build a gaming rig. A complete rig too. :eek: Anyway, i have a cunning plan. I can build him a rig that will play games but it will be not that much to shout about. I was thinking of building it around the Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA LGA775 Motherboard which i have found in stock for £41. I was thinking of dropping a P4 524 3.06ghz (533 fsb)or a 630/631 3ghz (800 fsb) cpu in it for the time being and he can have my old Asus V9999GE Gamer Edition agp graphics card. With this motherboard he can upgrade it as, and when, he can afford it, bit by bit. Namely to a C2D after the price drops. The only thing i am not sure of is the memory.

Will a dual channel kit of Corsair (TWIN2X1024-5400C4) 1024MB DDR2 XMS2-5300/5400 (667/675MHz) 4-4-4-12 2x512mb 240pin DIMM Black XMS2 be compatiable with the P4's and any C2D he decides to buy?

Cheer's for your advice. :)
 
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Because i am not getting it from OCUK. Only paying one postage charge is part of the plan and i can get a brand new 524 for £44, 630 for £49 or a 631 for £52. That memory also only cost's £67.84 as well.

I did think of going for a Pentium D but as he is going to upgrade to C2D when he can afford to i did'nt see any point. Was tempted though as i found them from £58.
 
I know the two faced Labour government is all pally with the yanks but Scotland has'nt drifted all that distance. We are waiting for independance before we up anchor and motor off to warmer climes. Taking our oil resources with us of course. :p

So there's no problem with the speed of that memory for any of the chips then?
 
I would'nt touch a Dell with a barge pole. Anyway, he would have no upgrade path then as Dells are such a pain to upgrade. The plan is in my first post.

Ok then, i will go with the 630/631. Will that ram be ok or do i need faster stuff? Never built an Intel pc before. :confused:
 
He thinks overclocking is when you overwind a clock. :D

Cheer's for that. I will have a look for 6400 at the same place to see how the price differs.

*Edit* They have budget 6400 2x512mb at the same price. Not sure what to do now. Bear in mind he's going to go with C2D when he can afford it after the price drops.
 
OK, cheers. :D

One last question. I know P4's run hot but will a 65nm be much cooler than a 90nm. Does it work the same way as AMD chips were the smaller fabrication menas cooler running more efficient chips?
 
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Am i right in thinking then, that a P4 with a 800mhz fsb uses a quad pumped 200 bus?

If that's so DDR2 6400 runs at 800mhz, presumably 400x2? I suppose that means that for the P4 (gone for the 631 by the way) the memory speed will drop to 200mhz/DDR2 400? :confused: :confused:

Sorry about all the questions but i have never used ddr2 or anything Intel.
 
Did'nt know you could do that.

So really if i stuck with the XMS2 5300 667mhz kit i could still run that at 200mhz to give the P4 it's 800fsb. That way he gets a decent kit of branded memory instead of some stuff i have never heard of and it will still be good with a C2D?
 
God dammit. With all these flaming questions i have been asking the damn stuffs gone out of stock!!!! :(

Still need to know the answer to the last question though. Last one. I promise. ;)
 
Try reading my original post at the top. I know a P4 is'nt as good as an AMD for gaming just look at my siggy. It's getting built with an upgrade to a C2D in mind. There's no point in investing what little money he has in a dead end socket.
 
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