A few hints please...

Frankly if you're not going to overclock it'll probably be easier and cheaper to buy a preassembled machine from Dell, HP, or some other OEM. The benefit of building your own machine is that it gives you control over the machine's performance. You can save thousands by spending a few minutes in the BIOS making tweaks that turn a cheap pokey machine into a screamer. :)

If you want a hand overclocking there is a large and active section on OcUK for overclocking and cooling. Read the sticky to start then start a thread and ask away. :)
 
cheers man, i know your right, it makes sense, everywhere i read everyone is overlcoking these things with minium fuss

so far, my expeirience with builds has only been with amd machines, is this much different?
 
Nah, the only real difference is the CPU socket and if you can't figure that out with all the pictograms you're given with the mobo and CPU you might qualify for a free German Shepherd and some dark sunglasses. ;)
 
awesome, always wanted a german sherpard, i could call it coruthers, and teach it to attack foreign dogs, hehe


cheers for you help man..

from what im going to get, assuming i overlclock how long has this system got in it, years wise..?
 
It'll probably last more than 10 years. Motherboards are usually the first things to die because most use capacitors that are liquid-filled. These eventually leak and lose performance.

In short, you need not worry about the life of your components if you're doing sane, normal things with them.
 
good good

i have more questions but i fear your gonna do that dad thing where you tell me to pipe down as you try and read the sunday papers, lol :(
 
in all honesty is the 8800 a good purchase? i mean ive read the hub bub and the press about it, but with my 6600 in tow can i expect, well, for want of a better word, lighting in a bottle....


at the moment im playing games like rb6:vegas and f.e.a.r, obviously im going to be moving onto the brothers in arms hells higways and the crysis's of the world, and also vista aswell


i know this hardware isnt tested in those repects, but is it a safe bet?

like i say, a year ago i brougt my 7800 gt and to be honest im sort of regretting that, should have been more patient and probably paid for a better processer...
 
The 8800 will certainly have some staying power. It'll destroy anything out now and it'll be great for next-gen games that use DX10. It's rarely a good financial decision to get the top-of-the line card though as you tend to pay to make the mid and low range cards cheaper for the masses. ;)

If I were personally buying right now I'd get an ATi X1950 Pro then save up for next fall when there are good games to play that need DX10 cards. The ATi will play everything out now on high settings and in the future there will be more cards from which to choose and prices will go down. Sell your X1950 right before the new cards come out and you'll make back a significant part of your initial investment.

that said, if you can't be arsed to upgrade in the future the 8800 isn't a bad buy right now. It's a matter of whether or not you want to pay to be cutting edge.
 
well, my old man god bless him always tells me pay high now, cus even if it leaves you out of pocket, the next time you dip in the again, you wont be doing it early because of the poor stuff you brought before, and when i look at it hes right in a strange sort of way...

most people can happily bump the resoloutions down for a few months but i cant roll like that, the way i see it my pc is essentially 3 xbox 360s in one box, so it should act like it.....


while im thinking about it, im running my monitor on a vga cable at the moment, with a hdmi, i think thats right, converter thing, is it better to go with a nice high quality hdmi cable?
 
Tonytank said:
while im thinking about it, im running my monitor on a vga cable at the moment, with a hdmi, i think thats right, converter thing, is it better to go with a nice high quality hdmi cable?
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I think you've got your terms mixed up. HDMI is digital audio and video, generally used for high-end televisions. The video signal carried by these is essentially the same as is carried in a DVI cable. DVI is for for carrying digital video signals, usually for computer monitors. Some DVI ports on video cards also carry analog signals. This makes it possible to use an adaptor to feed into an analog cable. These usually have white cable ends. VGA (which is also known by a load of other names) is used for carrying analog video signals. These usually have blue cable ends.

I shall assume you meant that you're using an adaptor to take DVI output at your video card and turn it into VGA which you feed into your monitor. DVI, since it's all digital, should give you the best quality picture assuming your monitor will take such an input.

For the most part all DVI cables are created equal. there are some really terrible ones but most that ship with monitors will do the job well enough. Since it's digital there aren't as many issues regarding signal degradation with which an analog signal would have to contend.
 
my bad yeah, ive seena good one in a local tv store for look 30 quid, seems nice and sturdy, may aswell go for that, assuming there will be a difference in picture...?
 
The multiplier is 9 so the clock speed you'd see at 450 MHz would be 9 * 450 MHz = 4050

It's unlikely that the chip could go that high. Think more along the lines of low-to-mid 3GHz ;)
 
The clock speed is the multiplier x the FSB, with very good air cooling the chip should do around 9x400 (3.6ghz).
 
Hey, ill refer to the Core 2 Duo since thats what your buying.

All Core 2 Duo chips have a max multiplier, lets take the E6600 for instance the Stock speed for this chip is 2.40ghz and the max multiplier is 9,
(so simple 9 divided by 2.4 = 3.75 FSB)

In theory it would be so much easier to raise the multiplier to say 10, very simple way to overclock but on all the Core 2 Duo chips the multiplier is locked upwards so you cant do it this way.

Instead you just raise the FSB (Front Side Bus). So the multiplier is 9 and you raise the FSB to say 4.00 FSB.
(9 x 4 = 3.6ghz) thats your new current speed.

Not the best explanation but i hope it helps.
 
ahh, i see like the old athlon xps

starting to make a wee bit more sense now

so with a decent heatsink i can push this reasonably without any fuss?
 
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