advice making new computer

[beejjacobs]

You confident putting it together? Also we all get the upgrade bug - I constantly want to upgrade!

EDIT: also have you actually ordered? Only this PSU is on offer:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-000-XF
Today only and only 6 left.

 

[noenum pax]

I got the putting it together sorted i got the guy down the road who owns a computer shop coming to put it together and overclock it all for £40

 

[beejjacobs]

Nice. you could do it yourself? Honestly we can help you and there are plenty of guides? I'd build it for free - where you from? lol

 

[noenum pax]

i am from birmingham icould possibly do it myself with building it but overclocking i definately do not feel comfortable with 1 tiny voltage error and the cpu gpu ram etc is fried

 

[beejjacobs]

lol. I'm at Birmingham at Uni

Yeah that is true, but you won't make any errors if you take your time! Up to you, just wanted to say it's an option!

 

[noenum pax]

i could have gone uni but decided not to because of the huge price increases

 

[beejjacobs]

Configure your trust (to the right of all your posts)

Yeah it's very expensive now!

 

[noenum pax]

but i suppose going at looking at some videos and tutorials etc can't really do much harm

 

[beejjacobs]

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18046396

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227651

 

[noenum pax]

nice tutorials looking through them now

 

[noenum pax]

humm just finshed the overclocking tutorial and that seems fairly straight foreward altho i do wnated what baseclocking is

 

[beejjacobs]

Basically there are two things which determine the speed of the CPU. The base clock and the multiplier.

e.g. 100MHz base clock (for a CPU like yours I believe) and x40 multiplier gives 4Ghz.

For the Sandybridge CPUs like yours, you don't change the base clock and this can damage it (because of the onboard graphics I think) so you just up the multiplier.

 

[noenum pax]

ahh i understand i will remember this

 

[noenum pax]

just finished the pc building intro also wich leaves me wondering where my 5 fans are goign to be plugged into

 

[beejjacobs]

Specs fine, may or may not need a 8pin ATX extension cable, depends if the cable on the PSU is long enough to reach the motherboard after routing behind the case.

Tips to help you build,

from another thread, these might be useful too!

(if you enable trust, then I can email you)

 

[noenum pax]

i am not too sure how to new to the forums i did try adding you as friend tho

 

[beejjacobs]

Click that

 

[noenum pax]

done i think ;P

 

[beejjacobs]

Cool. Message sent! Sorry, did you say if you had ordered your stuff yet?