Advice on spec

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Wr@ith

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CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN) £116.99
MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI) £91.99
MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL) £159.99


just need a new hard drive, graphics card and a power unit that would fit well with this set up, would this spec work as a good gaming board for a while at least? also im not much into overclocking as ive never done it before so would other stuff be better suited?
 
Those are all good components, a Conroe does rather invite overclocking though as quite a few 6300 chips will allow their speed to be doubled particularly on a good motherboard like the DS3.

You haven't posted a budget for the remaining parts but in terms of graphics cards I find it difficult to look beyond either an X1800XT or X1900XT for gaming. Hard drive is also about as simple, the Seagate 7200.10 range offers decent price, good capacity and great performance. PSU you should be looking somewhere in the range 450w+ and take your pick from Enermax, FSP, Seasonic & Tagan - any one would do as they are in no particular order.
 
ah sorry a budget was thinking about another £300 on the rest of the components and is there a good guide or something that helps explain some stuff about overclocking?

Thanks for the info aswell semi-pro waster
 
There is an overclocking sub-forum on here, Jokester has written a basic guide on overclocking available here which ought to give you a good start but also take a read of the sub-forum and the CPU forum for further ideas.

£300 gives you a few options but given the hard drive will cost around £60-70, the PSU roughly the same for a quality model then that will leave you around £160 or so for a graphics card. The X1800XT 256mb was £140 last time I looked so you have around £20 to buy yourself some beers to celebrate afterwards :D
 
how about if i add another tenner to that 20 quid i got spare and go for
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-CO) this card?

how about this HD and PSU

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-078-SE)

Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-025-EN)

would they fit in pretty well too?
 
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I'd say go for it, I can't recall offhand exactly how much of an improvement there is by going from an X1800XT to an X1900XT but with the price difference being relatively small I'd reckon it worthwhile and you do get double the Ram :)

//edit just saw the other two parts you want, it should make an excellent system there.
 
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