BORING NEW BUILD - WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Greebo · 27 Apr 2008 at 11:48

Finally got my new build sussed. Everything else will be re using as per my spec.

Where I can I will be buying 2nd hand if possible.

Anybody got any suggestions for changes?

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £113.99
(£133.94) £113.99
(£133.94)
Swiftech H2O-220 Apex Ultra+ Watercooling Kit (Socket 462/478/LGA775/754/939/940) £171.99
(£202.09) £171.99
(£202.09)
Crucial Ballistix Tracer RED 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT25664AR804) £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
(£76.36)
Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £102.99
(£121.01) £102.99
(£121.01)
Sub Total : £453.96

Will the heatsink come off the northbridge on the mobo so it can be water cooled? If not, helpful suggestions of alternative mobo's greatly received.

UltraDad · 27 Apr 2008 at 13:32

Hello there

Looks nice but for the same price on the motherboards i would try the DFI or the Abit x38 motherboards, heres the link http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?&groupid=701&catid=5&subid=946&sortby=priceAsc

And for the memory try the GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) or the GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Black Dragon DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GB22GB8500C5DC) which quite a few ppl recommend

Dont know anything about water cooling so gonna leave that to the experts on these forums

Good luck with the build and hope i was a help

Greebo · 27 Apr 2008 at 14:08

Thanks for that, i'kk check out the memory.

Just been offered a Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 Intel X38 plus E8400 for £220. Is this a better option than the current mobo and cpu?

helmutcheese · 27 Apr 2008 at 14:09

I would not buy a Q6600 this late in the day, either a E8000 or a 45nm Quad.

Chimerical · 27 Apr 2008 at 14:10

The E8400 will overclock much further than the Q6600, so better for Games.

The P5K Premium board is an awesome overclocker, but I'm sure that PCI-E 2.0 enabled X38 Gigabyte board is sufficiently good at O/Cing.