Budget upgrade components

Dutch Guy

Dutch Guy

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In the next month I will get a tax refund so I thought about upgrading my X2 system to something more newer but it also has to be a budget minded upgrade as I don’t use the PC that often, I will be overclocking with watercooling.

These are the components I thought would be good:

Mobo: Abit IP35-E
CPU: Intel E7200
Memory: OCZ 2GB DDR2-800 Platinum2 4-4-4-15

But I have a few (a lot of) questions:
1) Is there a possible incompatibility with my old Enermax 485W PSU?
2) Should I spend a little more and get DDR1066? (or is 1:1 overclocking stable)
3) Is the mobo capable of running 400Mhz FSB or higher?
4) Is the E7200 a good overclocker or should I spend a little more and get a E8400?
5) Any other alternatives you suggest?
 
1. Should be fine, it's ATX2 I think.
2. No need, this chip has a 9.5x multiplier.
3. Should do.
4. Seems a good replacement of the e4x00 series.
5. I liked the P5K series from Asus, and the J&W (OCuk value) have good support on these forums.

Make sure that the motherboard you pick will support half multipliers out of the box.

Seems to be working with a GB P31!

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17869274
 
get the abit IP35 if you intend to overclock, it's meant to be much better than the -E for overclocking.
 
Ben M said:
get the abit IP35 if you intend to overclock, it's meant to be much better than the -E for overclocking.
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I was thinking about that, but what annoys me is that the non E version has a heatpipe cooler and I wanted to change the northbridge cooler to a Thermalright HR05 SLI I have and with the heatpipe cooler I can't do that.

I also looked at the Asus P5K but it is 25 euro more than the Abit IP35-E and has the ATX connector in a crap place.
 
Dutch Guy said:
I was thinking about that, but what annoys me is that the non E version has a heatpipe cooler and I wanted to change the northbridge cooler to a Thermalright HR05 SLI I have and with the heatpipe cooler I can't do that.

I also looked at the Asus P5K but it is 25 euro more than the Abit IP35-E and has the ATX connector in a crap place.
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Well you seem to have looked into this.

I take it that you looked at the ocuk value ip35 pro as well then?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-000-OK&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

And thank you very much melbourne720, I'm glad you like it.
 
With the current low memory prices I also think about getting 4GB of memory but would I get a problem getting it to run with XP Pro and Vista x86 32bit?
 
Dutch Guy said:
But I think I have read that the OS can only use 3GB, wouldn't it give an issue when you have 4GB or will the 4th GB just be unused?
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Youre'r right, because it's 32bit it can't actually see that much RAM.

The maximum is between 3-3.5 gig, but I can't remember the exact figure. Remember that included in that is your video memory as well.

As said before, it is worth putting it in, it doesn't cost very much and you do get more RAM. I've never heard of any negative effects.

Have you considered the OcUK value board i suggested, or does it not have the features you need?
 
Ben M said:
Have you considered the OcUK value board i suggested, or does it not have the features you need?
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I don't live in the UK but on the other side of the North Sea so the value of the value board isn't really for me as the shipping cost will be higher than when I order locally but it does look good.
 
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