Build check up

Crashmaster07 · 22 Jul 2007 at 21:48

Right, upgrading from an SN25P and moving accross to a C2D based uATX solution.
So far I'm looking at

Silverstone TJ08B uATX tower - ~£60

520W Corsair HX PSU

Asus P5k-VM iG33

I already have 2GB ballistix 6400, hard drive, DVD drive graphics card etc.

In term of processor, I'm building up the machine anticipating a 45nm Penryn processor, so for now what CPU do you guys recomend going for to keep me going (thking along E6320 or even a 2140/2160)? Consider I'm moving from an opteron 165, hopefully see an improvement what ever!

Cheers for the advise

Dan Chambers

Kanifee · 23 Jul 2007 at 10:16

well the big factor will be are you overclocking?
not sure what the asus bored is like but ocuk have just got in the g33m-ds2r and the new f4a bios has 1:1 mem divider for anything over an 800fsb cpu and people have reported the gigabyte bored as a strong overclocker.

Its_Me · 23 Jul 2007 at 10:22

Gigabyte is ok, price is a bit steep :rolleyes:

but nothign wrong with the Asus board.

if your going for a 800mhz FSB CPU, deffinitely avoid the gigabyte( for now) as there seems little chance of a 1:1 memory option for 800mhz CPU's (with would rule out the 21xx and E4x00 series)

Tute · 23 Jul 2007 at 11:28

If you want to be a (little) crazy, i'm sure I saw pics of that case somewhere with someone squeezing a Ninja CPU cooler in there. :eek:

Crashmaster07 · 23 Jul 2007 at 11:49

Yeah, I'm looking to overclock the machine, why I was looking at the 2140/60 as I hear there suppose to overclock relatively well?

Apologise for my lack of C2D knowledge, but when you say 800MHz FSB, I presume that means a "quad pumped" speed of 1600MHz?

Tute · 23 Jul 2007 at 11:55

No, the 800MHz is already Quad pumped.

In terms of actual FSB, it's running at 200MHz. i.e any overclock you do will start from a point of 200MHz, not 800MHz.

It works like the 1066FSB C2Ds do, they're already quad-pumped, the speed "non-quad-pumped" is 266MHz for those.

And with regards as what to buy, I think the general opinion is that if you're looking for a cheap chip to overclock, then something like the E2160 would suit you fine (take it over the E2140 for the extra multiplier, it's worth it for £7).