Buying an E6600 System - Which Components

Whytey · 13 Dec 2006 at 13:44

Buying an E6600 System - Which Components To Get?

I've decided to get an e6600 rather than spending more on the e6700

I have around £720 to spend
If there's enough money left that will help towards buying my graphics card that would be awesome!

CPU :
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600

CPU Cooler :
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler / Scythe Ninja Plus

Motherboard :
Asus P5B Deluxe / Gigabyte 965P DS3 / Intel 965P LT Motherboard / MSI 975X PowerUP Edition / Or anything a little cheaper

Memory :
2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C4 DDR2 / 2GB G.Skill PC2-6400C4 DDR2 / 2GB GeIL PC2-6400C4 DDR2 / Or another type

PSU :
Corsair, Akasa or FSP 520w/620w

Hard Drive :
300GB/400GB SATA II - Samsung Maybe

Case :
No idea which case to get possibly a Lian-Li
One that will be good for an 8800

Case Fans (If they are not included):
What type of fans should i get?

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My Current System

CPU - AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ 2.4GHz
Graphics Card - NVIDIA GeForce 6800 128mb
Motherboard - DFI Lanparty UT NF3 250gb
Memory - GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5
Hard Drive - Western Digital x2 120GB & 250GB
Power Supply - 400W Gold Plated (Cheap PSU)
Fans - x2 120mm
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steve258 · 13 Dec 2006 at 17:15

Cooler:
Both are nice but if you want to save some cash then Arctic Freezer 7 pro is the choice.

Mobo:
P5B Deluxe is the obvious top choice, if you want to spare some cash towards a graphics card then go for the DS3.

RAM:
Probably G.Skill or Corsair, was gonna say GEIL but there are many failure cases around here recently.

PSU:
I'd go for the Corsair / Seasonic 520W

Case:
I really like the Lian Li PC7, thinking of getting one myself, comes with 1 intake and 1 exhaust fan so should be sufficient.

Phyre · 13 Dec 2006 at 17:17

Well you'll really want to get a graphics card, otherwise the 6800 will bottleneck it. What card? I don't really know

steve258 · 13 Dec 2006 at 17:29

ummm all the above will cost £700 shipped so if you can drop the cpu to a 6300 you can squeeze in a 7900GS.

Whytey · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:34

Well i am going to be selling this computer (the system spec i mentioned in my first post) i've had it for about a year or two now

Whytey · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:36

Phyre said:
Well you'll really want to get a graphics card, otherwise the 6800 will bottleneck it. What card? I don't really know

I am not going to be using my 6800 in my new machine as its AGP plus i am hoping to sell it with my current system this week

Whytey · 13 Dec 2006 at 18:37

steve258 said:
ummm all the above will cost £700 shipped so if you can drop the cpu to a 6300 you can squeeze in a 7900GS.

thanks but no thanks

Whytey · 14 Dec 2006 at 14:25

How does this sound

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
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Total : £762.43
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=)

steve258 · 14 Dec 2006 at 14:47

Very nice, no probs at all, perhaps use the cash you get for your old parts for a new graphics card??

Whytey · 14 Dec 2006 at 15:15

Yes thats what i am going to do... how much money do you think i will get for this computer i have had it for about 1/2 years now

Still got all the boxes/manuals/drivers etc..

Slight problem with the cpu fan it can run slow at times and the PSU fan does not run at the speed it should do

Would it matter if i got the graphics card at a later time say after i installed the OS?

steve258 · 14 Dec 2006 at 15:37

Assuming you will be selling your current HDDs too??
Is that a skt754 A64??

I'd say £250 to be conservative, add a little extra and you can have yourself a nice 8800GTS.

Windows won't ask you to activate again for upgrading your graphics card if that is what you mean?? :confused:

Whytey · 14 Dec 2006 at 15:56

steve258 said:
Assuming you will be selling your current HDDs too??
Is that a skt754 A64??

I am not selling my current HDDs as i've got quite a lot of data that i need on both drives and its skt745.

Windows won't ask you to activate again for upgrading your graphics card if that is what you mean??

What i mean is won't there be any conflicts/errors etc if i am putting new hardware in and installing drivers after the OS is installed?

steve258 · 14 Dec 2006 at 16:10

There souldn't be as long as you don't swap out the whole motherboard / CPU, in which case windows will BSOD in boot screen, you should be able to upgrade video cards without any problem. Just make sure you have the previous video drivers completely uninstalled.