Cheap, SFF and Dual core spec!

[Raikiri]

MB-084-AB Abit LG-81 Intel 945G Micro ATX (Socket 775) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-084-AB)
£64.95 £64.95
CP-116-IN Intel Pentium 4 805 Dual Core "LGA775 Smithfield" 2.6GHz (533FSB) - Retail (CP-116-IN)
£79.50 £79.50
BG-173-AS **B Grade** OcUK Value Aspire X-Qpack Cube Case - Silver (BG-173-AS) 1
£48.50 £48.50
MY-030-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB5300DC) (MY-030-GL)
£64.95 £64.95
HD-000-HI Hitachi Deskstar 7K80 NCQ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (0A30356) (HD-000-HI)
£31.95 £31.95
Subtotal £289.85
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £52.47
Total £352.27



What do you think? I'm normally on the other end of these threads but as I know very little about intel, SFF cases and dual core I thought I would ask in here.

Cheers for any help

(Thats pretty much my budget btw, will be overclocking and possibly upgrading to a dedicated graphics card later)

 

[Raikiri]

any reason for going Intel?

Try and make a small form factor, dual core AMD for £350. You wont do it, cheapest CPU is over twice the cost of the intel and I already have a decent gaming system. This will be mostly for encoding/minor gaming later on and possibly lan parties. (Just shove my 7800GT in there )


Edit: And this CPU in particular seems to be a very good clocker

 

[Raikiri]

hehe fair enough, just wondered, had noticed it was dual core although a slow dual core. How does it compare performance wise to a Venice single core though?

Erm, at stock not well. But most are doing about 3.8ghz on stock volts and 4ghz with a little bit of extra voltage. Which is 800mhz FSB so it should be 33% faster than the Pentium D 830 at that. I reckon it would equal my 2.5ghz venice with the overclock in most things but lose out in games, although the added advantage of dual core for newer games will certainly equal the playing field and maybe tip it int he Pentiums Favour.

I would prefer the X2 3800+ for a system, but I can't afford it and my own system is performing just fine so I don't see the point in upgrading it.