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MattandJet

MattandJet

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OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £199.99
(£234.99) £199.99
(£234.99)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £119.99
(£140.99) £119.99
(£140.99)
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA1065) £54.99
(£64.61) £109.98
(£129.22)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Gigabyte GA-X38-DS4 Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £109.99
(£129.24) £109.99
(£129.24)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)


Hi all, I know ive been asking a lot of things on these fourms today, so im nearly ready to order.

just need to know: Will all the above +(WDRaptor/7200.11/700W Modular PSU) be all compatible and good :D lol.

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The HDDs came from here a while back with an Antec 900

the PSU was bought from a shop - PC Earth :P, its a Jeantech 700W Storm, its all they had and I was desperate a few months back - old one blew up :D
 
yeh i see what you mean but I dont want to overclock a lot (im a newbie) so I wanted something that is fast alrdy so I will only have to touch it a bit.

i got 2 of those 2gb kits in my basket lol :d

hehe, so is it all compatible... 100% ... lol

the reason i say this is im scared of it all not working together, so the Crucial Ballistix works in my mobo yeh??


EDIT: one more thing, the motherboard seems to boast about ATI Crossfire (im assuming one 8800 nvidia GTX is okay), but would 2 3870s in CF be better than 1 GTX???)
 
whats wrong?? isnt 700W enough, it says on the site its a Modular ATX2.2 and it has like 28A on one 12V rail... i thought that was good?? lol

if its not then im at a loss with all this computer buisness
 
700W is more then enough for that setup, 500ishW is about the absolute it will really need when everything is OCed and at load.

for RAM make a choice between getting the ballastixs and facing the possiblity of having to RMA them often or getting lower performing RAM and not having to RMA them all the time. saying that, it is true that ballastixs, if you get a good kit are very good and very OC'able. to OC the e8400 to as high as possible pc2-8500 ram is a good investment if you dont want to OC your RAM that much or maybe at all. it about 3GHz is all you want out of *** CPU, then pc2-6400 is more then adequite for that
 
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jak731 said:
700W is more then enough for that setup, 500ishW is about the absolute it will really need when everything is OCed and at load.

for RAM make a choice between getting the ballastixs and facing the possiblity of having to RMA them often or getting lower performing RAM and not having to RMA them all the time. saying that, it is true that ballastixs, if you get a good kit are very good and very OC'able
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what kid would you suggest, I would like 4GB still and perferably at the same speed, 1066.
 
unless you want an FSB of more then 400MHz without OCing your RAM, which using the 9x multiplier on your CPU will give you 3.6GHz, i say get some PC2-6400 RAM such as the OCZ stuff in This week only. PC2-8500 RAM is only needed for a FSB above 400MHz, if you dotn want to OC your RAM.
 
hmm, would you be able to do me a favour and find a good set of 4GB PC8500as well and Ill compare that with the PC6400 youve specified and think about it this evening and order in the morning :d

Thank you!
 
MattandJet said:
hmm, would you be able to do me a favour and find a good set of 4GB PC8500as well and Ill compare that with the PC6400 youve specified and think about it this evening and order in the morning :d

Thank you!
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the ocuk pc8500 is great ram! cheap and powerfull :D

i am running 4gb of it on this rig at the moment and i have had no problems!
 
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