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[Garyj881]

Hi, looking at building a budget core 2 duo system and wanted to make sure i havent missed anything b4 i buy.

e4300 cpu - £77.54
Artic cooling freezer pro - £17.61
Asus P5B - £76.56
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 £123.36
Asus GeForce 8600 GT - £105.74
Coolermaster RS550 550W - £82.24
Antec Nine Hundred £64.61

Total £547.66 + carriage inc vat

Gary

 

[Garyj881]

OK thanks guys.

Firstly i have two 200gb sata 72k seagate hdd so im there there.

I can afford to get the 8800 (i think) but would the X1950 support DX10?

I have looked at both the DS3/4 and P5B motherboards and to be honest will decide on the day.

I have a budget of around £600 inc delivery, and that doesnt include things like case fans, as5 cpu paste etc so reall £550 is my budget.

Thanks Gary.

 

[Garyj881]

OK that looks good apart from the memory,s houldnt i be going for atleast 6400 memory and what about the psu shouldnt i go for a minimum of 600W for a 8800 GFX card?

Thanks again

 

[Garyj881]

Ok guys again thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

So ill stick with that power supply, the memory im still not sure cos if it still oc to the speed of the 6400 and beyond, wouldnt the 6400 run much more smoothly and be faster as standard for little extra?

Now the mobo im thinking towards the P5B as a origionally said nut quite a few are saying go for the DS3 now whats the real difference?

Do they both overclock as good as each other?

I heard one guy said he was running the DS3 and it went kaput on him so changed to the P5B and noticed an improvement in performance(could be due to it being faulty) so is there any benchmarks to compare ?

EDIT:
Ive just read that the heat sinks on the North / south bridge of the P5B are not copper but aluminium and that they are very picky with ram when it comes down to oc'ing so the DS3 it is me thinks.

Now for the DS3 i think i read something about a bios update or a revision on the mob is this true ?

Gary