Check my spec please!

hp7909 · 20 Jul 2006 at 11:04

Beenom said:
Yes mate, the drive will be empty . Is it a good idea to make partitions for the OS, applications and games? Would that be sensible?

Yes, very

Beenom · 20 Jul 2006 at 12:56

Hmm im unsure of what CPU Cooler to get now, I've heard that the TT Big Typhoon is difficult to install? I want my first build to be relatively easy

(Which is understandable!) so what else could I get? That performs well and is quite easy to install. Thanks

hp7909 · 20 Jul 2006 at 13:08

Beenom said:
Hmm im unsure of what CPU Cooler to get now, I've heard that the TT Big Typhoon is difficult to install? I want my first build to be relatively easy (Which is understandable!) so what else could I get? That performs well and is quite easy to install. Thanks

I believe there's none, i.e. all are not 'easy' to install. Installing the heatsink isn't easy because of the amount of force/pressure you have to use, never know if its too much or too little & its always a case of the latter though it feels like too much :confused:

Beenom · 20 Jul 2006 at 13:54

hp7909 said:
I believe there's none, i.e. all are not 'easy' to install. Installing the heatsink isn't easy because of the amount of force/pressure you have to use, never know if its too much or too little & its always a case of the latter though it feels like too much

Hmm alright i'll stick with the big typhoon then, if the worst comes to the worst i'll have to use the measly stock cooler

. Hopefully it won't happen though

shodan · 20 Jul 2006 at 15:10

Beenom said:
Hmm alright i'll stick with the big typhoon then, if the worst comes to the worst i'll have to use the measly stock cooler . Hopefully it won't happen though

Hey, there's nothing wrong with a nice measly stock cooler!

Isn't there?

Beenom · 20 Jul 2006 at 15:36

shodan said:
Hey, there's nothing wrong with a nice measly stock cooler!

Isn't there?

There is if you wanna overclock!!!

. Anyway i've been reading, it doesn't seem that hard!

and there's always the trusty :rolleyes:

intel cooler if anything should go wrong

shodan · 20 Jul 2006 at 15:43

Beenom said:
There is if you wanna overclock!!! . Anyway i've been reading, it doesn't seem that hard! and there's always the trusty intel cooler if anything should go wrong

Yeah, I know I'll probably get burned at the stake for saying this in the 'overclockers uk' forums, but I'd prefer to just build a fast PC and be happy with it rather than overclock and constantly worry about something breaking.

I am a compulsive worrier y'see!

Ah yes, I can just see the angry mob coming over the horizon now

Beenom · 20 Jul 2006 at 15:49

shodan said:
Yeah, I know I'll probably get burned at the stake for saying this in the 'overclockers uk' forums, but I'd prefer to just build a fast PC and be happy with it rather than overclock and constantly worry about something breaking.

I am a compulsive worrier y'see!

Ah yes, I can just see the angry mob coming over the horizon now

Ah yeah thats understandable of course, but I want to atleast get my E6600 upto X6800 speeds

. Get some more juice out of it, woohoo!

hp7909 · 20 Jul 2006 at 16:59

shodan said:
Yeah, I know I'll probably get burned at the stake for saying this in the 'overclockers uk' forums, but I'd prefer to just build a fast PC and be happy with it rather than overclock and constantly worry about something breaking.

I am a compulsive worrier y'see!

Ah yes, I can just see the angry mob coming over the horizon now

You not the only one m8

I underclock mine

Still performs well even when watching DVDs, DivXs, etc. For that & other purposes like surfing, why have it at some crazy speed (noise)? Time when I really wish for more speed is when encoding & that's why I get excited about new stuff like Conroe not only because of overclockability but new improvements, lower TDP, etc making them fly without breaking sweat :cool:

shodan · 21 Jul 2006 at 20:18

hp7909, I noticed you have a separate partition for the page file. Does this improve performance?

Is there a reason you put it on a different physical drive to your system partition?

shodan · 22 Jul 2006 at 20:15

pssst....hp7909

hp7909 · 23 Jul 2006 at 06:30

shodan said:
pssst....hp7909

You know the stickies at the top of each Hardware sub-forum are quite useful

Referring to this: Pagefile on a separate partition it feels slightly faster/responsive especially when a-lot of memory has to be used. But my other reason for having it separate is to keep XP partition smaller (not over 20GB - pagefile's about 2GB, separate partition means I can keep it static) & making backup up of that (XP) partition is easier/faster :cool:

shodan · 23 Jul 2006 at 10:36

hp7909 said:
You know the stickies at the top of each Hardware sub-forum are quite useful

Referring to this: Pagefile on a separate partition it feels slightly faster/responsive especially when a-lot of memory has to be used. But my other reason for having it separate is to keep XP partition smaller (not over 20GB - pagefile's about 2GB, separate partition means I can keep it static) & making backup up of that (XP) partition is easier/faster

ok Thanks