Could someone spec me up pls

samat2001 · 31 Mar 2007 at 13:09

Thanks for all your input guys...just a bit nervous of pressing 'order' as it's quite a lot of money!

furnace · 31 Mar 2007 at 13:30

I'd do this. The motherboard will let you set the memorys clock speed and forget about it, so you can concentrate on getting the CPU overclocked and not worry about overclocking your ram

Also, its cooling is a little nicer.

Also there's a nice PSU here, modular too so less cable mess.

The G.Skill ram is most likely fine even if you did wanna overclock - because it has CL4 timings you can loosen them up to 5's and overclock. I dont know if theres even a lot of a performance increase overclocking your RAM anyway, unless the odd few benchmark points mean a lot to you, or you have slow ram (which this isn't).

If you've already ordered now though, don't regret because the spec you've said is still an awesome spec

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-000-SB
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-049-SE
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB ST3500641AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-128-IN
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-150-AS
Asus P5B Deluxe (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CD-054-SO
Sony AW-G170AB2 18x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer - (Black) OEM

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-035-BG
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-065-AN
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-017-GS
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 PK PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-004-CS
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK)

Total all inc.
£1,235.91.

samat2001 · 31 Mar 2007 at 13:37

Stupid of me not to mention this before - I most probably won't be doing any overclocking of any kind...

Cupra · 31 Mar 2007 at 14:01

but thats a waste of a c2d

samat2001 · 31 Mar 2007 at 14:20

I guess so, but I really wouldn't know what I'd be doing. I guess I could do some entry level stuff but not the heavy stuff I've been reading about. With the above cooler (the Tuniq), would you be able to overclock without adding other stuff to it?

Cupra · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:55

personaly id get this

the 2 noctula's are for the nb and sb as the sb gets toasty on big oc's and its good to make sure

and its £250 under budget

so a moniter or 2gb of ram and vista could be added

furnace · 31 Mar 2007 at 15:57

Yep. Tuniq Tower is great for overclocking

Honstely dude, overclocking is stupidly easy now..! Yeah you have to learn a few things, but dont let it put you off - you just have to learn a little bit of maths so you understand how much you're overclocking by... For some reason that scares people off :confused:

I haven't heard one person kill a Core2Duo from overclocking, and there have been some serious newbies clocking their C2D's without much knowledge

Apart from a couple of people who tried to pull their IHS off their processor... But you wont be doing that

EDIT: I've written an overclocking guide but it's a bit of a read, so won't post it unless you want it?