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jamie2497

jamie2497

jamie2497

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Hey all,

Just need your opinions on this spec before i order.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £127.99
(£150.39) £127.99
(£150.39)
Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Silver) £68.99
(£81.06) £68.99
(£81.06)
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS ACS3 SILENT 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £224.99
(£264.36) £224.99
(£264.36)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £84.99
(£99.86) £84.99
(£99.86)
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA1065) £99.99
(£117.49) £99.99
(£117.49)
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)

I didnt know whether to change the Ballistix Ram for
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel £140.99

Would the 4GB keep me future proof or would i suffer performance loss at the moment?

Thanks
 
It looks good, no such thing as future proof though. :) Do you regularly run into your page file when working? 2gb is still enough for most and with 4gb you will need a 64bit OS to access all of it but it might be worthwhile if you do use a lot of Ram regularly.
 
Well its mostly for games really, will i see much difference in say battlefield 2 or C+C 3?

Also would the Gigabyte DS3 be a better choice motherboard? :)

Thanks
 
I don't know how much memory either of them uses so I can't really advise any further apart from saying most people seem to have 2gb and get by fine. :)

It probably won't make much of a difference which motherboard you pick as both clock very well and have good features, if you wanted to go for a Gigabyte though make sure it is the DS3P as that is the latest revision with more features than the standard DS3 and all the known bugs should have been ironed out.
 
Ah excellent thanks for your help :)

I don't know much about memory speeds etc but i take it the 2GB stuff would be faster than the 4GB and would possibly help overclock better?
 
I'm not an expert on Ram either but with an E6600 you only need Ram capable of 266.7mhz to run at 2.4ghz (because it is DDR2 that is 533mhz e.g. PC4200 speed) so PC5300/PC5400 is fine for an overclock to around 3ghz (9x multiplier on the CPU x 333mhz Ram speed) and that is still running within rated capacity. If you want to go further then you will probably need better cooling for the CPU and faster Ram might help but then again your Ram may well overclock beyond its rated limits anyway. :)
 
Hmm so you reckon the 4GB stuff would get the E6600 to 3.0ghz (with the right cooling etc :)) and shouldn't be any slower than the 2GB in games?

Many thanks
 
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