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Rage474

Rage474

Rage474

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Hey,
I've been looking for a new pc for a while now and have finally come across a good looking full system on your website. It's the "Ultima OC Complete 8800GT" Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz @ QX6950+ 3.00GHz+ Quad Core DDR2 Complete System.

I have a few questions about it however and help would be appreciated ^^

Basically I don't know very much about building and installing pc's and I was wondering that since its classed as a "Full system" does it come with everything I need? Such as all the necessary wiring and everything fully built inside etc. Basically I need it to be ready to plug in and for me to use it :P.

I live in Northern Ireland and was wondering, since its not mainland UK will it take longer for the delivery to get to me? :D

Help is appreciated ^^

Rage.
 
How do these specs sound guys?
Since im looking for a good pc for as close to £1000 as i can get =D
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO 2.40GHz Quad Core CPU Overclocked too a minimum of 3.00GHz and beyond.
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro Intel approved cooler
- Abit IP35 Intel P35 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- Award winning Corsair 2GB PC2-6400 CAS4 (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 850MHz+) (Note when upgrading to 4GB overclock drops to 3.00GHz on CPU)
- 500GB Seagate 32MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- NVIDIA 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Card
- Pioneer 112DBK 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
- OCZ 600W Next Generation Power Supply
- Logitech S220 2.1 Speaker System - Black
- Samsung SM-226BW 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black
- Saitek Eclipse 2 Illuminated Gaming Keyboard - Blue/Red/Purple
- Razer Krait 1600dpi Professional Gaming Mouse
 
Yeah i know but its complicated :P
ATM thinking about 32bit vista premium / basic tbh, should come pre-installed =D, cause apparantly 64bit has loads of compatability issues :/
Also will get the ram uprade to 4GB since its only like £23 more and it doubles it :D
 
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Hmm I dunno, but would prefere it to be pre-built since I really dont want to screw it up :P, plus this system comes with a pretty nice monitor, keyboard and mouse :D.
A friend of mine told me about 64bit vista, said it has compatability issues, does it make much of a difference compared to 32bit?
 
Thanks dude, but since its a complete system there won't be any building involved will there? Thanks for the delivery info Tweak, im in County Antrim myself ^^. When its delivered will the system be basically ready to use? Once i plug it in and wire up the monitor, keyboard, mouse etc.
 
Thanks a lot for the help, have re-assured me ^^. Will probly be buying it soon. Seemed like a really good offer for one which isnt custom built. Maybe the graphics card isnt the most powerful, but i suppose its possible to replace it later or maybe get another and use them in SLI.
Since the processor is OC'ed it wont overheat too much will it?
 
KK thanks, I suppose that if I ever wanted a graphics upgrade I could always use another better nvidia card when the time comes, but for the minute I'm pretty happy with this system :D
Can anyone tell me what rpm the HDD gets, im guessing its around 7200 but i cant see it anywhere :(

Sorry for all these questions btw, just want to make sure I make the right choice :D
 
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UKDTweak said:
The freezer Pro 7 is a good cooler, but not great with quads, my q6600 is a 1.275 vid and runs 3220mhz at 1.335v (temps hit 70deg), to get higher needs lots more volts, 3500mhz needs 1.45+v and got too hot with the freezer on mine (temps over 75deg), so i changed to an OCZ Vindicator 2 and dropped temps by 6-7deg, but still too warm for every day use.
Note: no two quads will clock the same, you may be lucky and get a good clocker, and the IP35 Pro is a great board for this, as for SLI, no is does not support it, but like me you can add a second card to offload the Physx stuff, so if you decided to get a bigger card in the future you can keep your old one for the physx :)
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Hmmm, ok thanks for the advice. Since its only overclocked to 3.0GHz (since I got the 4GB of ram) it shouldnt overheat too much, if at all, right?

And yeah, so your saying that in the future i could get a second card even though the board doesnt support SLI? :/ <----Confused :D
 
Ben M said:
Sli is two or more Nvidia cards. Crossfire is two or more ati cards.

Intel chipsets (p35, p45, X38, X48) support crossfire.

Nvidia chipsets (6*0i 7*0i) support sli

The p35 boards support crossfire where one pci-e runs at 16x and the other lane at 4x, this holds back performance. The p45 boards support 8x and 8x, which doesn't reduce performance much from the 16x-16x that the X38 and X48 boards offer.
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I see now =D, will leave the updating of my graphics card for another time. When the time comes will just get a totally new card, depends on whats out at the time.

OK last question. Should i go for:
32bit Vista Basic
64bit Vista Basic
32bit Vista Premium
or 64bit Vista Premium
Am mainly gonna use this pc for gaming etc so compatability means a lot, as well as performance.
 
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