Good PC?

The GTX OC2 is complete waste of money, just get the standard version and clock it to OC2 speeds. The warrarnty is the same weather you get the BFG OC or OC2 version.

You do not need 8500 rated Memory. Get the Crucial Ballistix 5300 C3 Memory, it will clock to 1000MHZ+ with little problems.

Highly recomend getting 4GB of Memory, yes you will need a 64bit O/S but thats no problem at all. Buy Vista Home Premium 64bit.

Dual Boot Vista with XP, theirs really no reason why you shouldent do that to be honest. You get to experience Vista fully but if you do run into some problems you can just as easy switch back to XP. You never know Vista could work flawlessly for you. Its got the potenial to be a fantastic O/S.

I would personally stick with just a DDR2 motherboard for now. One, becuase the DDR2 and DDR3 motherboards, their are only 2 DDR3 memory dimms. Two, by the time DDR3 becomes productive enough to buy, their will be newer, better motherboards out. Three, since it will take a while for DDR3 to become mainstream are you really going to switch 4GB of DDR2 memory for 2 GB of DDR3, thus going back to my first point. :)
 
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shaffaaf27 said:
Why not. the waranty and extra are worht it.
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Its really not, BFG's warranty is lifetime anyway. The OC2 is just a higher clocked OC1, no difference in the actual GPU core. Its just a marketing strategy! Making people think that the OC2 will be able to hit higher overclocks as its standard clock is higher! ;)
 
Thermaltake said:
Its really not, BFG's warranty is lifetime anyway. The OC2 is just a higher clocked OC1, no difference in the actual GPU core. Its just a marketing strategy! Making people think that the OC2 will be able to hit higher overclocks as its standard clock is higher! ;)
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OOOPPPSS...

i thought he was taking about the OC, not the OC2 . my bad :D
 
stickroad; thanks for the advice man! just what i needed :D
cheers mate :)

ok i will probably get that ram suggested earlier, could you please suggest me any P35 motherboard then? ddr2 one, i completely agree with you on when ddr3 becomes bigger, there will be better motherboards aswell.

i will probably dual boot i don't know and don't really care since xp is my favourite os.

thanks.
 
can anyone suggest me a good case? i like the 900, but i have one already in another pc, and it is crap to setup. it would be cool to have a new case with good cooling, and can anuyoen suggest me an easy to install cpu cooler for the q6600?
thanks
 
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU is a nice case with a gd psu
and the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro is a good and easy to install cpu cooler
 
if you are overclocking the quad get the thermalright ultra 120 extra cooler. also get the q6600 pro (energy efficient). as for the xfi music, just use the onboard sound unless you are gunna pay £200 for the highend xfi, onboard is nice.
 
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case
lol looks crappy
and sounds.

any good ones? what about lian li?
do you know when the energy effecient q6600 is coming out?

cheers
 
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