I'm building a cheap system for a project and looking to get the costs down. I'm reusing an old PATA DVD and not so old but spare SATA HDD.
That leaves me needing the rest for the system unit. This is what I have in mind:
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) (£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail (£49.34)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (£65.79)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) (£32.89)
Asus GeForce EN7300GT-HTD Silent 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£41.11)
Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU (£46.99)
Total with shipping, £266.60
I want to overclock to over 3GHz.
Questions - Is that MB/CPU/RAM the best bang per buck? I want to use a P35 board. I could save a little by getting the 1.6GHz CPU but will that make >3GHz just a bit harder?
How is overclocking with that MB? I hear power might be a problem?
That leaves me needing the rest for the system unit. This is what I have in mind:
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) (£17.61)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail (£49.34)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (£65.79)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) (£32.89)
Asus GeForce EN7300GT-HTD Silent 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (£41.11)
Antec NSK 4480B Mini Tower Case (Black) - 380W Earth Watts PSU (£46.99)
Total with shipping, £266.60
I want to overclock to over 3GHz.
Questions - Is that MB/CPU/RAM the best bang per buck? I want to use a P35 board. I could save a little by getting the 1.6GHz CPU but will that make >3GHz just a bit harder?
How is overclocking with that MB? I hear power might be a problem?