Help with picking hardware

Wizzfizz

Wizzfizz

Wizzfizz

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Looking at spending around £550 - £600.

I need the following items as i've got the rest: -

CPU (Intel
Motherboard
Ram (4gig)

The main use for the system will be gaming.

I've not upgraded since 2004 and i'm still using a socket 754 setup. Any help would be appreciated.



Thanks.
 
You just want those three items? If so I'd be considering these, you can go more expensive but I'd struggle to justify it unless I was overclocking by quite a bit.

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Platinum Series DDR2 (OCZ2P10664GK) £54.99
(£64.61) £54.99
(£64.61)
Asus P5Q-E Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £84.99
(£99.86) £84.99
(£99.86)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail £184.99
(£217.36) £184.99
(£217.36)
Sub Total : £324.97
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £58.31
Total : £391.53
 
Ok cheers for the setup. So if I was looking for something to overclock with. What should I be looking at?

Also I was looking at the CPU :)


cheers
 
Either of the two mentioned CPU's are decent for overclocking. The Dual Core one though is supposedly outstanding. The motherboard and RAM suggested would be fine, just get a good cooler such as the Thermalright Ultra 120 :)
 
Personally I moved from a 3Ghz Quad to a 3.6Ghz Dual and found my system ran cooler, quieter and faster in most scenarios. Quad is the technology for the future, not really come into it's own yet though in my eyes.
 
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