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FatRakoon

FatRakoon

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I fancy splashing a bit on a whole new system.

Im half and half on a Quad for this, but might just stick with Dual, I dont know yet? - either way, Im looking at spending up to about £160 on the CPU.

RAM I think I will go for 4GB Geil as this is what Im using in the DS3 and its cheap as hell and Im happy with it.

GFX is almost defo an OCUK 8800GTX 768MB which is under the £300 mark and thats fine.

The Mobo... Anyone recommend any good ones for cheap?

I will be overclocking. Not yet, but eventually, and so the board needs to clock.

Can anyone price me up something?

Im looking at a few things, but Im also seeing that this or that does not like the other and so on...

Im hoping my top whack to be under £700... Ideally closer to £600 to be honest cos I just spent over a grand and my bikes so Im a tad skint now.

Thanks all.
 
Its ok mate... I got your basics through OCUK sending me the EMail tellign me your gab.

Most of it, I dont need.

Not an option with the GFX card... I am splashign out and getting the fastest thing I can can... I got a pair of 320MB GTS cards and a single GTX card and the speed difference is shocking and so I think that stuff it, I'll go the whoel hog this time.
The Case, HDs, DVD etc are all sorted out as I have these ready. Im going to rob my daughters LianLi back and give her a Pyong cheng £2.99 job

However, the specs that you originally gave me has certain got me a taster... I will adjust a tad and stick to that mostly.

Thanks mate.
 
This would hopefully give you a fairly decent system with overclocking potential although there aren't too many places you could cut back given your stated requirements. :)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £27.99
(£32.89) £55.98
(£65.78)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM £135.99
(£159.79) £135.99
(£159.79)
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £244.99
(£287.86) £244.99
(£287.86)
Sub Total : £536.94
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £95.53
Total : £641.42
 
Ok, £641?

Looks ok.

I have 4x512MB Geil here doing nothing. I will probably use that for now, so that gets the total just below £600???

Ok, thats great mate, thanks a lot.
 
Just to check, is your 4x512mb DDR2? If not then I'm afraid you can't use it with that motherboard.

You could get it closer to £600 or even under it if you went for Core2Duo but that would be going for an E21x0 chip and a fair bit of overclocking to make it totally worthwhile. :)
 
Yes, its my Geil 4x512MB that I bought to see if the DS3 would be ok with 4 of them ( Rather than getting 4x1GB you see )

So, yes, they are 4x512MB and they are 100% identical sticks.

DUAL v QUAD

Personally I{ am not all that blown away by quad. It does not make things any faster, a select few yes, but overall no... However... Future proofing etc, be silly not to take the plunge

On a side note, can XP Home access quad cores?

I seem to remember that it was ok with dual core, but not 2 physical processors, so, how does it fare with quad? o r is it ok because its still in the single chip?
 
Quad cores can still be optimised for but I agree at the moment it isn't hugely beneficial for most people.

I'm afraid I'm not too sure about XP Home and quad cores, I think it would work but I can't say for sure. Maybe have a look in the Windows sub-forum?
 
FatRakoon said:
DUAL v QUAD

Personally I{ am not all that blown away by quad. It does not make things any faster, a select few yes, but overall no... However... Future proofing etc, be silly not to take the plunge

On a side note, can XP Home access quad cores?

I seem to remember that it was ok with dual core, but not 2 physical processors, so, how does it fare with quad? o r is it ok because its still in the single chip?
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Both Windows XP Pro and Home will support both dual core and quad cores processors as long as they are on the same processors.

Incidentally, as far as Microsoft is concerned, even a quad-core CPU only counts as one "processor" for licensing purposes. So even if you're running Windows XP Home or Windows Vista Home Basic or Premium, which all only allow you to have one "processor", you'll still be able to use all four cores in a Core 2 Quad
 
Ok, cheers for that you guys.

I was almost sure it was ok, but there was still that nagging issue.

Not that it matters for me personally as I use XP64 as my main OS ( which is pro ) and Vista upstairs ( which it out of sight out of mind lol )
 
If you are gonna spec Fatty a system, leave the Cooler off of it, he can pinch one of mine (Titan Amanda L, TT Sonic Tower, TT Big Typhoon etc) when he's over here in a few weeks picking up other bits.

Have a load of mounting bits for all, so you can fit it on any system you care to buy mate...
 
Well, so far, Im looking more at this :-


Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2VU6674GK)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM

Seems to be about the best I can see at a fairly good price... kind of...

I got 4x512MB Geil here, but hell, at 70 notes for 4GB you just gotta do it, although to be honest, with DDR, I have had some issues with OCZ in some boards... If anyone can verify that this RAM is ok in this board, that will be spanking.

I think that the rest of it is fine, correct me if Im wrong, but the CPU works fine in that board does it not?

InSanCen.
Thanks mate... Every little helps.
Dig out the stuff like I said, and let me know what you need off me and we'll organise a date for me to pop round.

PS Side note... I now have 4 Discs that are all knackered and 3 swingarms so *** GS is taking a tad longer than I hoped... And a tad more expensive, but hey, you want to hear it run mate... It sounds like a bike, not like the poncy ZZR ( Which has developed a starter problem all of a sudden??? )

Ok, back to the PCs stuff... Titan Amanda?
 
FatRakoon said:
Ok, back to the PCs stuff... Titan Amanda?
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that'll be me having a Blonde moment... Titan Vanessa L (Doh!)

The one I was waiting for when we pushed the XP1700 to 2.7ish on air under the Sonic Tower.

Replaced it with the Watercooling now, and only need 1 other cooler... Google it, plenty of images (though i have ripped off the gay butterfly sticker!).
 
You might want to consider getting the 8800GT over the 8800GTX, it might have around 10% less power but for the drop in price it's really worth it. And it's apparently possible to clock the 8800GT so it's as fast as or sometimes even faster than a GTX. And with the new 8800GTS coming out soon it might be worth waiting for that because chances are it'll be cheaper than the GTX and at least as fast as it. I suppose it depends how long you can wait :)
 
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