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jongeeone

jongeeone

jongeeone

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Hi, looking to build a new pc for myself and i was wondering if this is any good

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN)
£99.99 £99.99
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI)
£104.99 £104.99
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB6400UDC) (MY-057-GL)
£81.99 £81.99
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 80GB 6V080E0 SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-095-MD)
£24.99 £24.99
BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-019-BG)
£99.99 £99.99
Subtotal £411.95
VAT £72.10
Total £484.05
 
jongeeone said:
Hi, looking to build a new pc for myself and i was wondering if this is any good

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM (CP-135-IN)
£99.99 £99.99
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI)
£104.99 £104.99
GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX21GB6400UDC) (MY-057-GL)
£81.99 £81.99
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 80GB 6V080E0 SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-095-MD)
£24.99 £24.99
BFG GeForce 7600 GT OC 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-019-BG)
£99.99 £99.99
Subtotal £411.95
VAT £72.10
Total £484.05
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thats pretty much what i'm looking at myself, though i'm after 2gig of Ram. Looks a good set up :)
 
jongeeone said:
{snip}Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 80GB 6V080E0 SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-095-MD){snip}
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Opinion on the Maxtor's in the last few months has not been good, lots of failures, etc :( I'd go for the Samsung SpinPoint P HD080HJ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-023-SA) (here) :)

If your planning to do some heavy gaming, have to go for 2GB RAM (don't need PC6400/800MHz if not overclocking).
 
You don't appear to have a CPU cooler in there, the CPU is OEM so comes without. Is there any particular reason for picking the DS4? As far as I am aware the DS3 offers the same features apart from the dual PCI-E slots for Crossfire and is cheaper.
 
semi-pro waster said:
You don't appear to have a CPU cooler in there, the CPU is OEM so comes without. Is there any particular reason for picking the DS4? As far as I am aware the DS3 offers the same features apart from the dual PCI-E slots for Crossfire and is cheaper.
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I think the DS4 has firewire too ( i think)

Does it have silent heat pipe too?
 
Well, i dont need dual pci and i dont need firewire :? Thanks, ds3 is cheaper, might get 2gb of ram. i am looking to overclock it aswell so it might pay off.

And what cooler is recomended?

lol and 7600GT OC or 7900GS?
 
Good plan on the 2gb, I'd recommend the Arctic Freezer 7 as being a good cooler and fairly cheap also. The 7900gs is the better card, the OcUK 7900gs is an unbranded Gainward Golden sample so it is a very good card with a lot of potential for overclocking. :)
 
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