New build - help needed!

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I plan to upgrade my system very soon. Here are the components i'm currently considering:



I am thinking of going for the Raptor, even though it is more than I really want to spend as I have heard it can make a huge difference to load times on games. I am currently playing Age of Conan beta and the loading is driving me nuts!

I am not sure whether to go with the Q6600 or the E8400. It seems at the moment I could get more performance out of the E8400, but I also want the system to be as future proof as possible. I intend to overclock, no watercooling though.

I already have an 8800GT card so I don't need a new one.

I have no idea which RAM to choose so I just picked that set, any advice would be great. I have never overclocked RAM before.

I look forward to seeing your comments/feedback, thanks!
 
I saw in the PC section of this forum that the AoC beta has awful loading times for everyone. Loads of varying specs (most pretty good obviously).

I would imagine it's a coding/optimisation problem and they will fix it at some point. I wouldn't go over your budget for that when it's likely not going to fix the problem.

The Samsung F1s are spanking drives. Do some research though because ones with denser platters (like the 1TB) seem to perform slightly better.
 
Ethics said:
I saw in the PC section of this forum that the AoC beta has awful loading times for everyone. Loads of varying specs (most pretty good obviously).

I would imagine it's a coding/optimisation problem and they will fix it at some point. I wouldn't go over your budget for that when it's likely not going to fix the problem.

The Samsung F1s are spanking drives. Do some research though because ones with denser platters (like the 1TB) seem to perform slightly better.
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I see, you could very well be right. I think it might be because my current system is 2 years old now. I'm using a AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3700+ so that is bound to be slowing things up!!
 
So how does this look now:



Would it be worth partitioning the 1TB drive? Would that make Vista run faster?
 
Looks great man. As for partitioning... it may help to keep your files on a seperate partition from your OS install but that's really just personal preference.
 
Like above it is a personal preference but there are logical reasons for it.

I.e if you partition so that your system has the OS one on and your data (not installed applications) like documents etc. on another partition. It prevents any corruption on the OS partition from destroying the rest of your data, and can make recovery a little easier. Partitions are also neccessary for installing other OSs for multi-boot environments.

There is no point in putting the swap file on a different partition as it's the same disk.
 
with the extra money saved on the raptor perhaps consider a bigger cooler for that quadcore, perhaps a tuniq tower or noctua. btw anyone know why the TT went up in price so much, not long ago it was ~30squid now its 45?
 
martian_aphid said:
with the extra money saved on the raptor perhaps consider a bigger cooler for that quadcore, perhaps a tuniq tower or noctua. btw anyone know why the TT went up in price so much, not long ago it was ~30squid now its 45?
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Yeah that's the only other alteration i'm considering. I am slightly worried about the size and difficulty of installing the two coolers you suggested. This is only my second build and I remember having bother with the cooler last time!
 
yea should mention check the height against what you case will fit, i have an armor which is full tower but the sidewindow has a fan which means its very tight with a tuniq but the tuniq should fit into a midtower case without anything on the side panel. as far as fitting goes if you can get a pair of extra hands it might help but its a benefit that you are getting a new mobo and can fit it straight away rather than doing it to mobo that is already fitted inside a case
 
Right i'm about ready to order.

Do i need to buy some thermal compound or will the cooler come with some already applied? Seem to remember that it did last time...
 
The pre-applied thermal compound on the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler is Arctic Cooling MX-2, this compound does not show decreasing performance over time, does not need to be reapplied and has a durability of at least 8 years-
- High Thermal Conductivity
- Low Thermal Resistance
- Non-Electrical Conductive
- Non-Capacitive
- Non-Curing
- Non-Corrosive
- No Bleeding
- Odourless
 
OLDPHART said:
The pre-applied thermal compound on the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler is Arctic Cooling MX-2, this compound does not show decreasing performance over time, does not need to be reapplied and has a durability of at least 8 years-
- High Thermal Conductivity
- Low Thermal Resistance
- Non-Electrical Conductive
- Non-Capacitive
- Non-Curing
- Non-Corrosive
- No Bleeding
- Odourless
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Excellent news, thanks for your response!
 
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