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Storrm

Storrm

Storrm

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Comments welcome. I've not upgraded for 3yrs so this is gonna be fun :-) I'm on a budget of ~£600 so although I know I can do better in some areas, I don't want to push the envelope :-)

Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
2GB kit (1GBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, DDR2 PC2-8500 memory module (CL 5-5-5-15 1066Mhz)
or alternatively
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2G8004GK) (CL 5-5-5-18 800Mhz DDR2)
GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - (OS & Apps)
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - (Storage)

Cheers
Matt
 
get rid of that 8bm cache drive and change it for a 250gb 16mb cache drive for about a fiver more :) you will notiice the difference and ditch the ocz ram and get the cheaper geil ram :)
 
I agree with Mr. Caithomas. Will you be overclocking it? If not you can do much better on the RAM and motherboard. Perhaps with consideration of that you can squeeze an 8800 GTS into the spec.

The 250 GB disk to get is the 7200.10 from Seagate. It's silly fast, up to 95 MiB/s sustained transfer.
 
I tried to duplicate your spec to see what it would cost and I'm guessing that either you're shopping somewhere other than OcUK, or you've significantly exceeded your budget, or both. The mobo, processor, OCZ RAM, PSU, and GT alone come to more than 600.

I'd like to make a spec for you. Should I stick to 600 or less or shall I exceed it?

EDIT: Whoops, sorry about the DP. :o
 
Hey guys and thanks for all the replies. Agree with you about the drive and I'll factor that in.

@billy - I've been reading a lot of your spec posts and have already made some changes to the original spec. I've opted for the geil ram and also swapped the mobo for a P5KC combo. All in all its around the £650 mark using OC's christmas special pricing which is ~£600 as per my original post :-) I'm sure if I ring the nice people at OC they'll help me reach my goal of £600 with a bit of discount.

My current rig is a P4 3Ghz, 2Gb OCZ PC3500, ATI X1950 AGP, so basically I would be expecting a big performance increase no matter what I went with :-) I'm not big into overclocking but would like to push the Q6600 to around the 3.2Ghz mark on air, so if you think I can make some other changes to the spec, then please suggest away :-) I'll be using it as a gaming and media centre rig

Cheers
Matt
 
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