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chuck990

chuck990

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Hi I recently decided to build a pc for fun and was looking for advice, before I found this site I was pretty sure I had decided on which components to use, however this site has opened my eyes to so much more! I decided to start with a processor and work from there choosing motherboard video adapter etc.

My eyes are currently drawn to the Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 LGA775 'Wolfdale' "Overclocking E0 Stepping" 3.33GHz (1333FSB)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-232-IN
As this has such a good cache and clock speed I presume it will be well endowed to do things like games etc capably,


However on the Overclockers site when choosing a motherboard it asks for the chipset, I cannot find the chipset of this processor anywhere, is there something I'm missing? Id need to choose the motherboard before choosing memory as it dictates weather I get DDR2 or DDR3 RAM so I cant choose that yet,

For the graphics card I was looking at the HIS ATI Radeon HD 4670 IceQ 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) is this a good choice? It appears to be a cheap alternative to the pricier cards that offer 1 Gb of memory but does it have drawbacks?

Hard drive Samsung SpinPoint F1 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM looks good is it?

Any suggestions for a Disk drive? Not too worried about Blu-Ray but would live a DVD-RW

not too sure about cooling, a water cooling system looks cool but is it just a waste of money? Id also like a cool looking case with LEDs green or blue..

All in all I basically need someone to give me advice on how to make a good gaming PC that also looks good............. Any suggestions?
 
hi the price, though not highly important, should not be too high, id prefer to spend around 600 but would prefer it to be good and more than i wanted to pay than cheap and dissapointing, i will need an os but the mouse and keyboard can be sorted out seperately, ill need a wireless both
 
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Basically ignore the chipset for now, some chipsets are better than others, like when C2D was the norm everyone wanted P35, it overclocked well. Putting a CPU against a mobo is down to the socket type, for example C2D is LGA775, which is DDR2, the newer Nehalem (socket 1366) CPU is DDR3 and so will need a different mobo with the newer socket type. Hope I helped.
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does this mean all motherboards with 775 compatibility will work??
 
just had a look and the Samsung SM-2032BW Pebble 20" Widescreen LCD Monitor look good yet cheap enough to buy two is this a wise choice and if so any idea for the graphics card?
 
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