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Gammawolf

Gammawolf

Gammawolf

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Hi, I’m new to self builds, and haven’t really got enough experience yet to make such decisions without some form of checking. Here's the system I brought up, can anyone tell me if it's alright and ready to go? I'd like to stick to those specs and not go higher price wise unless it's a compatibility problem or something along those lines. Thanks for any help :))

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are you overclocking and what is the purpose of the pc?

if you are gaming

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
LG L226WTQ 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black/Silver £163.99
(£192.69) £163.99
(£192.69)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04) £5.99
(£7.04)
Coolermaster CM-690 Dominator - Black (No PSU) £42.99
(£50.51) £42.99
(£50.51)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £57.99
(£68.14) £57.99
(£68.14)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Pioneer DVR-212DBK 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD4000AAKS) £44.99
(£52.86) £44.99
(£52.86)
PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 3850 Pro Extreme Silent 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail £109.99
(£129.24) £109.99
(£129.24)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £46.99
(£55.21) £46.99
(£55.21)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Sub Total : £604.89
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £14.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £108.47
Total : £728.31

the graphics card will be a huge improvement over the 8600 which is not a gaming card.
the e2180 will overclock to 3ghz+ anyway so a e6750 isnt needed unless you do not want to overclock (you may suffer a bit of light hearted abuse form other forum members for not wanting to overclock a C2D cpu).
i spec'd a 400gb hdd as there was a price difference of just over £1 between the 320 and 400 GB models
kept same case as you as i thought is was soemthing you wanted.
kept same monitor as i have little clue on new monitors and i am thinking you know more in this department then me.
change the DVD drive to the samsung one you picked if you have good experiance with samsung drive, i picked pioneer as i personally find their drives to be good.
 
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Yeah overclocking is honestly much easier and safer (in terms of your component's health lol) than it seems. You'd be saving yourself a bunch of money by getting that E2180 and clocking it, and it'd probably outperform a stock E6750 anyway once you've got it to around 3Ghz. I vouch for that cooler as well btw :D (got one myself)

And as well as that, the extra cash saved will get you a decent graphics card as well, which should last you a while with the rest of that setup. Great spec jak :)
 
No compatability isses with your build Gammawolf.However you could save a bit of cash by leaving out the arctic silver.Just use the thermal pad that will come with the heatsink,they're very good :D

Also,don't forget that in order to achieve the low latency advertised with that RAM the settings must be entered manually into the BIOS.The SPD settings are a little higher.Still good RAM though.

Good luck with the build :D
 
Cheers, I'll probably build it just after christmas (Poor 17 year old has to wait on christmas money to fund his build:( ) Since this is my first build i'm not confident enought to be overclocking so i'll have to stick with the E6750.

One more question, does anyone happen to know if prices usually drop after christmas?
 
ChoÞÞer said:
overclocking is fine, just dont be silly and only do it by a little bit each time til your happy:)
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amen to that Chopper. It really is once you read up on it a bit, I was a bit apprehensive at first but it's really just chaging one number and then checking everything's going ok. There's almost no chance of you damaging anything as long as you don't make the jumps too big and you don't get poor quality components
 
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