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Hello again. After showing someone my brand new c2d system which I am building for a friend, i found that this person wanted one too. Meeee.

I've got a budget of about £650 and I have starting idea's after 15 minutes browsing.

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I was planning to clock the CPU up to the ram's bus, don't know how this would work which is why I am asking here.

Any advice on absolutly anything im completly open to suggestions.

I realise this spec is slightly over my budget, which is why im a little stuck :cool:
 
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IMO that motherboard is overpriced. I'd replace it with an Asus P5N-E. The Antec 900 is a rather poor case considering its cheaper competitor, the Lian-Li PC-7 is quieter, cools just as well, is roomier, and is all-around more scrupulously engineered.

When you say you want "to clock the CPU up to the ram's bus" what do you mean? That RAM is probably way OTT unless you were putting the CPU under phase or some'at.
 
The board can be swapped for a DS3p which is a better clocker (i think). The RAM is a tad over kill as that chip as a high multi, so over clocking it is easy.
 
I was planning on RAIDing the hdd's seeing as I have been on stripe raid for the last 4 months and i dont think i could go back :D

How does the Noctua compare to the Artic Cooling Pro 7 for skt 755?
 
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Im a little worried about that ram, I understand that it may overclock 'like a beast' :p But if i get stuck at 770MHz I would rather not have spent £80 on it. Also looking at maybe a cheaper PSU.

Thanks for your spec though Billy, I have an enormous amount of respect for you after seeing all the work you do here :cool:
 
You may, of course, suit yourself, but that memory is quite impressive. Cob is running his 4 sticks of it at 1020 MHz! :eek:

If there's anywhere you don't want to skimp, it's the PSU. A solid PSU is the backbone of a stable system. A failed PSU can easily destroy the rest of the system when it goes. Keep that in mind when you select a PSU to use. :)
 
I think the artic freezer 7 pro will definately provide more bang-for buck for someone on a budget

I agree the lian li is definately a wiser choice

I would say try waiting a few weeks before commiting to a graphics card (just with the whole r600 release thing going on)

Definately spend money on a better psu (i learnt the hard way) and am using the same corsair hx520 atm, works a charm and build quality is excellent.
 
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I would say try waiting a few weeks before commiting to a graphics card (just with the whole r600 release thing going on)
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I am not buying for a nother couple of weeks, thanks for the tip though I didn't check out the new cards yet and im in terror of the price tag.
 
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I am not buying for a nother couple of weeks, thanks for the tip though I didn't check out the new cards yet and im in terror of the price tag.
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It's not the new cards he's advocating, it's the price drop we're likely to see as the existing cards move to compete with the new ones. Rumor has it ATi's XT models will be priced to compete with the GTSes and will perform more closely to the GTXes. If you won't build for a few weeks be sure to ask again what to get as the PC world changes that fast. You could get a very good deal in a few weeks that just doesn't exist now. :)
 
dont forget you'll need an OS on that build, unless you've already got one

I had pretty much the same spec as that but I was going for the Gigabyte DS3P and the Antec case
 
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