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Hi all I have currently had a little accident with my current PC I have claimed through the insurance and they have given me £554.67 to spen on replacing it, the only problem is that they gave me two ways to do this 1) buy parts myself and send them receipts and they will send me the money (I dont have the money to do this - 2) get a shop to send the prices of the parts I want to the insurance and the insurance will pay them direct (WOULD OC DO THIS).

Ok so if all this gows ahead can you guys recommend me a PC, it would be mainly used for CAD 2D & 3D drawing, Video Encoding, DVD & CD Burning, Games and other general work including browsing the net, I would like a good overclocker as I have never really got into overclocking but now I would like to, I currently have a screen, keyboard and other accessories.

my current pc is
DFi NF4 Lanparty Board
AMD Athlon 64 3800
1536mb Ram
820gig HDD space
ATi Radeon xt1950 xt
DVD RW

As anyone claimed on there house insurance and have had to do it like this, I would have prefered the money so I could buy the bits second hand from the MM.
 
This is what I would get for the money. You have a quadcore for the encoding etc, and a good graphics card for gaming. You get free shipping so take £11 off that price :)

Oh and this, if your going to overclock the CPU

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why cant the insureance company give you the money? As you can tell, too young to have delt with such matters before :) And the above spec looks alright. Probably go E8400 tho.
 
Happy said:
This is what I would get for the money. You have a quadcore for the encoding etc, and a good graphics card for gaming. You get free shipping so take £11 off that price :)

Oh and this, if your going to overclock the CPU

AC Freezer Pro

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Cheers Happy

8igdave said:
why cant the insureance company give you the money? As you can tell, too young to have delt with such matters before :) And the above spec looks alright. Probably go E8400 tho.
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Not sure mate, insurance companies never make things easy.

So what you think happies reccomendation or the E8400 and whats the pros & cons between the two.
 
Id probably say better to leave the licence out and buy it sepearate to get the most of a pc you can with their money. Although you could miss out a part or too and order other parts taht total the amount they are giving then buy the rest separately. Depends if you wanted to add in your own money.

wiggyuk said:
Not sure mate, insurance companies never make things easy.

So what you think happies reccomendation or the E8400 and whats the pros & cons between the two.
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yeah they always tryign to find ways to make you not wana bother em.

As for the E8400, well i wasn't sure how badly the programs you menchened affect the cpu. is there a lot of encoding and decoding involved? in which case it would be a quad core definite. Where as gaming wize youll get more out of the dual core at the moment.
 
I would still go with the quad for your CAD and encoding. Also this is the Q6700 so faster than the standard Q6600 that people recommend. With a liitle overclocking you wouldn't notice the difference in games :)
 
Yeah here is the performance order, best to worst.

Q6700>Q6600>Q8200

Not sure why the Q6600 is more expensive though. The 8200 isn't worth looking at, low multiplier and missing CPU Instruction compared to the Q6700&Q6600.

If you want quadcore get a Q6700 (I think the best option)

Or if you want dualcore then get a E8400/8500.
 
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