Ordered :D

thedazman67 · 9 Dec 2006 at 16:43

After 4 years with a tired AMD Athlon XP 2500+ 1GB of value ram, 9800 pro and 200gb hard drive. I thought it was time to upgrade. i recently re discovered gaming thanks to Company Of Heros (awesome) so that was the basis of this spec i had about 700 to spend and came up with this

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Tenth Anniversary Dual Channel Kit (TY2KIT12864AA663)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM x2
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Total £724.83

I of course will be overclocking this when it arrives. I think its safe to say its a step up from my previous rig

thedazman

Simonnn · 9 Dec 2006 at 16:48

Thats pretty similar to mine, very nice it is too

tomanders91 · 9 Dec 2006 at 16:48

definatly a step up, and nice system aswell

thedazman67 · 9 Dec 2006 at 16:53

i think ill do some before and after benchmarks to compare see how big of jump it is

jubei · 10 Dec 2006 at 16:25

I have been reading a few specs on this site and everyone seems to keep coming up with that processor in their spec.

I have been out of the hardware loop for well over a year but whats the deal with picking up a 1.86 processor? am fairly sure that its a step down from the processors around a year ago, am i missing something super major with this core duo lark?

Anyone point me in the direction of some comparisons or reviews of the current high end processors maybe?

Cheers

touch · 10 Dec 2006 at 16:30

jubei said:
am i missing something super major with this core duo lark?

Yeah, slow is the new fast!!!
Everyone wants a slow cpu...they cant make them fast enough!
Its cooler and the fans can run quieter!!!!

Ok, then, seriously, have a look HERE

jubei · 10 Dec 2006 at 16:37

touch said:
Yeah, slow is the new fast!!!
Everyone wants a slow cpu...they cant make them fast enough!
Its cooler and the fans can run quieter!!!!

Ok, then, seriously, have a look HERE

Thanks mate, useful link having a good read

thedazman67 · 10 Dec 2006 at 19:08

Also consider this my current AMD Althon XP 2500+ @ 1.82GHz gets a slow 1minute 1 second in super pi 1M calculation where as a stock E6300 get about 30 seconds or so. technology as moved on

thedazman