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BenJ

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Ok I will be ordering my new parts on monday, just wanted to make sure im spending my money wisely. Here is what I have come up with.



  • I chose the Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R becuase a lot of people seem to be recommending it and it has a small cooling block on it so the tuniq tower should fit easily.

  • I chose the Antec 900 Case due to reading quite a few reviews about how good it is at cooling, so this will replace my thermaltake soprano current case. Ive heard good things about the antec p182 also though.

  • I chose the OCZ PC2 5400 2x2gig Memory mainly because of the price, but im not sure wether to go with 4x1gig Curcial Ballistix PC5300.

  • The reason for the E6850 rather than a quad is because I dont really use many apps, just games.

  • And finally the tuniq tower 120 seems to be a firm favourite so Ive gone with it, however the Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) Heatsink seems a strong contender.

So guys any opinions, glaring compatability probs, bad choices e.t.c let me know.

I will be overclocking this to whatever I can get out of it and will be using the remaining parts from my current setup (In sig)

EDIT* Yes will be running vista when the service pack is released.

 
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Motherboard seams fine.

Swap the memory for OcUK 4 x 1GB of DDR2 PC2-8500C5, it is overkill for XP but you will be ready for Vista if you choose to make the jump.

Swap the E6850 for Q6600 as a majority of games will be optimised for quad and its cheaper (plus a free game ;) ) .

Id choose the Noctua over the tuniq tower (personal preference)

The case is excellent for cooling but if its on the floor it will drag in dust.

I keep my Antec on my desk and it fine.
 
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Its not for win xp, so need 4gig, do not need pc8500 since the e6850 has a high multiplier and pc5300 wont limit the overclock.
 
BenJ said:
Its not for win xp, so need 4gig, do not need pc8500 since the e6850 has a high multiplier and pc5300 wont limit the overclock.
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Basically the minimum you need is the 5300 for it to run 1:1 with your processor.

But why not get faster?
Surely faster is better, and if you ever decide to overclock your cpu with the 5300 ram you will have to overclock the ram as well, but with the 8500 you wouldn't need to touch it.

Your choice
 
Faster is indeed better and easier when overclocking, but as with everything its about money...

Im sure ill be fine spending a few seconds selecting a ram divider if the ram dosent like a big mhz increase :D
 
Garyj881 said:
Basically the minimum you need is the 5300 for it to run 1:1 with your processor.

But why not get faster?
Surely faster is better, and if you ever decide to overclock your cpu with the 5300 ram you will have to overclock the ram as well, but with the 8500 you wouldn't need to touch it.

Your choice
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But surely that defeats the object of overclocking?
 
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