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[PeteLucky7]

Hi

Can someone run their eye over the below please? This for a machine for general windows usage and mid level gaming as close to £400 asap. Don't need windows as we have an unused copy knocking about somewhere. Hoping to clock it up to 3ghz or so and have a alright machine for the next couple of years. The graphics cooler is a bit of a luxury, but I've heard the fans on these own brand ones are a bit carp and I'm a bit of a noise freak.

Cheers


Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £27.99
(£32.89) £27.99
(£32.89)
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU £67.99
(£79.89) £67.99
(£79.89)
Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 VGA Cooler £13.99
(£16.44) £13.99
(£16.44)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £39.99
(£46.99) £39.99
(£46.99)
OcUK ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £67.99
(£79.89) £67.99
(£79.89)
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400C4 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £46.99
(£55.21) £46.99
(£55.21)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2140 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.60GHz (800FSB) - Retail £37.99
(£44.64) £37.99
(£44.64)
EVGA nForce 650i Ultra (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (122-CK-NF66-T1) £49.99
(£58.74) £49.99
(£58.74)

Total ~ £427 inc vat and del

 

[Admiral Huddy]

Looks ok but can you stretch to an 8800GTS 320MB? or an 8600?

 

[semi-pro waster]

I'd opt for the E2160 because of the higher multiplier and the fact that it only costs a few pounds more. You also need some thermal paste for the CPU heatsink if you don't already have some spare.

I'd probably drop the graphics card cooler and try the stock one to begin with unless you already know for sure it won't be any good.

 

[PeteLucky7]

Nope not really - 8800gts would be nice but not enough £. And I thought the x1950pro would beat the 8600gt anyway, may be mistaken.

 

[uv]

your grfx and the cooler is £95 - for the extra tenner, I'd reccomend the X1950 pro turbo. It has a faster clock speed, and the cooler it comes with is actually silent

and yeah, in most cases the x1950 pro kicks the 8600 into the mud.
The E2160 is meant to reach >3ghz much easier, due to it's higher multi. There's a ~16 page thread in the cpu section I'd read up on

 

[mattyj1085]

You'll get 3ghz with e2140 and that evga board easy my brother has almost identical spec and he could boot straight in at 3 ghz on stock cooler fine just needed a tweak on cpu voltage to 1.375v