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sunderland

sunderland

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well you can see what ive got in my sig,but its getting to the time were i like to spend some money on my pc,so do you think it would be better going for a e6600 and new board and memory or do you think my system is still upto the job cheers for any advice,plus i might get a little bit more back of mine now if i do decide to upgrade
 
Personally I'd wait for quadcores to come down in price to under the £150 and 4gigs ram to £100 before upgrading.I think this will happen when AMD release there own Quad cores at the end of the year giving Intel some competition.A new bigger 20"+ monitor or more hard disks space will make your computing smother and more enjoyable than the new chip unless your doing a lot of video encodeing.
 
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4 GB of RAM for under £100 is possible but likely to be value stuff :(

It all depends on what you do on your PC.Personaly if the pc runs everything you want it to why bother?

Then again there is always that urge in all of us to have something new/different whether it be a PC,Car or a woman :D

[got a nice slap on the head for the last sentence]
 
i think thats what it is i just fancy something new and keep seeing how powerfull the e6600 chips are and keep telling myself i need one,mine still does everything fine,god i hate it when im like this
 
would love to invest in the beer but its time i showed something for my money as been down that road to many times,think i will get myself the
Gigabyte P35 DS3R board
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
and then just keep them till the quads come out,thanks for the advice
 
well ive bought a e6600 and this board
Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
all im looking for is 3gb overclock what would be the best ram for that please,was going to get the geil but read the thread were people were having problems with it on asus boards
 
sunderland said:
well ive bought a e6600 and this board
Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
all im looking for is 3gb overclock what would be the best ram for that please,was going to get the geil but read the thread were people were having problems with it on asus boards
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I have a P35 DS3P and have run both budget Crucial PC5300 and OCZ SLi PC8500 with no problems.

For the money any of the OCZ or Crucial kits should be fine for your overclock... the e6600 doesn't need much due to its higher 9x multi.

I would recommend other memory makes but as i've not used them i'll leave that for others to do. ;)

With a 3ghz overclock you'd only need a 334mhz fsb. Some 5300 could just do it with a mild clock but some 6400 would be perfect for what you need. That could theoretically get you to 3.6ghz on the chip without overclocking the ram!

I'd probably risk it and go for the OCZ 4gb PC5400 kit:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-087-OC

Great price and would get your chip to 3ghz (warning: may not overclock much more though so you must be sure that's all you'd want! :p )

gt
 
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thanks for the advice ivre gone for the Geil 6400 C5 4x1gb sticks cant go wrong for just over 100 quid thanks again,p.s i know were to come if im having trouble setting it up if you dont mind lads your the best :D
 
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In 5 moths intel are dropping the prices of all their processors by 50% i wish i waited until then well i think its 5 months maybe earlier i recommend you wait
 
well it makes no difference to me as the e6600 was bought from a friend for 100 quid secondhand of course so its saved me some money anyway
 
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