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Kirth Gersen

Kirth Gersen

Kirth Gersen

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Hi,

September at last, money is in the bank. Time for an upgrade.

Objectives.

1. Great gaming, focus on FSX so the spec is CPU oriented.
2. Overclocking to c25-30%
3. Non bleeding edge models/prices

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard £71.99 (£84.59). Best bang per buck for moderate overclocking?

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £49.99 (£58.74). I was going for the Crucial Ballistix 5300, but this weeks offer wins the day I think.

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £109.99 (£129.24). Best bang per buck looking for a 3.2-3.4 ghz overclock.

Tuniq Tower 120. Best bang per buck. Not in stock, so will source elsewhere.

Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £279.99 (£328.99). A 2 year purchase so want the extra warranty over the cheaper OC version.

Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £389.99 (£458.24) can source this for £430 including delivery elsewhere (ie same as non HC version so no brainer.

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £54.99 (£64.61). Have it on the family machine and actually quite like it.

Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £63.99 (£75.19). More space required.

This lot to merge with my:

Seasonic 600W
Nec DVD Rewriter
X-Fi & Logitech speakers
2 * Samgsung hard drives
Lian Li V1000+

Issues - thoughts?
 
Agree with everything you said apart from this;

Kirth Gersen said:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £109.99 (£129.24). Best bang per buck looking for a 3.2-3.4 ghz overclock.
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To me, its certainly not the best 'Bang for Buck'.

An E2160 will OC to 3-3.2Ghz fairly comfortably and is over half the price, if it was me I'd either get the E2160 or fork out for the Q6600.
 
Oh dear, now you gone and done it.

I've checked on the 2160, and clearly it's a great overclocker though 3Ghz may be tops for my limited skillset :). Runs a little bit hot for my tastes, but the Tuniq should eat some of that up.

Bit worried about the 1Mb cache against the 4Mb on the 2750.

Anyway for £56, that seems a good reason to buy and play, while awaiting the next gen of chips.

Thanks
 
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Kirth Gersen said:
Bit worried about the 1Mb cache against the 4Mb on the 2750.
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The extra cache or in this case the less cache hardly has an impact of gaming performance.

Kirth Gersen said:
Anyway for £56, that seems a good reason to buy and play, while awaiting the next gen of chips.
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Exactly that, for £56 its amazing value for money and when overclocked to 3GHz will be extremely quick, enjoy :)
 
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