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richie123

richie123

richie123

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my pc finaly died tonight so thaught time for an upgrade

at the moment i have a 150gb raptor +4 varous other hardrives, audigy 2 zs, wifi card,, 600w psu case monitor mouse etc and
am after resonable spec for gaming + video encoding

havn really been keepg up to date with components lately but was thinking

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-113-GI
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-202-IN
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-095-OC
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-035-BG

trying to keep too a 1kprice range though

any fead back on this would be greatly appericated
 
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my choice of parts

Your basket
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £199.99
(£234.99) £199.99
(£234.99)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) £55.99
(£65.79) £55.99
(£65.79)
Asus Maximus Formula Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £152.99
(£179.76) £152.99
(£179.76)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.66GHz 12MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail £199.99
(£234.99) £199.99
(£234.99)
Pioneer DVR-115DBK 20x DVD±RW IDE Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £74.99
(£88.11) £74.99
(£88.11)
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ) (Deal Product) £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £27.99
(£32.89) £27.99
(£32.89)
Sub Total : £796.92
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £141.20

x48 chipset, for me is too "unknown", although there maybe reviews on the net, until i start seeing posts praising it i would avoid it for the time being.

DDR2 RAM over DDR3 due to price difference and the fact that you will not see any reallife differences between ddr2 and ddr3.

unless you want to run 3870x2s in CF, i dont think a 1kw PSU is needed, so i speced a 620w, which i think would be enough.

you will need to pick your own case
 
FYI anything 'Pre-order' with no ETA could seriously delay/compromise your build & I'm guessing with PC dying you need something ASAP?

How about...



If current (600W) PSU is up-to-it then don't need the Corsair one above ;)
 
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great point about the pre order that yorkfield has got another month before release, probly would cmpromise the build,

would the pc6400 ram not severly bottle neck the system? for the price of that spec could probably afoard to spend a bit more it will get me a nicer clock
maybe
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ) (Deal Product) £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
?
or
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 QUAD Dominator PC2-8500C5 Quad2X (4x1GB) £174.99
(£205.61)
my curent psu is an "antec true power trio 650w" would that be adaquate power for everything

but yeh looks like i will go with that spec with with a little more advise hp7909 could even aford a new case too :P
 
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6400 RAM will definitely NOT bottle-neck the system & still get you a decent OC with the Q6600 :)

Hope your current case will cool the system adequately & can accommodate the Tuniq Tower & 3870X2. The latter is about the size of 8800GTX.

The Antec PSU will do fine ;)
 
Thank god jak stopped you from spending nearly 300 quid just on 2gb of ddr3 ram!!!:eek:

Time and time again I see people blindly getting carried away with expensive DDR3 ram!!

When you compare Intels Core 2 architecture to AMDs A64 and even Intels old netburst architecture you find it has the poorest Memory Bandwidth by quite a margin, yet you can see Core 2 has a very big performance lead. With an optimized read ahead memory controller that actually lowers apparent latency, you can see it makes best use of the memory bandwidth available with zero need for faster clocking ram. Theres just no need for DDR3 ram, especially at that price!

Another case in point, we saw a huge increases in memory bandwidth brought by the AM2 platform, yet it made almost no difference in AM2 performance compared to the earlier DDR1 based A64 systems!

My advice is spend your cash on something that will actually make a difference :)
 
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