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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £27.99
(£32.89) £27.99
(£32.89)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £39.99
(£46.99) £79.98
(£93.98)
Arctic Cooling Arctic Fan 12025L 120mm Fan - 3 Pin £4.99
(£5.86) £4.99
(£5.86)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £153.99
(£180.94) £153.99
(£180.94)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £209.99
(£246.74) £209.99
(£246.74)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3200AAKS) £41.99
(£49.34) £41.99
(£49.34)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) £56.99
(£66.96) £56.99
(£66.96)
Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99
(£88.11) £74.99
(£88.11)
Sub Total : £650.91
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VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £115.48
Total : £775.34


I'm going to order the above in the next couple of days to catch the Geil RAM offer. I already have a Tagan TG580-U15 580W ATX2.01 Easycon PSU and I've just purchased an Antec P180B . Does anyone know if the PSU cables are long enough to reach the MB in the P180 ? . I was originally going to buy the Leadtek graphics card but it's just gone up to the same price as the BFG so I went for that one instead . I'm aiming to overclock to 3ghz which shouldn't be a problem from what I've seen in other topics. Does the above spec look about right ?
 
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The specification looks good to me, sorry I don't know about the cable length though. If necessary you could always buy cable extenders - maybe fit the PSU to the case now and check how far they go if you have both parts already. :)

//edit is it going to be us three jumping on every thread all morning then? :D
 
Spec looks great.

Just a note on the hard drive however, it's out of stock at the moment so I'd have a backup planned in case they don't get them back in before Thursday lunchtime (as that's when the "This Week Only" offer will end and GeIL will go back to full price). Not sure about the PSU cables length unfortunately, but I doubt it'll be a problem, but of course I'd try for confirmation on it being long enough (I'd worry more about the 4/8pin connector than the 20/24 atx connector). You got some thermal paste also? If not I'd pick up some MX-2 from the shop with your order so you don't have to use the stuff that the Tuniq comes with.


[EDIT]: Lol, there were 0 replies when I was typing mine... 3 appeared!
 
Thanks for all your replies :) . I'll change the HDD to the Seagate as I didn't realise the WD was out of stock . I avoided the 2900XT due to extra heat a power usage but this has just come into stock -

HIS ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3
£170.36 inc VAT

From a gaming point of view, I mainly play RTS so I'm wondering if it would be a better price/performance option, especially if it clocked to xt speeds.
 
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I made a few of your suggested changes and put my order in. To hit 3ghz, given the RAM (4GB) I've ordered, would it be better to lower the multiplier and run 375x8 rather than 333x9 ? . Thanks again :) .
 
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Which speed, the 1000 or 2000 ? . I'm only adding an additional fan in the upper drive bay to cool the graphics card.
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I've only tried the 2000, but the 1000 are supposed to be good too. If the rest of your rig is silent, then go for the 1000, else 2000.

subroutine said:
I made a few of your suggested changes and put my order in. To hit 3ghz, given the RAM (4GB) I've ordered, would it be better to lower the multiplier and run 375x8 rather than 333x9 ? . Thanks again :) .
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If you go 375 x 8, then you might get more memory/system bandwidth, but you'll be putting you chipset under more strain. Alternatively, 9 x 333 will give you the same processor speed, less bandwidth (whether or not that is a limiting factor) and less strain on your MB.

Personally, I always use the 9x multi to it's fullest. The only obvious exception is that if you're going for some 8 x 400 RAM sync goodness (3.2GHz on the CPU) :)
 
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melbourne720 said:
I've only tried the 2000, but the 1000 are supposed to be good too. If the rest of your rig is silent, then go for the 1000, else 2000.
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I ordered the 2000 as I value cooling over noise :) .

melbourne720 said:
If you go 375 x 8, then you might get more memory/system bandwidth, but you'll be putting you chipset under more strain. Alternatively, 9 x 333 will give you the same processor speed, less bandwidth (whether or not that is a limiting factor) and less strain on your MB.

Personally, I always use the 9x multi to it's fullest. The only obvious exception is that if you're going for some 8 x 400 RAM sync goodness (3.2GHz on the CPU) :)
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I see, I suppose it all depends on the CPU temps . Would it be possible to run 8 x 400 on stock CPU volts and if not, what voltage is the CPU likely to need ? . Thanks for your help :) .
 
You'd be lucky on stock volts, I think somewhere in the region 1.3 to 1.4 is more likely. Maybe more. If you follow the OC guide in the OC and Cooling section, you put the VCore on 1.4 and overclock.

If you did that and found it stable, then you could always drop the VCore a little till it was orthos unstable, then up it again so it's at the stable minimum, if you get me :)

Basically, there are no hard and fast rules w/r to OC'ing. Just sensible ranges of Voltage, temperature, etc... Keep the CPU under 70 load and you'll be fine.
 
I built the system today and installed Vista 64. All the drivers are installed and it's curently running at stock but I haven't done any stability tests yet. Once that's done I'll OC to 3 or maybe 3.2GHz and post back the results. I can't get coretemp to run correctly, it just keeps running up multiple instances of coretemp when I run it up and I have to CTRL/ALT/DEL to stop it.
 
subroutine said:
I built the system today and installed Vista 64. All the drivers are installed and it's curently running at stock but I haven't done any stability tests yet. Once that's done I'll OC to 3 or maybe 3.2GHz and post back the results.
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You dont need to stability test your system if you have everything running at stock. Just do it once you have raised the FSB a fair bit.

subroutine said:
I can't get coretemp to run correctly, it just keeps running up multiple instances of coretemp when I run it up and I have to CTRL/ALT/DEL to stop it.
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Isn't it fun when it does that? :p

Anyway heres a fix for it.

http://forums.erodov.com/showthread.php?p=15559
 
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