Spec help plz £750 overclcoking system no gfx card

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My pc died and i need a new one asap.

What i am looking for is a system which can be overclocked which will be used for gaming, encoding and work, that is fairly quite while idle.

Anyway heres what i was thinking

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 - £191.51

Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower (Socket 939/754/478/775) CPU Cooler - £32.89

RAM -Not sure suggestions please

Motherboard - Havent got a clue :)

Hard-drive - help :)

DVD RW etc.. - Dont really know must be black thou

PSU - OCZ GameXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply - £70.49 (will 600w be enough will get a r600 when they are out)

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) - £75.19

Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - £65.79

Is this all i need?
thx for your help
 
Good selections from what you have already mentioned. I would suggest, recommend the following for the queries:

RAM: OCZ/GeIL PC6400 C4 2GB Kit
Motherboard: Gigabyte DS3P
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint (however many GB you want)
PSU: 550-600W should be fine, anything from Antec, Seasonic, Enermax is excellent.
 
No worries :) DS3 has always been a good board, great overclocker but has had some stability/compatibility problems earlier on when it was released. The DS3P is basically an improved version (Similar to a service pack for Windows) all the complaints and issues have been ironed out and it has some neat new features. Its basically an excellent overclocker and stable. My brother just bought one (Warpy) and is really impressed with it.

Likewise the OCZ, GeIL is great performance stuff, overclocks nicely too and comes at a very reasonable price, it has dropped quite considerably. I bought some around January time and it was £170! Can't go wrong with it.
 
If you want to save a bit of cash you could go for an E6300 or E6400 if you're going to be overclocking.

I'd choose OCZ over GeIL for the RAM (though PC6400 Crucial Ballistix can be had elsewhere for £125) and one of the Seagate 7200.10 HDDs.

Get a Tuniq Tower instead of the Zalman and I'd go for the 620W Corsair PSU.
 
Seagates are faster than Samsung's Spinpoint but the spinpoints are much quieter. It depends whether you want less noise or faster hard disk, the speed isn't probably going to be as noticable but the sound probably will be. I think he wants something with LED's because of the transparent side panel. If the OP wants a better cooling solution then the Thermalright Ultra-120/Scythe Ninja coupled with a Yate Loon with LED would be the best option imo.
 
mishima said:
Seagates are faster than Samsung's Spinpoint but the spinpoints are much quieter. It depends whether you want less noise or faster hard disk, the speed isn't probably going to be as noticable but the sound probably will be. I think he wants something with LED's because of the transparent side panel. If the OP wants a better cooling solution then the Thermalright Ultra-120/Scythe Ninja coupled with a Yate Loon with LED would be the best option imo.

Yeah, I can't rate samsungs enough when it comes to sound. Sure, some seasonic models are ultra quiet, but a lot of them have awful seek noises.

The zalman 9500 isn't the greatest cooler, especially for the money. It might look all pretty, but you might as well go for a tuniq, thermalright ultra 120 or a noctua.
 
With a Noctua NH-U12F, Sycthe Ninja, Thermalright Ultra-120 he could get an LED fan if he wants the colours in his case, with the Tuniq he can't do that and since they all offer very similar performance he may as well go for one of those.

Tell me about seek noises, WD have the worst ever. Mine is so noisy!
 
final check

Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail - £191.51

CPU Cooler - Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower (Socket 939/754/478/775) CPU Cooler - £32.89

RAM - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) - £117.49

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £88.11

Hard-drive - Samsung SpinPoint T HD401LJ 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM - £79.89

DVD Drive - Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM - Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £19.96

PSU - OCZ GameXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply - £70.49

Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - £65.79

Vista - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) - £75.19

total - £721.36

does this look like a good spec then and have i missed anthing will i need some thermal paste for the zalman cooler ?
 
It won't even be seconds probably, not noticable by the human eye. As for coolers, they are all up there as the best the ones I mentioned. People will recommend any of those. I personally recommend the Noctua, review of it in my sig. But as I said they are all very similar in performance, few degrees here and there. The Ultra-120 doesn't come with a fan though so you would have to purchase one addtionally. The Noctua by the way is very quiet. At the moment I'm sitting idle - E6600 @ 3GHz - 34/35C idle and 48C loaded.
 
final check 2

Processor - Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail - £191.51

CPU Cooler - Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) Heatsink £36.41

RAM - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) - £117.49

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £88.11

Hard-drive - Samsung SpinPoint T HD401LJ 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM - £79.89

DVD Drive - Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM - Samsung SH-S182D 18x18 DVD±RW ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £19.96

PSU - OCZ GameXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply - £70.49

Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - £65.79

Vista - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00788) - £75.19

total - £724.88
 
Just noticed one final thing, it would probably be worth getting a SATA DVD±RW because they are faster and are easier to manage inside the case because of the slim cabling, you can get rid of those nasty ribbon cables too. Other than that looks like an excellent setup.
 
mishima said:
Just noticed one final thing, it would probably be worth getting a SATA DVD±RW because they are faster and are easier to manage inside the case because of the slim cabling, you can get rid of those nasty ribbon cables too. Other than that looks like an excellent setup.

erm dont surpose u could link 1 :P
 
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