Spec my mate

[krooton]

My mate wants to upgrade.

After umming and ahhing over going 939, he's decided he'd rather go C2D and get a pc with a longer lifespan.

He would 6 years, and not being a gamer, this should be doable.

How long do you think the current 775 socket will be around for, given intel's history of making the most out of a single socket? Would he say be able to shell out just for a new cpu in 3 years if his no longer cuts it?

I did a cheapo budget spec, he wants it to cost as little as possible.

Team Elite 1GB (2 x 512MB) DDR2 PC2-6400C5 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (TEDD1024M800HC5DC)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_945PL_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Leadtek GeForce 7100 GS Turbo Cache 512MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express)

Sub Total : £306.96
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri) Shipping : £8.25
Vat : £55.16
Total : £370.37

Cpu and ram give him overclocking headroom should he need more juice in the future, and the gfx card is great for £30 as he aint a gamer.

Thoughts?

 

[steve258]

Cpu and ram give him overclocking headroom should he need more juice in the future, and the gfx card is great for £30 as he aint a gamer.

Yeah but the mobo will not overclock well at all, think he can stretch another £20 for 965P-S3??

 

[mishima]

If he's going to overclock I'd go for a e6300 rather than a e6600. More value for money. With the extra money... get 2GB of RAM. It would be more useful!

 

[krooton]

He wouldn't be overclocking off the bat, I was just thinking for if he needed a kick in a year or 2's time.

He'll be using a retail fan anyhoo, dunno how good they are for ocing

 

[Trusty]

This would work very well, cheap and plenty of overclocking potential. But overclock it now, not in a few years. The retail fan is good, they have increased in standard over the years!

Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£115.14)

Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£72.84)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
(£146.86)

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
(£111.61)

Sub Total :£379.96
Total :£456.15

And is only 70 pounds over yours really!

 

[krooton]

This would work very well, cheap and plenty of overclocking potential. But overclock it now, not in a few years. The retail fan is good, they have increased in standard over the years!

Intel Core 2 DUO E4300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.80GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£115.14)

Gigabyte GA_965P_S3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£72.84)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
(£146.86)

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
(£111.61)

Sub Total :£379.96
Total :£456.15

And is only 70 pounds over yours really!

He isn't a gamer, the 7100 is fine, will show him those prices, cheers

 

[Trusty]

ok fair enough then