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W1LL3y3

W1LL3y3

W1LL3y3

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Hey guys ive just had to buy a brand new set of parts for my pc as a faulty PSU melted my pc lol, so ive spent £500 on new parts as i cant be arsed taking parts in and out to test um lol

anyways just wondering i the setup im geting will be good and if it will be good for overclocking? anyone who has a similar spec could you please give me some tips on what to change in the bios for a decent speed boost please

cheers

heres what ive just bought:

Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L iP43 Socket 775

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Energy Efficient 95W edition Socket 775 (2.40GHz) G0 Stepping L2 8MB Cache

Arctic Cooling AC-FRZ-7P Freezer 7 Pro Socket 775

Kingston 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 HyperX Memory Non-ECC CL5

ZOTAC GTX260 192 Core SYNERGY EDITION 896MB DDR3

Samsung EcoGreen F2 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 32MB Cache

Powercool 750W 80plus Certified Efficiency PSU - 2x PCI-E 4x SATA


p.s. Dont tell the missus she'll kill me lol

so please honest opinions and O/C suggestions plz
 
If the reason you are going through all this is because of a rubbish PSU in your last build why are you buying a rubbish PSU in this one?

If your budget is tight look at 550-600W Antec/Corsair/Coolermaster range, but anything half decent is going to be double the price of the one you have chosen, and there is a reason for that.

Arctic freezer is "ok-ish" but if you do plan on overclocking I'd be looking at a Sunbeam Core or Tuniq Tower. Again around double the price of the Freezer 7 Pro
 
Biffa said:
If the reason you are going through all this is because of a rubbish PSU in your last build why are you buying a rubbish PSU in this one?

If your budget is tight look at 550-600W Antec/Corsair/Coolermaster range, but anything half decent is going to be double the price of the one you have chosen, and there is a reason for that.

Arctic freezer is "ok-ish" but if you do plan on overclocking I'd be looking at a Sunbeam Core or Tuniq Tower. Again around double the price of the Freezer 7 Pro
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Sadly the psu comment is so true :(
however a sunbeam or xigmatec heatsink are very good choices and not double the cost :)
 
johnerz said:
Sadly the psu comment is so true :(
however a sunbeam or xigmatec heatsink are very good choices and not double the cost :)
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You are correct, Sunbean or Tuniq are only around 50% more than the Arctic. Not sure about Xigmatec, not on my albeit limited radar, but I'll take your word for it :)
 
+1 for the Sunbeam, but the Xigmatek is supposed to be very close in performance.

The Sunbeam comes with TX-2 paste as well as a fan controller which allows it to cool quietly but effectively.

And get a better PSU. God wills it! :D You don't wanna blow up another £500 :(
 
cheers for the advice but parts was purchasd yesty lol, i heard on many a thread that arctic cooling freezer 7 can keep yeh really cool in fact i think its the best rated cooler in PcGamer, although i may be wrong lol, but cheers for the advice and once parts arrive ill knock up that fsb and let u know how and if it flys lol
 
owenbglos said:
ur first mistake is listening to anything pc gamer tells u mate
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Think pc gamer are abit out of date on that one

Just have a look around these forums see what others post if your not sure, you will get the answers you need.
 
W1LL3y3 said:
cheers for the advice but parts was purchasd yesty lol, i heard on many a thread that arctic cooling freezer 7 can keep yeh really cool in fact i think its the best rated cooler in PcGamer, although i may be wrong lol, but cheers for the advice and once parts arrive ill knock up that fsb and let u know how and if it flys lol
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Well good luck :)

You know you can send things back if necessary. Especially if you bought it from where I think you did, just send it back unopened with a good reason and ask them to replace it with what you want + the extra on your ccard. They won't be upset :)
 
Lol am I the only one looking at that spec in the op and thinking he's just spanked a load of money on a below average system?

Gigabyte P31? Good value for money but seriously why not grab a P45 - theyre cheap as chips these days?

Q6600? Granted its a classic but the new 45nm clock harder/cooler?

Freezer 7? Well thats been mentioned

192 260? Why? They got the 216 which performs much better and is still a bargain!

800mhz RAM? ummmm...ever heard of PC8500? 1066Mhz...

Crap PSU?

Why the EcoGreen HD its a 5400RPM iirc? What aboot the F1s? They are ridiculous cheap on OcUK...
 
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Your basket

XFX GeForce GTX 260 XT "Core 216 55nm" 896MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £124.99
(£108.69) £124.99

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.33GHz 4MB-cache (1333FSB) Processor - Retail + World In Conflict PC Game £119.99
(£104.34) £119.99

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £93.99
(£81.73) £93.99

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £66.99
(£58.25) £66.99

OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply £54.99
(£47.82) £54.99

Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel (KHX8500D2K2/4G) £37.98
(£33.03) £37.98

Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775/LGA1366) £33.34
(£28.99) £33.34

Sub Total : £462.85
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
DPD Next Day Parcel
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £10.00
VAT is being charged at 15% VAT : £70.93

Total : £543.78
 
The reason for the 192, 260 was because i didnt order from OCuk, and there was a £60 price difference, obviously the PSU was my biggest mistake but it seems to be fine lol but will be replaced asap, unfortunatly there was a very strict budget due to me purchasing via finance, and it not being my account, theres nothing wrong with the q6600 it clocks amazingly is nice and stable and cool as a cucumber and the same goes for the Arctic cooler 7 im currently clocked at 3.4ghz and still keeping it cool to 34'c idle 48'c underload, as for the mobo its working ace's no problems at all overclocks fine plus it has a nice dual bios feature and is highly energy efficient, plus the p45 were jus to expensive as i said im on a strict budget, and as for the ram i already has 4gb of 800mhz ram so bought a matching pair to make it 8gb :) its running very stable at 4-4-4-12 , full system is running very cool indeed, running on vista x64 got 5.9 on all the scores but am gunna reinstall W7 x64 once the final rtm is out cos vista is soooooooooooooooooo slow compared its like an old man with arthritic knees
 
tbh after a couple of teething troubles its running really fast in vista now plus the w7 copy i have is now banned lol so genuine vista is good enough till RTM :P

only one problem im getting the PSU noise when mouse scrolls in firefox and generally when in game defo need t change me psu :(
 
I don't think your temps are right, what are you using to measure them? 48 under load with a q6600 @ 3.4 with the freezer 7 seems a bit low, especially with summer ambients.

34 Idle would put your CPU temps at about 5 above ambient, a bit too good for the freezer.

Also, how did you get your w7 key banned? Just request a new one surely.
 
sorry not been back for a while, had some family issues, erm my key wasnt banned i was using a dodgy copy which got banned lol serves me right i suppose, im running W7 ult x64 now and the system runs sweet :) am really happy altough i did replace the psu lol as the noise was a little more then distracting lol, as for temps i was using rivatuner if i remeber rightly but my case has excellent airflow with 2 excellent 120mm front fans, wot looks like a 10" pizza sized side fan lol 2 custom 120mm top fans and 2 80mm back exhaust fans and the way the case is set out maximizes the flow so theres a constant cold feed going directly to and only too the cpu while the other concentrates and the gfx card, and the top 2 are turned down as to not interupt to much but draw in a little more fresh air, i actually did a smoke test aswell to make sure it was flowing nicely as its unbeleivably quiet :S which it did :) anyways its still running very cool and when i get round ill post some pics :)
 
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