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Usual Suspect

Usual Suspect

Usual Suspect

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ive got about £1200 to spend. I need a system for pure gaming. Would be interesting in overclocking but nothing extreem. Dont need any harddrives as i have 2*200gig SATA drives already.

Can someone spec me a PC for around that price.
 
Whats use the PC be for?
Do you want to overlock?
Do you mind waiting or do you need parts right now? (New intel cpu's out very soon)
Is noise a factor?
 
Gaming only. I will overclock (air) a little. Yeah was gunna wait for conroe but im not sure which model to pre order/mobo to go for (theres a few conroe mobo's already showing). Memory has got me a little stumped. Never really figured out what the advantages/dis of memory. power supply? etc
 
Aside from that good advice by fender I'd suggest that on the graphics front you go for a 7900gt if you get a nForce5 board or a x1900xt if you get an Intel or ATI board.
 
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)
£252.57
Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)
£176.19
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 ZX PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBZX) (MY-011-GS)
£176.19
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-112-SP)
£260.79
NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE)
£25.79
Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940, LGA755) (HS-003-SY)
£31.67
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-054-LL)
£57.52
Tagan TG580-U15 580W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-009-TG)
£82.19

Total inc VAT: £1,062.91

Lovely gaming rig, should cream anything you throw at it. This motherboard + RAM combo will let you overclock well beyond 3GHz on air. Plus it's Crossfire ready. Motherboard comes with lots of extra features which you may find useful. But I would buy the G.Skill PC2-6400 HZ kit which will be available next week because it overclocks very well. Last but not least, you have plenty of change left :)
 
Sounds just about what i was thinking off. couple of things though.

Power supply. Is this overkill for a single GPU system? Seems a lot to be spending on a power supply? Also If i was to go for a crossfire solution do you need a more powerful power supply. (i know the GF range us less power but ill probably stick to the ATI for the AA + HDR)

The memory. Is there any real point getting such expensive memory if im only going to overclock a bit. When i overclock my PC i tend to overclock it for perm usaged. So a very safe and stable overclock, rather than pushing the overclock as far as it will go to see what i can get out of it. Dont think many overclockers use there systems at max overclock all the time do they?

My last motherboard was a asus p4c 800 e Deluxe and to be honest ive had several problems with the bios going missing and me having to reflash it. Last time it took 30+ flashes to finally fix itself. Oh and if i remove the overclock back down to 2.8ghz, currently overclocked to 3.2ghz, the system tells me that the overclock has failed?? This might of been a one off, who are leading the market for mobos these days?
 
Usual Suspect said:
Sounds just about what i was thinking off. couple of things though.

Power supply. Is this overkill for a single GPU system? Seems a lot to be spending on a power supply? Also If i was to go for a crossfire solution do you need a more powerful power supply. (i know the GF range us less power but ill probably stick to the ATI for the AA + HDR)
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Not really, you'll probably want around 450-500W for that spec just to be on the safe side. If you Crossfire later on, you will need a beefy PSU to handle it. Buy a good one now and you don't have to worry about buying another power supply later on. So, it's "future-proof". :)


Usual Suspect said:
The memory. Is there any real point getting such expensive memory if im only going to overclock a bit. When i overclock my PC i tend to overclock it for perm usaged. So a very safe and stable overclock, rather than pushing the overclock as far as it will go to see what i can get out of it. Dont think many overclockers use there systems at max overclock all the time do they?
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Well, have a look at this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17592348
...and decide how far you want to overclock the E6600. If you feel that PC2-5300 is enough for your overclocking needs, then just change the RAM to G.Skill 2GB DDR2 LA PC2-5300.


Usual Suspect said:
My last motherboard was a asus p4c 800 e Deluxe and to be honest ive had several problems with the bios going missing and me having to reflash it. Last time it took 30+ flashes to finally fix itself. Oh and if i remove the overclock back down to 2.8ghz, currently overclocked to 3.2ghz, the system tells me that the overclock has failed?? This might of been a one off, who are leading the market for mobos these days?
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No real "leaders" as such, but you can't go wrong with most of them these days. Asus is certainly very well respected on the Intel platform.
 
I think you should get 700W if going cross-fire. I'm getting a single X1900XT but only going for the 530W Tagan.

I would go for the G.skill PC5300 because it's at such a good price for DDR2 RAM.

Asus do have a good reputation as far as reliability and stability go, but their overclockability isn't great. DFI are renouwned for their overclockability. Another good brand that sits inbetween those two are MSI and Epox.
 
Dureth said:
Aside from that good advice by fender I'd suggest that on the graphics front you go for a 7900gt if you get a nForce5 board or a x1900xt if you get an Intel or ATI board.
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And whys that then?...... are you under assumption nvidia cards work better on nvidia boards?..... or that ATI's dont perform on nvidia chipset boards?.... because i can tell you now, if thats the case, you are wrong.
 
t31os said:
And whys that then?...... are you under assumption nvidia cards work better on nvidia boards?..... or that ATI's dont perform on nvidia chipset boards?.... because i can tell you now, if thats the case, you are wrong.
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No, it's just that if you have an nvidia card on an nvidia board, you have the choice of SLi later on. Same thing with ATI cards with ATI boards.
 
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