Unplanned upgrade after power problem

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Basically due to whatever electrical reason i lost my HDD Mobo and RAM. I was planning on upgrading soon anyway but i figure that i may as well go for it now.

Was planning to upgrade to a C2Duo rig and i'm a little off the pace with the C2Duo chips and motherboards and not sure which is best, especially it comes to RAM.

I understand that the DS3 and DS4s are quite good. Are there any Intel motherboards which support SLI, bearing in mind i have 2 7800GTs at the moment?

Could any of you spec me up RAM, CPU, Mobo and a HDD with £500 as a max. I am planning to overclock. Any pointers, ideas, specs etc would be appreciated as, like i said, i am not sure which is best at the moment.

Thanks
 
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        Product	                                                                        Price
CPU	Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz	                                £217.36
Mobo	Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard	        £88.11
RAM	GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit	£176.24
HDD	Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 NCQ 160GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM	                £37.59
		                                                                 Total: £519.30

How about this? Any good? Its a little over my budget, is there any way of keeping to budget by changing the RAM and not loosing performance? I want to keep the CPU and i want an SLI mobo... :confused:
 
Dark_Angel said:
Asus P6N-E (works with SLI!)
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While this board seems to be the only C2D SLI board available at the moment, a review in Custom PC says it is a poor overclocker and is very slow. Looks like it would be a bad idea for me to get this as i am planning to overclock but i do have two 7800GTs :(

You would really think there would be more C2D SLI boards as C2D is the most popular CPU chip and with these new 8800s... grrr
 
The only 650 board i can find is the 'Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard' but it has poor overclockability. Maybe i should look for a 680 board??
 
Yeah you are right, an extra £80 is a lot. I am still a little wary of getting this board even though that thread does make the board look very promising.

What are other people opinions on this board?

Edit: I'm sorry, i'm not careful enough, the one reviewed in Custom PC was an Asus P5N SLI whereas this one is a P5N-E SLI.
 
Dark_Angel said:
On VR-Zone, they have the board running 2 8800 GTS cards. THey say performance is a little lower (especially at high res) but its a great way to get SLI on the cheap.

*EDIT*

A link Review
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Thanks for the review, as im on a budget and unwilling to wait for prices to come down looks like ill be going for this board. Seems a good overclocker in the thread refered to above, and it seems ok with 2 x 8800s in SLi. This was my only worry, if i was to go SLi with two 8800s i didnt know what performance to expect as it has only two 8x slots in SLi.

hp7909 said:
Don't need a PSU?
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PSU survived, tested it in another system...
 
hp7909 said:
How? Because it shouldn't have, even cheapo ones would die with the system :confused: Or what was the 'electrical reason', static?

IMHO better include a good/reputable PSU in that budget or same thing might happen :)
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I don't know how it survived. :eek:

Like i said, i've tested the PSU and it seems fine.

I pressed the power button on my PC, powered up, then 1 sec later it turned off. I couldn't turn PC on for a few secs after then it powered up again and thats when i saw something was wrong,no fans spinning etc..... My S12 is a tough nut :)
 
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