Upgrade Advice

tomanders91

tomanders91

tomanders91

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This is my current computer:

E6400 with stock heatsink running at stock
2gb of generic/randon 667mhz ram
8800gts 640
Foxconn 775 mobo
thermaltake 550w psu

was a prebuilt system

i cant overclock on this board or with this psu so im thinking of upgrading everything. This is what ive got:




I was going to go with the gigabyte P35 board or the cheap abit £60 something one but ive heard they have problems (boot issues with te abit, general problems with eh gigabyte), is this one any good? I did want to keep it under £400 but i might not be able to. Also this PSU is up to the job of powering an overclocked quad, 4gb and the 2 hardrives i have isnt it? Corsairs are ment to be very stable and reliable. My 8800gts 640 is fine since i only game at 1440x900 so that will be fine for a while, i will be running vista 64bit.

Any suggestions/comments? Thats everything i need there.
 
It's work. If it were me I'd take a second look at the Gigabytes since they offer greater overclocking potential than the P5K vanilla. I'd also look for a meatier CPU heatsink like the Tuniq Tower.
 
i would get a tuniq, but im not entirely sure if it would fit ok in my case (thermaltake aguila, on ocuk for about £60), i no the artic isnt the greatest for cooling quads, but its ok, im planning on overclocking the Q6600 to about 3ghz, and ive seen people with artics and quads running at 3.2-3.4 and temps are fine. Not sure about the gigabyte's though.

But cheers for the suggestions anyway :)
 
yeah the ballistix pushs the price up for me too much.

This is also the last day the geil will be at that price wont it? Im 16 so i need to save as much money as possible lol :p.

edit: THe cable tidy kit is just there because i think it might make things a little easier.

This is also the first time ive done a major upgrade, the only thing ive ever done in the past is put some new ram in, and replace my old geforce 4 mx with a x1600pro agp ages ago lol :P
 
actually, just thinking, would it be best to maybe buy all that but not the quad, and just keep my e6400 for a little longer and actually overclock a bit, then get one of the new quads next year, or a q6600 when their cheaper?
 
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