Upgrade finalisation

willhub · 20 Jun 2007 at 19:37

Hi, well I had a few other threads about upgrading, but right now I am piecing together what I will hopefully be purchasing tommorow and arriving at my door on Friday.

Which option should I go for? What should I change, it seems all to be compatible, so only need to buy now the stuff now, just need osme oppinions

Here is what I have:

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Alex UK · 20 Jun 2007 at 19:50

This is what I'd go for personally...

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA804)
(£72.84) £61.99

Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
(£123.36) £104.99

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
(£17.61) £14.99

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
(£96.34) £81.99

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£54.04) £45.99

Sub Total : £309.95
Shipping : £8.95
VAT : £55.81
Total : £374.71

This gives you a P35 based motherboard which will support future 1333FSB CPU's, such as Penryn. The CPU cooler is the best for the price, and the WD SE16 drives are meant to be the best around at the moment.

willhub · 20 Jun 2007 at 19:55

Alex UK said:
This is what I'd go for personally...

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA804)
(£72.84) £61.99

Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
(£123.36) £104.99

Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
(£17.61) £14.99

Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
(£96.34) £81.99

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£54.04) £45.99

Sub Total : £309.95
Shipping : £8.95
VAT : £55.81
Total : £374.71

This gives you a P35 based motherboard which will support future 1333FSB CPU's, such as Penryn. The CPU cooler is the best for the price, and the WD SE16 drives are meant to be the best around at the moment.

But the P5NE SLi has future support for the Penryn, nice selection anyway, I'll consider that motherboard

willhub · 21 Jun 2007 at 06:55

Also, will the OCZ Vindicator fit this mobo?

ChrisD. · 21 Jun 2007 at 08:35

willhub said:
But the P5NE SLi has future support for the Penryn, nice selection anyway, I'll consider that motherboard

I didn't know that? I've go this board arriving soon, if that's the case then it's a bonus :cool:

melbourne720 · 21 Jun 2007 at 09:41

I'd get this if I were you:-

Intel Core 2 DUO E4400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£93.99)

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£79.89)

OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit
(£76.36)

Akasa AK-171 Copper RAM Heatsinks
(£7.04)

Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£69.31)

OCZ Vindicator Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
(£23.49)

Total : £360.60

willhub · 21 Jun 2007 at 10:02

melbourne720 said:
I'd get this if I were you:-

Intel Core 2 DUO E4400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail
(£93.99)

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(£79.89)

OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit
(£76.36)

Akasa AK-171 Copper RAM Heatsinks
(£7.04)

Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(£69.31)

OCZ Vindicator Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
(£23.49)

Total : £360.60

Will the C2D E4400 overclock well? And what about the ram? its OcUK stuff, even with ramsinks I would not think it would be a good overclocker surely?

Faster ram than the mobo supports tho will work wont they, the ram speed will just underclock to the maximum it supports right?

steve258 · 21 Jun 2007 at 10:14

willhub said:
But the P5NE SLi has future support for the Penryn

Does it now :confused:

I know it supports 1333FSB but Penryn? I'm not so sure...

willhub · 21 Jun 2007 at 10:18

steve258 said:
Does it now

I know it supports 1333FSB but Penryn? I'm not so sure...

Obviously it wont support it right now, but it will in the future if Asus updates the Bios on it which I would have thought they will do??

steve258 · 21 Jun 2007 at 10:22

Let's hope that is the case and ASUS won't try to rip us off by not releasing the BIOS forcing us to buy new mobo

melbourne720 · 21 Jun 2007 at 11:07

willhub said:
Will the C2D E4400 overclock well? And what about the ram? its OcUK stuff, even with ramsinks I would not think it would be a good overclocker surely?

The E4400s have a 10x multi, so they can overclock quite easily with only a small FSB jump on the motherboard, removing the need for quite so much NB cooling.

The OCuk RAM doesn't need to overclock, it is already running at more than 500MHz (1GHz DDR2). As your unlikely to get you FSB much above 500, then you already have all the bandwidth you need, plus your RAM won't hold back your overclock.

Why get the Ballistix if they might OC to 1GHz DDR2 when the OCuk are guaranteed to that value?

willhub said:
Faster ram than the mobo supports tho will work wont they, the ram speed will just underclock to the maximum it supports right?

Yep, or you can run it on a divider, like have the RAM running at 4:3 (4/3) the speed of the FSB.

I'm pretty sure that you can unlink the RAM with the 650 chipset, giving you complete flexibility.

willhub · 21 Jun 2007 at 13:43

Ok thanks for the info.

I have decided to stick with the Ballistix and E6600, I am confortable with overclocking the ram anyway

Cant get a HDD though as I dont actually have enough money because I never knew checks take 10 days to clear :mad: