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The Boxer

The Boxer

The Boxer

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Hi All

I know this may not be a good time to upgrade, but my 5 year old p4 seems to be giving up the will to live, so looks like I'm going to be forced to do a quick rebuild, I cannot afford to let the pc die "totally".

So maybe.....

Abit IX quad GT
8800GT
CPU Quad or Duo ??????
Mem 2 gigs 8500 Corsair, Geil, OCZ or Crucial ?????.

The rest of my sys should do for now OCZ 600 Game Xtreme, Raptor split for system and Games, Seagate photo/Music storage (both sata)

I only play a few games nowadays and nothing too heavy, I do like clocking and getting a little extra for free, this build needs to do about 3 years if poss, I will stick with 2 gigs mem and Win XP for now, so is there some memory which really goes well on the Abit IX and do I need quad or go for 3.0 gig Duo core (I don't edit).


ps, what about a decent, not too loud cooler, TT?? or is the stock cooler upto it.
Regards Box.
:D
 
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If you want it to last longer term then quad core probably makes more sense so a Q6600 at ~£115 is a bit of a bargain. I'd pair that with 4gb of decent PC6400 which will be fine unless you are going for a 1333mhz FSB CPU or trying to hit over 3.6ghz - Corsair, G.Skill and Geil all do good options below £70.

That is a bit of an expensive motherboard unless you are thinking about Crossfire in the future, something P45 based might be rather better for your needs. Finally I'd change the graphics card to an ATI 4850 unless you've got a special fondness for Nvidia, it is a better graphics card and not that much more expensive.

The stock cooler would be fine for mild overclocking but for anything much more than that I'd suggest an aftermarket cooler - the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro at the cheap end of the market or the Tuniq Tower, Noctua NH-U12P, Scythe Ninja at the more expensive.
 
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