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blairw

blairw

blairw

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Just about to order this, will be housed in a p180 with a 450 watt antec psu - any comments / suggestions for around the same price?



AKASA 24 Pin (M) to 20+4 Pin (F) Extension cable (30cm) (End to End) - AK-CB24-24-EXT £3.49 £4.01
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Akasa 8 Pin (F) to 8 Pin (2x4 Pin) (M) Extension cable (30cm) (End to End) AK-CB8-8-EXT £2.99 £3.44
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4GB Corsair (2x2GB) TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-18 £33.49 £38.51
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Intel Pentium Dual-Core, E5200, Socket 775, Wolfdale Core, 2x2.5 GHz, 2MB Cache, Retail £55.49 £63.81
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Gigabyte GA-EP31-DS3L, iP31 Express, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 1066/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £44.47 £51.14
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512MB Gigabyte HD 4670, PCI-E 2.0(x16), 2000MHz GDDR3, GPU 750MHz, 320 Cores, D-Sub/ DL DVI-I/ HDMI £57.60 £66.24


Thanks!
 
E5200 are a good processor, but it might do you good in the long run if you can stretch to an E7300. If not however it looks like a reasonably good system and should run most modern games on medium settings. I'm not sure if you need all those extension cables however, but then again I don't know much about the case.
 
That is a good balanced spec. You have picked an excellent budget cpu and the EP31-DS3L is a fantastic board. If you will be overclocking you need a half decent cooler if you don't already have one. The Akasa AK-965 is every bit as good as the now stupidly priced (on here anyway) Freezer 7 Pro. That set up will easily get you past 3.2Ghz and further if the cpu allows it.
 
Went for it, tried to give all round performance for a good price, if it gets me hooked on games again i will go for a better card at the end of january (and power supply!) if not i will have a fast performing desktop machine for everything else.
Will pick up a cooler for the cpu once the christmas dust settles.
 
Can only seem to get the computer to boot using 1 stick of ram, tried every combination so far, memory problem or motherboard you rekon?
 
I am going to try the voltage thing again today with the one stick i didnt get to work... mind you the system is such an upgrade from my old one that with only one stick working its night and day! Looking forward to the new case tho :D
 
Make sure you put the Dimms in the correct slots. That board only supports 4 single sided Dimms or 2 double sided Dimms.

2GB Dimms will be double sided so they need to be spaced on opposing channels

One stick in DDRII1 or DDRII2
Second Stick in DDRII3 or DDRII4

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Yeah tried that mate thanks, thing is it one boot up with one of the sticks just by its self so its looking like a problem with that stick of ram :(
 
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