What a performance! Gear finally ordered.

EvilGrin · 21 Jan 2007 at 22:14

Here's the gear I finally settled on, picked it all up from OCUK and one competitor.

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK)
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATAII/300 8.5ms 7200rpm 16MB Cache - OEM

Totals: £673.94 exc. VAT, £791.88 inc. VAT.

I'll be getting the VAT back in April too

Pretty chuffed at getting this setup for under £700! Getting free delivery from competitor so i'll have to wait about 5 working days for it - yeah i'm tight :/ Ah well it'll be worth the wait i'm sure!

Hades · 21 Jan 2007 at 22:33

Nice setup. Pretty similar to the one I'm considering. One thing though - mabe an E4300 would be better (for overclocking) than the E6300?

EvilGrin · 21 Jan 2007 at 23:20

Hades said:
Nice setup. Pretty similar to the one I'm considering. One thing though - mabe an E4300 would be better (for overclocking) than the E6300?

Picked up a retail 6300 for the same price as they have retail E4300's so decided to go for that. There's no real reason why the E4300 would be a better overclocker than the 6300 i don't think, it might not be quite so demanding on what type of ram you get, but thats about it i think.

Hades · 21 Jan 2007 at 23:22

EvilGrin said:
Picked up a retail 6300 for the same price as they have retail E4300's so decided to go for that. There's no real reason why the E4300 would be a better overclocker than the 6300 i don't think, it might not be quite so demanding on what type of ram you get, but thats about it i think.

Higher multi in the E4300 means lower FSB needed for the same overclock. So that means that with the same FSB, then potentially the E4300 could go faster than the E6300. If real world users get the same kind of overclocks as the reviewers then it seems to be the chip to go for.

EvilGrin · 22 Jan 2007 at 08:02

Hades said:
Higher multi in the E4300 means lower FSB needed for the same overclock. So that means that with the same FSB, then potentially the E4300 could go faster than the E6300. If real world users get the same kind of overclocks as the reviewers then it seems to be the chip to go for.

Fair enough, however i'm only planning to take my OC to 3+ Ghz which the 6300 should be more than capable of anyway, not too fussed about mega-oc's. Got the chip for the same price as a 4300 anyway, so pretty happy with that

Expandead · 22 Jan 2007 at 08:28

Could you not achieve the 3.0Ghz with standard cooling (provided with chip) ?

EvilGrin · 22 Jan 2007 at 09:16

Expandead said:
Could you not achieve the 3.0Ghz with standard cooling (provided with chip) ?

Yeah i'm sure I could, but i'll probably push it somewhat further to see how stable i can get it, probably no more than 3.5 though. Decided to get the tuniq just to make sure that the thing stays nice and cool.

EvilGrin · 22 Jan 2007 at 11:48

Hmm i'm now wondering whether the £30 invested in the tuniq would have been better off invested in crucial 10th anni instead of the OCZ? Hmm. Bah, shouldn't look back!