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wentalong

wentalong

wentalong

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Hey all,

just asking for your opinion on a bundle ive been offered, it's a E8400, ASUS Striker 2 Formula, Artic Freezer Pro 7 And 4GB DDR2 Ballistix Ram for £120 but i can most likely get it for £100, the motherboard and CPU dont have boxes and only have the LCD Poster and the manuals for the CPU and Mobo, So no IO sheld or Sound Card etc,,,

im thinking of buying this and maybe selling it on for more money and making a profit to go towards my i5 Build Or BD build dependant on how BD is or just keeping it for my main rig if this CPU is satisfactory for my needs (fairly heavy gaming) ive looked up a few reviews and the cpu beats / comes close to a few quad cores in most games,

what do you reccommend i do? thanks for and help/suggestions, much appreciated! :)
 
personally i think that is a fantastic deal, but i doubt youd make enough profit for it to be worthwhile for an i5 build...
 
It's a pretty good deal.

If you are currently using a AMD X2 4400+ system then this will be a pretty big step up.

Also, if you are thinking of selling on then the 780i boards like the striker 2 sell for a premium since they are among the few that support both 45nm chips and quad cores while also offering SLI. Considering the second-hand price of a E8400 chip and 4GB DDR2 then £120 is great and £100 would be amazing.
 
its not all that could get a cheap quad core deal for that and that mobo is total rubbish trust me i owned one its 780i which makes as much heat as supernova and they decided to passively cool it mine alwasy idled about 60 and could NOT overclock my quad core at all due to poor overclocking from the 780i and constant shutdowns due overheating have a look through the web truely one off the worst mobos ever :o
 
thanks for all the advice guys :) really helps a lot! :) and Mr. May, im going to look up a few reviews on the board later and see what i can dig up, and if the board runs that hot then i might stick a few chipset cooling fans on there if it's that much of a problem, im thinking of using this as a main rig until bulldozer or buying this and using it until Ivybridge, do you think this cpu will hold out until early next year?

also stu,

i dont mean to be offensive or mean in any way here but what you posted had nothing to do with the threads topic and i beleive was purely posted to spite/humiliate me, and to be honest im in no mood to take these sarcastic immature comments from you and so i will be the bigger man here and make nothing of it, you also need to understand that money is extremely hard to come by for a 15 year old student who doesnt get any from his parents apart from when he works for it, and so im sorry i dont have money to buy a brilliant PC like you do, this is why when i look to buy anything for my PC or anything fairly expensive it has to be Future proof, best performance for price, and likely to last a long time... and so that is why you've seen the threads ive made because im asking for opinions and help and advice from everyone, and the snide remarks you sometimes put arent advice so i would greatly appreciate it if you no longer comment on my threads unless you have some half decent advice for me that will help me learn and understand more about PC's. i dont know you, and i have no reason to dislike you and so i would love for you to help me out as you are OCuK's spec me king and know a great deal more about pc's than i do but comments like some of the comments you've put to me in the past get us no where, thanks stu,
 
dont worry about it as the idea off these fourms are advice i rember when i had my 1st system speced off here when i was 15 and still got it lol good old a8n-sli with a 3000+ cpu lol :D

but back on topic i would seriously try for a quad core as dual core being phased out now and will seriously struggle in upcoming games you've got over 250 post now so you should have access to the members market some brilliant deals in there defo worth a look a x2 550 BE which would unlock to a quad went for under £50 a month or so ago iam sure you could get a good mobo and ddr3 ram for £70 making up to the budget off £120

even b grade is a good place to look if you dont mind it being micro atx this would be a better bet



true quad core which would be easy to overclock 4 gb of ddr3 ram for £137 that would be a lot better and can always keep the ram for the next build ;)

what spec are you running atm ?
 
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Thanks for the help!!!! :) :) after a while on the phone i managed to get it down to £100!! :D too good an offer to refuse! will certainly be uploading a build log when i pick it up :) thanks so much for the help everyone!!!!! :)
 
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