What do you think of my new rig?

morguk

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Hi guys been wanting to build my own rig for years. Finally got a temp job over xmas (now finished) and got £400. Ive ordered these parts which cost me £360. (Some i did'nt get from OCUK)

Intel core 2 duo e6750 (I chose this because i couldn't afford the Q6600 and it also has better performance than it in current games and applications, obviously excluding ones designed for quad core.)

Asus P5K Motherboard (Chose this for the features and good reviews. Although it doesn't have a 1600fsb like the x38 chipset it does have the 1333fsb, so i could upgrade to another great intel CPU in the future if needed.)

2gb Geil Black Dragon DDR2 800mh (Didnt even know it has cool red lights!)

NZXT Black Apollo case (Good looks and good price!)

OCZ stealthxstream 500w PSU (good price for amount of watts, and good name)

Samsung black DVD-RW

Samsung 320gb sata hard disk 16mb buffer (I wanted seagate 7200.10 :( ah well)

Vista Ultimate (Its genuine and i got it for free, thats all i can say)

ATI x1800 xl (My bro's old graphics card for free, will use it untill 98**'s are out)

What do you think? I am not going to overclock on this system, thats why i didnt go for the e21**'s. Also i like 4mb cache. I may overclock one day if i cant afford a new CPU and the current one is coping ;)
 
Good choices but would have gotten the normal Geil PC6400 ULL stuff for £30 tbh. The P5K may not officially support 1600FSB the chipset itself can certainly do that speed with ease, so you'll never know maybe ASUS will come up with an updated BIOS to support 1600FSB chips through overclock.
 
steve258 said:
Good choices but would have gotten the normal Geil PC6400 ULL stuff for £30 tbh. The P5K may not officially support 1600FSB the chipset itself can certainly do that speed with ease, so you'll never know maybe ASUS will come up with an updated BIOS to support 1600FSB chips through overclock.
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Excellent, never knew that!
Oh yeah the geil is one of the components i got from another website for £30. It has 8 layers or something too, so is meant to be good for overclocking if i chose too.
 
I have the black dragon, 2 x 2 gig 800, 5.5.5.15, and they are great, they do 4.4.4.12 at 400fsb 1.9V. The highest I've had them to is, 1000, 5.5.5.15 2.0v and they past prime memory test with ease. I haven't tried them any further (yet).
 
Servo said:
I have the black dragon, 2 x 2 gig 800, 5.5.5.15, and they are great, they do 4.4.4.12 at 400fsb 1.9V. The highest I've had them to is, 1000, 5.5.5.15 2.0v and they past prime memory test with ease. I haven't tried them any further (yet).
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Excellent! Does the red light look cool from them, can you see it much?
 
I have the same CPU (Although everything else is different) and can get 3.6ghz all day long with an Artic Silver with all the fans down to low. Its worth OC if you can. If you need help, ask. I did lol
 
blue4ice said:
I have the same CPU (Although everything else is different) and can get 3.6ghz all day long with an Artic Silver with all the fans down to low. Its worth OC if you can. If you need help, ask. I did lol
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Does overclocking shorten the CPU life? Do i have to overclock RAM when overclocking the CPU?

I would be interested if it was easy enough. My main concern would be an inconsistent/unstable system.
 
Overclocking shortens the CPU life slightly, but as long as you stay within sensible voltage and temperature ranges you'll never notice any change :)

I've run overclocked system for years and never had any problems.

You could change the ratio at which the RAM speed is compared to the CPU, so that it runs below its rated clock when the CPU is at stock and then goes up as the CPU is overclocked but never goes above what it's guaranteed to run at :)

It's very easy nowadays, there's so much help in the BIOS, even auto overclocking options!
 
prosser13 said:
Overclocking shortens the CPU life slightly, but as long as you stay within sensible voltage and temperature ranges you'll never notice any change :)

I've run overclocked system for years and never had any problems.

You could change the ratio at which the RAM speed is compared to the CPU, so that it runs below its rated clock when the CPU is at stock and then goes up as the CPU is overclocked but never goes above what it's guaranteed to run at :)

It's very easy nowadays, there's so much help in the BIOS, even auto overclocking options!
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Cool, cheers. What is the most basic option. Say i wanted my e6750 to run at 3gh. Can i just change litterally a few things to make it run at that speed? What would i change. Cheers for replys.
 
morguk said:
Cool, cheers. What is the most basic option. Say i wanted my e6750 to run at 3gh. Can i just change litterally a few things to make it run at that speed? What would i change. Cheers for replys.
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With a E6750, that should be pretty easy.

Put the RAM on a 1:1 ratio (may be called DDR2-667), up the CPU voltage 2 notches from stock, and set the FSB to 375mhz. Set the main RAM timings to 4-4-4-12 too.

When you boot into Windows, run CoreTemp, and then run Orthos - if your temperatures run above 70C, then reboot and lower the FSB by say 10 and the voltage a notch.

If Orthos fails but the temperatures are below 60C, up the voltage one notch, if Orthos fails but the temperatures are above 65C or so, drop the voltage by a notch and drop the FSB down to 350mhz.

Any problems just reset the BIOS (use a jumper to short out the two pins labelled CMOS clear) - this shouldn't harm your PC in anyway - I've done it many times with my E6300 - but I can't guarantee it as always of course
 
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