Which Machine is for me! Dual v Quad

ahh cool, best get me some connectors too eh

thanx for all your help already... think im gonna go order.. WELL after a coffee maybe and a deep breath
 
WELL I DONE IT!!!

£400.74 delivered!!! without the additional firewire card.. Talk about BANG ON TARGET!!

Found another card with 4x usb 2x firewire for 9.99 i will add at a later date!

thanx again for all your help.. ROLL ON Wednesday!!
 
Hey, I have decided to build this beast myself... Quick question

im just about to fit my CPU X6000, But noticed i don't seem to have any thermal past included with the package?? Does that mean it dont need it? or should i go get some??
 
Yes, the thermal paste is on the bottom of the cooler.
Be sure to match the triangle in the corner of the CPU with the triangle in the corner of the socket when fitting it.
If you are doing it all for the first time do not forget to mount the motherboard on the little brass standoffs into the case - do not screw the motherboard directly to the case - seen a couple of people on here make that mistake recently.
 
Also don't forget the 4/8 Pin power for the cpu as well as the 24 pin ATX connector.
Take your time and double check the manual.
Good Luck :)
 
bigdm said:
...i really don't no about the overclocking. Its not something i would be to keen on doing in the long term. A little boost is nice, but anything more i think would just shorten the life of the chip to much to benefit from it...
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I don't think this is the case, over the last 15 years or so I've had a Pentium 60 running at 66MHz, P150 running at 187MHz, Celeron 300A at 464MHz, AMD TBird 1GHz at 1.4GHz, P4Northwood 2.8 at 3.2GHz, an E4300 1.8 at 3.4GHz...

All machines overclocked as far as they remained stable without doing anything really exotic, all machines run for at least 2 years, some 5 years+. I've never experienced any kind of shortened life. In fact the only computer components that have ever failed on me have been a couple of hard drivers a few years ago.

My rule of thumb is that if it's stable it's fine.
 
Will be running XP, Mainly used for Photoshop, Video Editing / Encoding and Web design apps. But would like to play the odd game of call of duty, CS etc. Don't want to feel like a dinosaur when the next big game comes out
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I really think you should save up and get the Tri-Core.

Its better clock-for-clock than the dual, overclocks a lot, and performs better at multithreaded scenarios.

Overclocking to 3.2GHz will be safe, and will get you a nice boost over anything else. Keep in mind that it can go up to 3.8Ghz for some people, still on air cooling :)
 
to late, already got the dual... To be fair i should have sat back and saved.. But like most men.. I JUST COULDNT WAIT.. plus i set a budget and wanted to stick to it..

in other news........ IM ALL BUILT!! and installing XP as we speak!!

to be fair, it did go pretty smoothly, up untill this last 5mins.. When i realised i should have put the back plate on the case before i fitted the motherboard!! Whooops!

i have treid to loosen everything and slide it in, but no joy.. Just a cut thumb! So for today, we are running without it.. *yes, i am eyeing up the ductape to seal the hole lol
 
clv101 said:
I don't think this is the case, over the last 15 years or so I've had a Pentium 60 running at 66MHz, P150 running at 187MHz, Celeron 300A at 464MHz, AMD TBird 1GHz at 1.4GHz, P4Northwood 2.8 at 3.2GHz, an E4300 1.8 at 3.4GHz...

All machines overclocked as far as they remained stable without doing anything really exotic, all machines run for at least 2 years, some 5 years+. I've never experienced any kind of shortened life. In fact the only computer components that have ever failed on me have been a couple of hard drivers a few years ago.

My rule of thumb is that if it's stable it's fine.
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im just going by my experience, which is very little i will admit.. I had my x4600 running at 2.8 instead of 2.4.. air cooled.. Was fine for along time.. totally stable but in the last 6months its been playing up.. Every day useage it will be fine, but u put it under some serious pressure and it will just die on me

i done ram checks and hd checks all seemed fine.. It never completed a cpu check.. Maybe i just got unlucky, but my theory is that it just got cained! to hard
 
I’m 54yrs old hence the handle Oldphart, if I can build a PC any one can there’s no big mystery about it. Same with installing your OS and driver’s, there’s plenty help here from the forum and online Google is your friend. Just take your time and check it over before you turn it on, just make sure everything connections, memory, etc is pressed fully home.
 
Ow i totally agree, I work on computers everyday. I can install configure optermise and cure almost everything.. BUT always refused to even look inside the case

I'm happy to say, it was as easy as i thought! Although when it comes to the components etc, im glad i had some helpful OC's to point me in the right direction

... sitting on the all new box, running nice, fast and quiet!

*install........... reboot... install... reboot.. DO I REALLY need all these apps!
 
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