Will a SFF PC meet my needs?
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Thats great, think I've finally got a finished spec, now lets hope some of these items appear in tomorrows 'this week only' offers. 
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Due to stock availability and a few price changes I ended up ordering the following:-
Case - Silverstone Sugo SG03
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA G33M-S2
Memory - 4GB (4x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-12
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Cooler - Silverstone SST-NT06 Lite NT06 w/o 120mm fan. w/o fan controller AM2 RoHS
Harddrive - 500 Gb Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
GFX - Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI
PSU - Zalman ZM500-HP Heatpipe Cooled 500W Modular PSU
Case - Silverstone Sugo SG03
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA G33M-S2
Memory - 4GB (4x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5-5-5-12
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Cooler - Silverstone SST-NT06 Lite NT06 w/o 120mm fan. w/o fan controller AM2 RoHS
Harddrive - 500 Gb Western Digital WD5000AAKS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
GFX - Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI
PSU - Zalman ZM500-HP Heatpipe Cooled 500W Modular PSU
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Thanks for all the advice people, all turned up last week and I put it together. What surprised me was this was the first time ever that after assembling everything and powering it up it worked first time!
Normally something always needs to be re-connected/seated or some sort of issue with bios settings.
Vista x64 Ultimate installed and everything seems to be flying alone, al in all very impressed with it.
Normally something always needs to be re-connected/seated or some sort of issue with bios settings.
Vista x64 Ultimate installed and everything seems to be flying alone, al in all very impressed with it.
mxl
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GSXRMovistar said:
What is it like on the noise front now that you have had it for a while? Which is the loudest component and could you reasonably have made it quieter?
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Its fairly quiet, not silent but in no ways loud or disturbing. The loudest noise is the DVD drive when it has a disc in it but I tend to leave it empty where possible.mxl said:
Under standard load, ie browsing, media playback its fine but the noise does increase when say a game is running but I would normally have the speakers or headphone on there so I don't hear a thing.
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Not issues as yet, in fact so far this has been my most stable rig.Tute said:I take it the Q6600 has no problems running off the NT06 cooler?
That's very impressive for what is effectively a "passive" heatsink.