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Post subject:  Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 3:47 pm |
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So dopes that mean if you had the choice you would spend the extra £50 quid on a 6600 chip or stick with a 6400 chip. (sorry for thread hijack btw).
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:03 pm |
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Tao=GCHQ= wrote: So dopes that mean if you had the choice you would spend the extra £50 quid on a 6600 chip or stick with a 6400 chip. (sorry for thread hijack btw).
Depends how you feel about overclocking. Saving the extra money on something that you could easily gain without the extra cash is nice.
There isn't alot of difference between the 2MB and 4MB, minimal performance difference apparently.
So if you wanna save youself the money, go for an E6300 or E6400 and overclock it. Just be sure to read up before overclocking and get a decent CPU Heatsink.  _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:07 pm |
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the difference in stability between the 6300 and 6400 is going to be pretty marginal too - depends on the price difference tbh. That said, my 6300 can cope with pretty much anything you throw at it without OCing
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:22 pm |
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Gah...more stuff added >.<
I'd like to get the stuff ordered tonight......but I want to know the exact set up to go for.....
If the setup there will provide good FPS in games....run well and leaves the way open for future upgrades without replacing the whole thing...then it's fine.
Just want to get it and play a game without anything wrong with it...  (CSS lag.....DC sound problems, BF2 actually play it...etc)
Price really isn't bothering really, I'd rather get the 6600 as I wouldn't want to over clock it at this time...
Don't want to see my first actually comp go poof from making a mistake.
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:06 pm |
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have you got a price limit?if you want to spend more and you have to have it now,get an evga 8800gts @£215...cant go wrong
i would rather pay the extra for the 6600 to
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:07 pm |
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I'd think about changing the mboard from the Abit one, I'm going for an Asus P5b for a similair setup. Always found Asus boards to be rock solid.
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:51 pm |
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Tao=GCHQ= wrote: I'd think about changing the mboard from the Abit one, I'm going for an Asus P5b for a similair setup. Always found Asus boards to be rock solid.
I always had a bad impression of Asus, but only cos my asus mobo had a Via (cringe) chipset...
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:05 pm |
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Had three now, two on old pc's that have been given away and are still running fine, which makes one of them about 8yrs old or more, (had a early celeron chip), all of them have been really good performance wise, well behaved boards, last two have been Nforce chipsets, cant remember the first.
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:08 pm |
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o-iii<0 8ilbo=GCHQ= wrote: Tao=GCHQ= wrote: I'd think about changing the mboard from the Abit one, I'm going for an Asus P5b for a similair setup. Always found Asus boards to be rock solid. I always had a bad impression of Asus, but only cos my asus mobo had a Via (cringe) chipset... A7V8X ftw still going strong at my bros house
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:34 pm |
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*Duh duh duh duh duh*
*Drum Roll*
I just ordered it. 
It's complete bar the stuff i was leaving out, neon, network card etc.
And I've left the monitor out for now......I'm getting £150 this Friday...and about £400-500 a week Friday.
So I'll be ordering it and a few games then. (BF2, C&C3, etc)
Quote: 1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4ghz) Socket 775 FSB1066 4MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor 112706 Not Allocated £149.98 £149.98
1 x Belkin SurgeMaster, 4-Way, 2m Cable (£25,000 Warranty) 45272 Not Allocated £3.39 £3.39
1 x Arctic Cooling Super Silent 4 Ultra TC (Ceramic Bearings 6 Yrs) Retail Box 74456 Not Allocated £4.50 £4.50
1 x Coolermaster Aerogate 4x Fan Controller - Silver Aluminium 124870 Not Allocated £4.24 £4.24
1 x HP DVD940i 18x SuperMulti DVD±RW/RAM Lightscribe Black Retail Box 119565 Not Allocated £19.99 £19.99
2 x Seagate 7200.10 320GB SATAII/300 8.5ms 7200RPM 16MB Cache - OEM 115418 Not Allocated £44.45 £88.90
1 x Antec NEO HE550GB 550W Modular PSU With 80mm Low Speed/noise Fan 18db 99138 Not Allocated £52.20 £52.20
1 x Sapphire X1950Pro 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI VIVO AGP 119956 Not Allocated £117.39 £117.39
1 x Antec Nine Hundred - Gaming Case with 200mm Top Fan - No PSU 118268 Not Allocated £57.86 £57.86
1 x Corsair (TWIN2X2048-6400) XMS2-6400 2048MB 5-5-5-12 2X240 DIMM Black XMS2 Heat Spreader 98710 Not Allocated £102.11 £102.11
1 x Asus P5B-E Socket 775 I965p onboard audio FSB1066 ATX 117623 Not Allocated £70.17 £70.17
1 x Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music OEM Soundcard 112512 Not Allocated £42.54 £42.54
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:35 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:46 pm |
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Very nice.
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:01 pm |
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ive just ordered the same case as you ,is it any good?
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:07 pm |
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...flatline... wrote: ive just ordered the same case as you ,is it any good?
Case = Oh yes!!!
Lovely case
However!
With my mobo, I didn't use the brass spacers and so my graphics card doesn't fit right (atleast I don't think so, wil have to try new one once it arrives) so some back plate snipping may be required........depends on your mobo though.
My mob if I had it on brass spacers would make the slots too high for case's backplate.
Very nice case though, really good air flow nice and sturdy looks good too.
You also get a little mat to put in the little bay at the top. 
As I said about graphics though......it may have gone in right but it's not a PCI card so it won't work.
So the card might actually go in no bother really and it was just the fact it's wrong type of card that stopped it working. _________________ [SNIGG] Sniggerdly | Ask me about how awesome I am at EvE |
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Post subject: Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:13 pm |
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is it loud and did you fit anymore fans?
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