A small issue:

[Kinag]

I just ordered my 2219.90 EURO computer, but I was suppose to get the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor with 2.4ghz, but the thing is that they didn't get that before 1/10/2006 and I need the computer at the start of september.

I ordered the Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz 2MB instead and I'm wondering if that's good enough for a 3D design and animation computer (and of course for gaming)?

The E6600 has 2.4Ghz and 4MB instead :-s

Everything else is quite new on the market, reason it costs quite alot

Cheers

 

[Svartmetall]

Yes, it should be OK.

I'm curious - what else have you used on this system? Since I'm looking to make an E6600-based system myself...

 

[Kinag]

Geforce 7950GTX Extreme 1gb
600W PSU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz
2gb RAM 5400 (or 5300, not sure).

and lots of other stuff

 

[confused]

A cheaper CPU is obviously going to be slower than its bigger badder counter part, but any of the conroe chips are exceptionally fast so it should all be ok

BTW, what manufacturer was your psu and what mobo did you get

 

[DavidH]

Order the CPU you want from a different webshop?

 

[cHodAX]

You are losing 4%-6% performance tops, nothing to be hugely worried about. The only real penalty will be in apps that thrive on large amounts of cache, there you may see a slightly bigger performance hit but those kind of apps aren't the norm and general performance will still be great.

 

[Kinag]

A cheaper CPU is obviously going to be slower than its bigger badder counter part, but any of the conroe chips are exceptionally fast so it should all be ok

BTW, what manufacturer was your psu and what mobo did you get

Fotron Source 600W Epsilon Blue

and some kind of ASUS motherboard, cba to look it up atm

It's brand new atleast.

 

[Kinag]

Ahh back from a week vacation

Anyway, if the difference between an E6600 and 6400 is 4 - 6% then I guess it's no problem

Though I've tried to build the best computer I could at that time so I hope the CPU will fit quite good in the setup.

 

[Penlid]

I'm currently looking into a conroe rig, looking at benchmark tests of the E6300 and E6400 in almost most of them the E6400 overclocked performs better than the AMD FX-64 and the Intel Core 2 Duo E6800 Extreme. And also the E6300 overclocked can run better than an stock E6600.

Can i ask what motherboard your getting? I'm currently getting the Gigabyte DS 3 and most likely will upgrade when better boards come out for the conroe.

Other than that i think you are mad spending that much on a rig, i'm spending £850 maximum and the performance differance will be minimal.

Just for your interest here is what im going with:

MY-058-GL GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL) 1
£124.95 £124.95
MB-061-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-061-GI) 1
£91.99 £91.99
CD-045-LG LG GSA-H10NBAL 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-043-LG) 1
£20.50 £20.50
CP-127-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-127-IN) 1
£139.99 £139.99
HD-085-SE Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 200GB ST3200820AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-085-SE) 1
£45.95 £45.95
GX-047-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3056) (GX-047-CO) 1
£169.95 £169.95
CA-025-EN Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-025-EN) 1
£61.99 £61.99
CA-012-AN Antec Super LANBOY Aluminum Super Mini Tower Case - No PSU (CA-012-AN) 1
£29.95 £29.95
Subtotal £685.27
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £12.95
VAT £122.19
Total £820.41

This machine for me is also for rendering multimedia and playing games, and it will do just that at an intense rate.

Have you looked at benchmark tests for multimedia rendering? Give me a mo and i'll find one.

 

[Penlid]

This review here is what hooked me onto getting a 6400 or even a 6300 under a 6600, the 2mb cache won't make too much of a differance.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2802&p=1

 

[Kinag]

Asus P5B, P965, Socket-775, ATX

That's the Motherboard I'm getting.

 

[Penlid]

Yea thats a good board also, about the same price as the DS3 from Gigabyte just a few more features

 

[Kinag]

Was a bit unsure about the Motherboards, don't really know that much about them ^^

Just hope I can use my XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 1GB with it, but I'm also unsure of the cable from my LCD screen to the GFX card as it doesn't seem to be the same cable end.

Might be some kind of replacer which is being sent together with the card.

 

[Penlid]

Maybe its a dvi cable to vga on your current card, i ordered a dual link dvi m2f cable for my monitor. If you have the cash its worth it.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-8M-DVI-D-DU...ryZ41999QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Look at the dvi connnecter picture near the bottom, is your connecter like one of those?

 

[Kinag]

The one on my screen is like the one to the right and the one on the GFX card seems to fit the one to the left on that picture.

I'm pretty sure there is a replacer which is coming with the card however, always done that before if you would ever need it.