yet another new pc thread.

[Ch3tan]

So Wij has convinced me to get a new pc.

So far I have:

http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=605915
http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=605805
http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=606271
http://www.tekheads.co.uk/s/product?product=604924

Now anyone tell me if the case is good, or if there is something better I can get for not a lot more?

Is it worth getting the 6600 conroe rather than the 6400?

Is the mobo any good? Can anyone suggest a better one for these components?

Memory will be 2gb of whatever I feel I can afford, most probably the geil stuff Wij got.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Geil_DDR2_Memory.html

 

[inactionman]

Not sure about the rest, but wait a few days on the graphics card. Nvidia's next gen card is out at the end of the week and that should make everything else a lot cheaper, including ATI cards!

The case is good (a friend has it), but a bit fiddly inside (ducts and thumbscrews galore). Also Antec's RMA process is shite (long story about my friend's PSU that came with the case and developed a fault) although the quality of the stuff is good.

 

[Ch3tan]

What card is that?

 

[inactionman]

The 8800, the first DirectX10 graphics card.

 

[Clown]

I like that case, I had the original revision of the Sonata. It was nice and quiet, and the sideways HD mounts were good (if you always swapping them out). It seemed nice and cool and the 120mm fans kept it quiet.

Apparently the E6300 is a good buy as they overclock to around the same limits that the E6600 can overclock to.

 

[Trem]

Same case as me Ch3t. I like it apart from the door and I didn't bother with the air duct thing, just left it off.

Blue lights ftw.

 

[Mazling]

These days - even though I've not bought a new gfx card since ages past - it always seems to be the wrong time to buy a new gfx card. For how long will they keep throwing out new cards for us to stare at on our intarweb screens in misery?

 

[Clown]

Blue lights ftw.

I disagree. The lights were far too bright. I unhooked them

 

[Trem]

I disagree. The lights were far too bright. I unhooked them

They allow me to leave the room with all the lights off as my pc is shutting down.

I've always been a sucker for a blue light(vein).

 

[Ch3tan]

I have a bright blue led on my shuttle, so I will miss it less with the blueness of this one

 

[Ch3tan]

Well I have ordered some of the bits, Overclockers had the geil memory on special for £140 ex VAT. I would have ordered the rest, but microdirects website doesnt work properly and has created an order that I have not paid for.

From MD:
1 x Zalman CNPS9500-LED Socket 478/754/775/939/940 @ £27.80(32.66) each.
1 x Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz 1066FSB LGA775 2MB cache Retail inc.Fan (3yr Manufacturers Warranty) @ £125.99(148.04) each.
1 x Sapphire Radeon X1950XTX 512MB DDR4, PCI-E, Dual DVI, VIVO, Retail @ £247.50(290.81) each.
1 x 74 GB Western Digital Raptor 10K rpm SATA HDD 16MB cache OEM @ £93.50(109.86) each.
1 x Gigabyte GA-8I965P-DS3 SKT 775 P965 Chipset PCI-E, DDR2, SATA2 GB LAN, 8ch Audio, USB2, ATX @ £84.20(98.93) each.
1 x Lite-on DVD8900 Black 16x DL DVD ±R/RW RAM oem @ £15.49(18.20) each.
1 x Antec Sonata II Ultra Quiet Midi Tower Piano Black inc 450W PSU (Front access USB & F/Wire, 9 Drive Bays) @ £66.95(78.67) each.

from OCUK:

£139.99 x 1 - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) (MY-058-GL)
£24.99 x 1 - Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 - Retail (KB-060-MS)
£6.00 x 1 - Western Digital WDSC50RCW Secure Connect Serial ATA Cable (CB-000-WD)
£5.99 x 1 - Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)

w00t. As soon as microdirect actually sort out me paying for there bits I will be a happy gamer.

 

[inactionman]

Looks fine. Although I'm selling a 74Gb raptor on fleabay, you could have picked that up from me.

 

[Ch3tan]

Linky? I may still, was going to buy a second later on. Would rather have a new drive as my main one though.

 

[inactionman]

Here, this should work. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/74GB-Western-...ryZ16178QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Ch3tan]

Wow. No problems at all building and installing.

Soo quiet, soo fast and soo much cooler than my old pc as well. I am going to enjoy gaming on this for a while

 

[Ch3tan]

Wow. No problems at all building and installing.

Soo quiet, soo fast and soo much cooler than my old pc as well. I am going to enjoy gaming on this for a while

 

[Clown]

Your PC is so shit that you're double posting. C*nt.

 

[Ch3tan]

I love you too clown.

 

[Chilly]

we had a couple of those raptors where I used to work (well, we had 4). and had the fuckers on an esata bridge through some custom silicon to stripe all four disks together. Hell yes. We were getting fucking silly speeds out of that array.

 

[Wij]

Wow. No problems at all building and installing.

Soo quiet, soo fast and soo much cooler than my old pc as well. I am going to enjoy gaming on this for a while

Cool - now start overclocking that Core2 beauty

(currently at 3 gig. very cool.)

 

[Ch3tan]

I went up to 2.6 ish, just for benchmarking - I don't see the need to oc until I need the extra performance

I'm currently getting 46c st max load on the cpu, 36c idle. Quality!

 

[Wij]

I went up to 2.6 ish, just for benchmarking - I don't see the need to oc until I need the extra performance

I'm currently getting 46c st max load on the cpu, 36c idle. Quality!

You using Coretemp ?

 

[Ch3tan]

Thats with speedfan.

What you using to monitor, and what voltages and fsb settings have you got? The geil gets unstable at rated timings and voltage if i push to close to 900.

 

[Wij]

Thats with speedfan.

What you using to monitor, and what voltages and fsb settings have you got? The geil gets unstable at rated timings and voltage if i push to close to 900.

Use Coretemp to test temperature. You have 2 cores to monitor

Can't remember most stuff. Go to the guide on forums at TomsHardware.

 

[Ch3tan]

Coretemp shows between 40-45 at max load.

 

[Ch3tan]

OKay, 53c underload @ 3gig.

Damn you for making me overclock, I'm all obsessed with benchmarks now

 

[Wij]

OKay, 53c underload @ 3gig.

Damn you for making me overclock, I'm all obsessed with benchmarks now

You using two Prime95 instances to get both cores at 100% ?

 

[Ch3tan]

I'm using the dual core version of Orthos.

I pushed it to 3.2gig before I got an error, not ready to raise the voltage and get it stable just yet, quite happy with the performance results at 3gig.

What temps are you getting?

 

[Wij]

Similar. One core at 52 and one at 53

 

[Ch3tan]

Did you install the silly apac system in the case?

Bloody thing wouldn't fit properly over the zalman!