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6. February 2008 @ 20:53 |
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6. February 2008 @ 21:29 |
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Doug,
I did a quick search and found the Core 2 Quad 6600 and ASUS P5N32-SLi for about £270 including VAT. The deal you're looking at is £250 with shipping but does that include VAT?? I don't know how it works in the UK, but if you buy stuff in the same state in the US you have to pay sales tax. ;)
PLUS if you buy from a "trusted" vendor you get warranties and such. something to think about. ;)
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6. February 2008 @ 21:35 |
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dougal79,
I can tell you this much! Avoid the no name MB! It's a piece of junk! Any MB that has only two memory slots is a real cheepie! The one with the Asus MB is the better of the two by far!
Mystery solved! It's a cheap $50 BioStar MB!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138089
I don't even use something that cheap for business machines that aren't overclocked. You would be very disappointed with that one!
Best Regards,
Russ
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6. February 2008 @ 22:11 |
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Russ, while we are on the AMD subject, check this out. The 9600 Black Edition can't beat the Q6600(stock speed) while the AMD is at 2.7 Ghz(max overclock). The Q6600 can manage a 3.6Ghz overclock easily though...
Originally posted by Toms Hardware:
In the end, we can't really recommend AMD's Phenom 9600 Black Edition, since the CPU draws more power than Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 while costing the same, offering less overclocking headroom, and thus providing lower performance overall.
The bottom line is that the Phenom 9600 Black Edition offers bad value for money.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/05/a...ion/page35.html
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6. February 2008 @ 22:45 |
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ok thanks for the feedback guys ;)
Think ill go with the Quad Q6600 & ASUS P5N32-E SLI.
Ill also get the ram & hard drive sammorris suggested.
Then in a month or 2 ill get the psu greensman suggested,
along with everything else i'll need.
Its about time i upgraded to a decent pc :D
@ no mate, they charge something like 17.5% vat.
Think ill get them seperately from scan instead.
Cheers again
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6. February 2008 @ 22:51 |
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What kind of PSU do you have? I wouldn't risk good parts on a not so good PSU.
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7. February 2008 @ 02:13 |
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Originally posted by cincyrob:
but now my CPU is out of stock. which might be a blessing seeing they raised the price $20 from when i first put it on my list. i think microcenter has it still for the $219 instead of $239 at the EGG.
Rob your talking about the E8400 right? should of got it when microcenter had it for 189.00 dollars
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7. February 2008 @ 03:19 |
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@abuzar1
Im not too sure, i'll have to check.
Its either 400w or 450w & think its unbranded.
But ill wait till i get a good PSU before i put it all together.
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7. February 2008 @ 03:52 |
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cincyrob,
Hey man you better get hopping. There's almost no e8400s available anywhere.
http://www.ncixus.com/products/27784/BX80570E8400/Intel/
Best I could come up with searching the net! Intel doesn't seem to be able to make enough as a lot of places say not available from the manufacturer at the present time. I confirmed they have 10 at one location and >10 at another!
Best Regards,
Russ
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7. February 2008 @ 04:37 |
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Heck I might just buy them all up so cincy can't get one. heheehe. :P Nice find Russ. Hope you grab one cincy, they do seem like the popular item at the time. :D
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@ZoSo, I agree. ;D
@Doug, I believe it was the Corsair VX-550. ;)
edit: [OT]Can't frikkin sleep, coughing and spitting since midnight. bout 3:30am now.....ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.[/OT]
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7. February 2008 @ 04:41 |
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The VX-550 is nice, but the HX-520 is better as it is modular.
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7. February 2008 @ 04:52 |
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Originally posted by Pepp77:
The VX-550 is nice, but the HX-520 is better as it is modular.
I'm not sure I'd go that far but it's more convenient for sure. ;) Where's Lp when you need a rib to rub. hehehe. ;)
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7. February 2008 @ 08:35 |
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Just found out about the E8200 - same specs as the E6750 but has 6mb of level 2 Cache instead of 4. If I can find one actually available I might get that instead - its been slightly cheaper on sites that have priced it.
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7. February 2008 @ 08:38 |
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7. February 2008 @ 10:02 |
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Originally posted by Pepp77:
The VX-550 is nice, but the HX-520 is better as it is modular.
I found this thanks to sammy. NICE link sam. ;) link to HX-520 vs. VX550 (conclusion)
You can read the entire test but the conclusion does it justice. ;) Like they said either p/s is good it basically depends on what you want. ;)
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7. February 2008 @ 10:22 |
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Originally posted by dougal79:
ok thanks for the feedback guys ;)
Think ill go with the Quad Q6600 & ASUS P5N32-E SLI.
Ill also get the ram & hard drive sammorris suggested.
Then in a month or 2 ill get the psu greensman suggested,
along with everything else i'll need.
Its about time i upgraded to a decent pc :D
@ no mate, they charge something like 17.5% vat.
Think ill get them seperately from scan instead.
Cheers again
are you planning to go SLI. if not, intel boards, (either the x38 or p35) offer a much better value for more OCablitiy.
you couild go for the p35 P5K Premium Wifi board form ASUS, or the P5E for the x38 chipset.
also wait a bit, as the Q6600 is mroe thana year old tech, and the new yorkfeild quads are coming.
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7. February 2008 @ 10:23 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
I forget who it is on these forums who likes Ultra PSUs, but I thought I might show them this:
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.ht...W50aHVzaWFzdA==
Guess this confirms what I suspected all along...
tbh they said 3/5 ultras they have revied have been award winners.
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7. February 2008 @ 11:11 |
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Speaking of sammyboy!! I found the perfect case for him. lol. I didn't check he UK sites but I'm sure you guys can help him find it!! LINK to case for sammyboy
Been slow today so I thought I'd spice it up. :P
Waiting on some parts to play with. :D HDD enclosure, new gfx card, and a couple of other nick-nacks!! :)
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7. February 2008 @ 11:14 |
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Have decided to get the arctic freezer 7 to go with my build simply because ebay emailed me today saying "you havent shopped with us for a while" (its been less than a month since I bought Halo 3 from there lol) "so have a tenner to spend on anything".
The 7 pro was £18 quid delivered - so cost me only 8 quid after the ebay coupon :)
edit - Nice case apart from the door ;)
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7. February 2008 @ 12:21 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Greg: I doubt it, when you bend S-ATA cables the data can't get along the cable properly and you get errors sometimes, they're just not well-made enough for that job. Some proper cable shielding and it'd be doable, but right now, the reliability of S-ATA cables limits them to being rather loosely flattened against things.
Looks like i may have a good business idea.
How does the best quality sata cables made from the best quality raw materials that utilise 100% customer satisfaction and are bendy, retractable and are available in many different colours/varieties and are so good every manufacture of motherboards(or whatever) will stock them with their product?
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7. February 2008 @ 13:06 |
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@greensman
if sam dont like that one there is this one here to. i think this one will be alot quieter than the other one?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811156187
was over at wally world looking around. they got a 320gb sata 16mb cache for $98 not usre if thats a deal or not. but i can get 10% off
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7. February 2008 @ 13:42 |
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7. February 2008 @ 13:43 |
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Shaffaaf: THey have indeed, however, suspicions in the past showed that some Ultra units are the same as Rosewills. With a company with such ludicrously varying build quality, would you trust them>?
Greensman: Gross man, just gross.
Rob: <frowns> honestly guys, what did I do to deserve this? :)
Pepp: A lot of people here frown on Deskstars, don't know why. I've had great success with the WD5000AAKS (in both 00TM and 65TM variants) so I can heartily recommend them.
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7. February 2008 @ 13:46 |
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sammorris,
Quote:
I forget who it is on these forums who likes Ultra PSUs, but I thought I might show them this:
Nice 400 Watt PS! LOL!! Cheap, but Expensive! ROFL!! Wonder how many months TigerDirect will take to remove the "SLI Ready" in their ads for them? Then again, they'll just blame Ultra, who will then blame Wintech! LOL!!
I have a question for you Sam. When your P5N-E was going bad, what sort of error messages were you getting when it would BSOD? Gina's is getting BSODs with alarming regularity. She says it can sit for days running with no problems, and she'll sit down and go to open a program, and as soon as she clicks the mouse, Instant Blue Screen. No temperature or voltage issues. It will run Orthos for hours with seemingly no problem. No errors with Memtest, and it never fails in the middle of her doing work. Most of her work is Court Testimony Transcriptions, so there's no real load on anything. All the components are good quality. The Error message she gets a lot is IRQ not equal to or less than something. I can't remember exactly what she said, but she looked up the two error messages she gets and they seem to be memory related. She put her old 1GB memory back in it, which she never had any problems with and it does the same thing. Any input you might have, would be appreciated.
Best Regards,
Russ
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7. February 2008 @ 13:48 |
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Thats why I only linked to one as it was a similar price and the one at Wallys wasnt named. The two WD drives are fantastic quality though and well worth the money. Probably best bang for buck at the moment.
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