caliAl Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I’ve been toying with the idea of building myself a new PC, but was I was looking on the Overclocker’s website and spotted this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-005-OC - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO 2.40GHz Quad Core CPU Overclocked too a minimum of 3.30GHz and beyond. (8/9 x 400MHz - 1600MHz FSB) - Tuniq Tower 120 Pro Blue LED Intel approved cooler - Arctic Silver 5 Heatsink compound professionally hand installed by our technicians - Abit IP35-Pro Intel P35 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - Award winning Crucial 2GB Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500 CAS5 (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 1000MHz+) (Note when upgrading to 4GB overclock drops to 3.25GHz on CPU) - 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 32MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive - NVIDIA 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) DirectX 10 Graphics Card - Pioneer 215DBK 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OCZ 850W Next Generation Power Supply £880.08 inc VAT Is this good value? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 have you looked at dell XPS systems, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 It is a good spec machine, what monitor are you going to use with it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DamanC Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Good spec, I can do cheaper thou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliAl Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 have you looked at dell XPS systems, Haven’t looked at the Dell XPS systems for a while, but last time I checked they were very expensive. I will have a look at their website again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliAl Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 It is a good spec machine, what monitor are you going to use with it ? I was thinking 20" or 22" widescreen. Would that graphics card handle playing games well on these size monitors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Seems a little pricey but it is a cracking gfx card. Scott =op Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliAl Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 Do you guys think I could build the same spec PC cheaper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I would think so, in fact you could probably make a better one for that dosh. Overclocking is like adding a turbo, there is no replacement for displacement Get a processor with a std clock speed a little closer to what you want to run it at and THEN clock the hell out of it Scott =op Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliAl Posted April 5, 2008 Author Share Posted April 5, 2008 I hear what you're saying. Putting the PC together will not be a problem, it's just finding the time to research and hunt down the best prices for these parts. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 Intel Core2Quad Q9450 - £245 (monster CPU with 12mb Cache) Big Typhoon Cooler £35 Arctic Silver Paste £5 Choice of MBoard around £200 Award winning Crucial 2GB Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500 CAS5 (2x1GB) Dual Channel Kit £45 - 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 32MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive £65 EVGA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCIE Dual DVI Fan £230 Pioneer 215DBK 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) £20 PSU £100 approx Case £50 £1000 The above PC would be an absolute MONSTER and i only checked Dabs for prices so you could probably get the above for around 900. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted April 5, 2008 Share Posted April 5, 2008 I hear what you're saying. Putting the PC together will not be a problem, it's just finding the time to research and hunt down the best prices for these parts. Can anyone point me in the right direction? If you can stretch to 1k here is one already built http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Q9450-Quadcore-14ghz-DDR2-1066mhz-ram-Asus-P5K-E-WIFI_W0QQitemZ120241357447QQihZ002QQcategoryZ179QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem You get to choose your GFX card. Comes with Vista etc. Scott =op Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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