Hello! Check out my Rig and upcoming upgrades here...

[Bhavv]

Hi all, I'm new here. I signed up to see if I could get free scan delivery, but needed 25 posts first so just ordered my upgrades without posting

Anyway my current system is:

AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @ 2600 Mhz
Asus A8R32-MVP deluxe
2 gig G skill DDR 500 Mhz @ 2.5-2-3-5
Ati X1900 XTX
Creative X-fi Elite Pro
Gigaworks THK 7.1 speakers
Maxtor 300 gig sata 1 8 Mb cashe HD
Samsung Spinpoint 500 gig 16 meg cashe HD
Aerocool Aeroengine II case
Tagan 580 watt modular PSU.

And I ordered the following components for my upgrade:

Intel C2D 8400
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MSI P35 NEO2-FR
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Asus Silent Knight II
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2x G.Skill 2GB DDR2
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HK PC2-6400C4 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK)

The ram in particular made my jaw hit the floor with its price and reading this review:

VR-Zone : Technology Beats - GSkill F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK Review

It does up to 1020 Mhz @ 4-4-3-5, 1140 Mhz @ 5-5-5-15 and 1200 Mhz @ 5-6-6-18, all for just £43 per pair!

I definatlely cant wait to get OC'ing with this. Also I'll be upgrading my GFX card to one of these when it gets released and drops in price to £250:

Powercolor cuts the Radeon HD 3870X2 size

My current order cost me £340 including some Akasa Tim fluid to clean my current parts, and a £10 fee from scan to update the motherboards bios prior to shipping so the E8400 will work. I'm also Aiming to Ebay my 4400+, ram, mobo, and a sony ericsson k800i for £50-75 each. if I get my £75 target this upgrade will have been almost free XD. I also have a Failing / Broken Asus A8N-SLI motherboard to sell with all the cables for parts, hopefully I can get £15-25 for this as well.

Also, heres some pics of my rig for you to enjoy:







Cant wait to get my G.skill glow in the dark stickers with my ram and my Asus silent knight 2 for a CPU light XD. Ram will arrive later today, and the rest when the E8400 comes in stock.

Well thats a long first post, hopefully there isnt too many typos. Hi again !!!!!!

P.S. I also have a technical beta key for Age of Conan and the download should be available within the next few days, so that will give me something to test my rig on

Edit - done my 5 costuctive posts yay! Another 20 to go for free delivery, and... erm, another year to wait for my next upgrade lol.

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Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK

!!! Want want want XD

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Welcome and happy upgrading & overclocking!

[Bhavv]

Got my upgrades done

I have my E8400 running 100% stable at 3825 Mhz @ 1.3v with my ram at 1020 Mhz @ 4-4-3-9. The ram needs to be at 1020 for its maximum efficiency as this is the highest speed it will work at its low 4-4-3-5 latencies. Going up to 1066 requires loosening the latencies too much and bandwidth suffers:

1020 Mhz @ 4-4-3-9 - 7.67 Gb/s
1066 Mhz @ 5-5-5-15 - 6.5 Gb/s
1120 Mhz @ 5-5-5-15 - 6.9 Gb/s

My Motherboards stock bios doesnt support 4 gig of ram or a Tras lower then 9, so I'm stuck with using 2 gigs for now and a Tras of 9 instead of 5

Also updating my bios is going to be a pain. The MSI updater isnt vista compatible, and when I boot into XP my USB slots dont work without the chipset drivers and I completely cannot find one of my ancient PS2 mice.

Hmmm, I wonder if I can install the motherboard drivers using just a PS2 keyboard and pressing tab and enter lol. What a pain thats going to be.

[Bhavv]

YAYS!!!! I put my old parts up on ebay today and two of them already sold!

I got £85 for my 4400+, and £75 for my A8R32-MVP deluxe!

Considering that I paid £129 for the E8400 and £66 for the MSI P35 Neo, thats pretty decent!

Now I still have my Uber rare G. Skill DDR1 ram up for £80. The stuff that does 400 Mhz @ 2-3-2-5, 500 Mhz @ 2.5-3-2-5, and 550 Mhz @ 3-3-2-8!

(And my new ram cost me £42 per pair lol)

I'm a cheeky sod selling for so high