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    Thumbs up It's time... !!!!

    Alrite guys, blurbed a while back about building a new system and got some good feedback;

    http://forums.hexus.net/chassis-syst...-down-0-a.html

    My budget's flexible cause I think building it well once and not having to go near it again for ages is the best way. Anyway, so far i'm gonna go for;

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    Huge Space
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    Tekheads.co.uk £82.19
    Overclock.co.uk £84.95
    Scan.co.uk £85.76
    Enuf power & modular
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    CPU: Intel Q6600 + Go Stepping
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    zaafs.com £110.44
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    Plenty of bang for buk
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    Seems good
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    I have hard drives although i'm thinking of getting a WD Raptor X for boot
    lambda-tek.com £141.78
    advancetek.co.uk £140.99
    amakia.com £131.59
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    I also have an X-fi Fatal1ty Pro Sound card.

    So really all i'm stuck on is the board and graphics. Is getting a board with an nvidia chipset and then an nvidia GPU the best or is the Foxconn Blackops really good and are ATI cards the dogs danglys now?

    If you guys could give me some stats or feature recommendations on these two parts it'd be great.

    Oh, and lookng at xilence icebox HDD heatsinks for cooling and the Corsair Memory DOMINATOR AIRFLOW FAN, not too sure about water cooling, makes me a bit nervous at the thought of liquid inside the comp. Have a IFX-14 for the CPU so if there's anything you guys would recommend fire away.

    And, when i get it built i'll post some pics to show you all your handy work.

    Cheers guys for humouring my repetitive questions!


    p.s
    mobo i like was the asus striker II extreme 790i.
    is it worth the £240 price?
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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    DDR3 is a waste of money, get DDR2.

    Get all your parts from one supplier - if they come from all over the place, and you have a problem, you'll be in for a nightmare time.

    What is the system going to be used for? You might be better off with a faster C2D than a slower C2Q.

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    Bear in mind as well once you post a bit more you can qualify for scan free shipping. Personally i'd buy a motherboard of half the price of what you have opted for. Save your money for a better quad core cpu, ddr3 would be wasted coupled with a q6600. Get yourself 8 gigs of DDR 2 and think about vista 64 to go with.

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    Yep no need for DDR3 with a Q6600 you just won't get any gain even when overclocking.

    If you go with DDR2 you have a far wider range of motherboards at much more reasonable prices. P45, X38, X48 boards.

    I wouldn't bother with an nvidia board, you only set yourself up for dissapointment tbh and unless you really want SLi there is no gain to be made.. trust me I have one lol

    Try your RAM without that noisey cooler first, they are quite annoying. You can always do a ghetto mod to hover an 80 - 120mm fan above them, but the antec 1200 has so much air flow I doubt it will be required.

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    why is ddr3 rubbish? is the higher htz not better?

    not overly bothered about spending big bucks on the board, just want good hardware.

    will get my stuff from one or two suppliers to save on postage. what was that about scan postage? do i have to post replies on pages to qualify?

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    you'll hardly notice the benefit, the difference is one second in six or something for access times, and for more than triple the price you should wait til its come down and is the standard. The ASUS Rampage Formula x48 board are beasts, and suppot full crossfire on the new ATi boards, and are a great deal better in build quality to the nVidia chipset boards. Unless your stuck with SLI, then you obviously have no choice.

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    Also, the Q6600 is the same from SCAN in todays only offers on a weekend where you even get a free skype speakerphone UFO with it At twenty posts too you'll qualify for free postage so you can take advantage of even more offers from them knocking off P&P
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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    you need 20 (maybe 25) posts to get free scan delivery.

    I gaurantee spending £80 - £100 gets you the same quality motherboard as £150 - £200.

    It's just the feautures you lose (decide whether you need).

    Something like a Asus P5Q-E (P45) will handle pretty much any overclocking on air that you could do to a Q6600. Since at the motherboards native 1600MHz FSB the Q6600 will be running 3.6GHz (all it will reasonably do) you barely need an overclocking board at all lol

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    ok, looked at the Rampage.

    digitalkind.co.uk £254.61
    hp-sales.co.uk £241.47
    digital-fusion.co.uk £244.17
    lambda-tek.com £259.71

    to be honest i'm not worried about nvidia vs ati or sli and crossfire.

    just want a good board, good ram, good cpu.

    do high def video editing and getting into playing games again so need a system I can push.

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    Weird i've just mention to someone else about going for the blackops motherboard and if i could turn the clocks back 5 months to when i built my system i would have jumped at the chance and bought the sucker!

    That said the above post are wise words and worth thinking about. Equally its your system build and your cash Blackops all day for me a motherboard isn't just for christmas its for life.

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by MarkTheNoob View Post
    to be honest i'm not worried about nvidia vs ati or sli and crossfire.
    You are no n00b saying that! Wise words my friend.

    If you consider whacking it down to DDR2, theres the formula are about £80 cheaper, so then you'll be saving in total probably £200 if you wanted to. But aye, the Rampage boards are all top-of-the-line, the foxconn blackopps is an older board, but essentially similar enough for most people.

    Also, if its mainly or just video editting, AMD processors are generally better (although thats pretty much all they are better for these days )
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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    Asus P5Q-E
    scan.co.uk £96.69

    if we're taking statistics what can a blackops mobo offer that justifies jumping from £100 to £250?

    and as for the GPU, are the ATI cards better?

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    Potentially it can overclock higher, but as I said already you don't need it to.

    It will do full bandwith dual GPU's, the P45 can only to PCIe 8x.

    No idea what else it can do.. not much I'm thinking.

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    the gpu depends on the res you'll be using... 4850 or 4870 r the best bang for buck imo for 22 inch monitors and probably the 4870 for a 24 incher... as for a motherboard i would say the asus p5q or even the older p5k as its still a great board... I would stay well clear of nvidia chipsets (my striker sucks for what i paid for it )

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    I actually have the P5K board atm. had a p5n32 but it kraped it's pants with me when the northbridge turned itself into a radiator.

    what to do?
    tweak what i have or build a monster!

    could always cut corners and go get a lapdance

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    Re: It's time... !!!!

    ok guys, i'm sold on the 4870 GPU.

    had a quick look at it in dabs and the reviews from guys who upgraded from the like
    of the 8800gts 640mb and said there is a marked difference in the likes of crysis.

    so, new mobo or not new mobo?!

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