Case:Aspire X-Plorer-BK Black ATX Midi Tower € 67,45 CPU:Intel E6600 core2 duo 2.40 4Mb 1066 € 322,15 GPU:Sapphire X1900 xt 512 vivo dvi pci-e € 365,05 Ram:G.SKILL F2-6400PHU2-2GBNS DDR2 ( 2x 1024) Heatspreader Firebrick/Red Retail € 193,75 HDD:SEAGATE Barracuda7200.10 320GB HDD 7200rpm SATAII NCQ 16MB cache € 95,50 Cooling: RECOM RC-12025CB ''UV BLOWER''12 € 6,00 (back) RECOM RC-8025BY''YELLOW BLOWER'' € 2,00 x2 (fromt intake) Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound € 4,30 € 4,30 Motherboard:MB ASUS INTEL S775 P5W DH Deluxe ATX € 211,45 Monitor:ACER 19'' AL1916Ws Widescreen LCD € 215,20 PSU:CM iGreen SLI/EPS Active PFC 600W € 114,00 Other: Aerocool Cool-Panel 5,25'' Bay Black € 36,75 Card Reader Sweex 30in1 Intern € 13,75 I just need to know any if you have any suggestions before I order it. Free feel to post :shaggy:
Very nice build. Is your currency worth more, same, or less then US currency? You live in Australia right? You know the newer ATi core is coming out with dx-10, dunno if you were interested in going for that, or sticking with the x1900. It would be a little bit more expensive then the x1900 atm, but I bet it would last quite a bit. Just something to think about.
I don't think he lives in Australia because in Australia they use dollars.. unless he is having them shipped from some other country. BTW, very nice build.
Netherlands, as you can see in my profile... We use Euro's. Currency is: 1.00 EUR Euro = 1.26900 USD (United States Dollars) Also my parents asked, for how long will this go? I mean I dont have to play games at 100% high settings but for how long can I use this pc with the games? I hope it'll last for something like 2 or maybe 3 years...My parents already told me it was way to much money for them, but okay I convinced them :lol:
well look back from 2000 through about now... the proc will likely be sufficient for around 4 years based on the simple fact that core quanity will be focussed on mroeso than clock speed/single core performance(though enhancements might make it signiciant) GFX cards tend to last about half as long as CPUs... you'll likley need more ram around 2 years from now as well... again, there is no such thing as future proof. that x1900XT is nice... it won't last much longer than the beleoved x800GTO on another note, since I assume you plan to OC, check into DDR20800sdRAM, latencies don't affect conroe performance anywhere near as much as bandwidth.
Hmm, I don't really plan OC'ing, but I can get to 3ghz with this ram, and when I OC the ram to 370, it can get to 3.3ghz cpu, I'll be happy with it. I dont want to buy a better hs and I dont want to put more voltage in it then the stock so... Just want to know, will these run at 3-3-3-10 at ddr2 667?, right? Neweggs costumer reviews says that they overclocked it to ddr2 800 at 5-5-5-12. But I wont OC them that much so I think I'm fine with these, and if I'm not, I can always sell them to a friend of mine and then buy myself better ones. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Mushkin/XP2-5300/3
yeah and in 4 years you can easily just update a few parts, and there you go ur back and running and there isnt much point in oc'ing 3gigs of ram, in less you have word,firefox,aim triton,msn,bf2,css or something, you need to look in to OC'ing your proccessor mainly, maybe your gfx card but i would just do the proccessory
I higly doubt that at 3.0-3.4ish you'de need a better HSF... the e6300 gets to around 2.9-3.1Hz on stock voltage. stock HSF should be fine for 3.0-3.3 on the 6600, just see how things work out, you don't have to raise the voltageif you don't feal it is worth it/don't want to(heck I was paranoid ad undervolted my opteron, a 10% clock speed boost isn't worth cutting the chip life by half). and again, timings do not make much of a diference on conroe... go for the DDR2-800 also remember that the timings are in cycles... if you double the clock speed fo the ram, and double the timings, latency would be the same but real world bandwidth would eb higher. also, you'de likely want to look into this one BIOSTAR(about half the cost)planning on OCing insane... though the crossfire board does leave a nice option if the x2k series is CF compatrable with the 1K series(though I wouldnt' be sure and x2k would likely be DX and use a unified shader architecture)
i guess you don't really know how OCing works? You raise the ram frequency and the FSB, and boom, high OC. if you have an XE, you can also raise the multiplier. it doesnt matter how much ram you have, you don't justify how much you oc compared with your capacity (he has 2gb, not 3gb btw). In 4 years he won't be updating his parts, he will be buying a complete new system. Intel blows at making a New Generation processor compatable with an older board.
I beleive he thinks that OCing raises the capacity anyone think I can OC my 6.4GB harddrive to 80GB? or my 700mb CD to 3.4GB? ========= for the record, OCing is running at above the specified stock frequency. it is akey to running a car engine at higher RPM, you can raise the frequency, but you can never add more cylenders(aka instructions/power per clock) if anything you're efficiency per clock goes down(memory wall/no increase in cache size) and for the record, in 4 years it wouldn't be worth upgrading(doesn't mean you can't borrow parts from it, but it would be mroe accurate to call it an entirely new build). My friends 4 year old P4 williamette system is becoming a file server(the guy who bought the system in my sig)
