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I have found out that my job is probably safe for another year, so Im going to up grade!
Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) Heatsink
£30.99 (£36.41)Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £84.99 (£99.86
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) – Retail
£151.99 (£178.59)Samsung SpinPoint T HD321KJ 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache – OEM £44.99 (£52.86)
Crucial Ballistix 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA1065)
£199.98 (£234.98)Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 “LGA775 Conroe” 2.67GHz (1066FSB) – Retail
£175.99 (£206.79)Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Soundcard – OEM
£21.99 (£25.84)Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99 (£88.11)
Sub Total : £785.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £9.95
Vat : £139.28
Total : £935.14Ideas ? ie make it silent or better or cheaper or both 😆
yes I know there is no case(get local) or optical drives(got)First thing I would do is change the Stock processor fan for something else, e.g Zalman reason why I say this is, is that I have pretty much the same system as your building and the Stock fan on my Duo 2 is absolutley pathetic. If you want to do even slight OC’ing you will start to get errors from the CPU. Also I’ve found it’s just best with the stock fan to run it at full whack otherwise BF2142 locks up..
11thsignal
Agree with Signal – I’ve a Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro with my conroe chip and its barely breaks 30 deg C even under heavy gaming load. Quiet too.
I would change the sound card. This is very naughty of creative – this card DOES NOT have the X-Fi processor chip on it depsite its name and is in effect a rebranded Audigy 2. You will not be able to select X-Fi sound in BF or any other game and will be denied the improvements that come with X-Fi.
At the very least you need to get the XtremeGamer to get X-Fi, and if the budget can stretch to it one of the cards with XRAM for maximum performance.
See below:
i would stay clear of the crucial balixtrix ram – i have sent my 4 gig back to crucial 4!! times now!
I got screwed on that x-fi audio thing snell…. heed wipers wise words (wish he had told me when I posted the specs of my machine 🙂 the git )
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I got screwed on that x-fi audio thing snell…. heed wipers wise words (wish he had told me when I posted the specs of my machine 🙂 the git )
Didn’t know then unfortunately m8. Only found out recently when i was browsing the Creative forums trying to solve a problem I had with my own X-Fi card.
Wippy the Wise speaks errgh… Wisely 😉
http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Cooler/Retail/cl-p0257/cl-p0257.asp
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OCZ 4GB (4 x 1GB) PC2-8500 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) £104.99 (£123.36)
£209.98 (£246.72)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard – OEM Creative
£39.99 (£46.99)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
£15.99 (£18.79)
Coolermaster IGreen 600W PSU – 85% Efficiency 8pin ATX12V v2.2 120mm Fan
£53.44 (£62.80)OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) – Retail £151.99 (£178.59)
Samsung SpinPoint T HD321KJ 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache – OEM £44.99 (£52.86)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 “LGA775 Conroe” 2.67GHz (1066FSB) – Retail £175.99 (£206.79)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99 (£88.11)total £911
I have the same MB (was recommended by n0m), good for OC’ing but no firewire.
Also got Arctic CF Pro 7, doesnt run quite as cool as Wipers (30 idle, bout 39-40 load) also it only cost just under £12 from Aria!… oh yeah its real quiet too!there is an interesting article here on the real world difference in mem speeds vs settings
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/03/31/tight_timings_vs_high_clock_frequencies_uk/page10.html
may be worth a look
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