AMD X2 dual bladi blah V Conroe

[wilto]

Basically I'm building a new system budget of £550.

I have about £140 to spend on a processor...

I mostly do gaming and a bit of work ;)

Will it be conroe will it be amd x2 will it be a single processor?

I have been offered an engineering sample of e6400 for £125.

Also best GFX card for £110?Do i go for something like 7600GT?

Thanks for your help!

[redswipe]

Is this "engineering sample" used? If it is then its a bit expensive because you can buy a brand new OEM E6400 for about £155.

This should be a nice little system. If you add the CPU for £125 it will be a bit over your budget at £600 so you may want to get cheaper RAM or a cheaper graphics card.

Antec SLK1650B + 350watt PSU - £45
Gigabyte GA 965P DS3 (Socket 775) Motherboard - £105
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 RAM - £130
Western Digital Caviar Sata Hard Drive 160GB - £45
BFG GeForce 7600 GT 256MB - £125
DVD-RW Drive - £25

[Carbine]

Is this "engineering sample" used? If it is then its a bit expensive because you can buy a brand new OEM E6400 for about £155.

This should be a nice little system. If you add the CPU for £125 it will be a bit over your budget at £600 so you may want to get cheaper RAM or a cheaper graphics card.

Antec SLK1650B + 350watt PSU - £45
Gigabyte GA 965P DS3 (Socket 775) Motherboard - £105
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 RAM - £130
Western Digital Caviar Sata Hard Drive 160GB - £45
BFG GeForce 7600 GT 256MB - £125
DVD-RW Drive - £25


Red think you getting a little mixed up... looking at it, he is getting an ES cheaper than the OEM.... then again i wouldn't mind an ES version of the chip. They most likely overclock more than the proper ones

[Kynoch]

ES CPU's do not have locked multiplyers so they should be better for overclocking.

[redswipe]

Red think you getting a little mixed up... looking at it, he is getting an ES cheaper than the OEM....

Eh? I was pointing out that £125 for what I thought was a second hand CPU is a bit much if you can buy a new one for £155.

From what you say about the ES one though it sounds like the best bet.

[wilto]

Ok lets try something else the guy with the ES is now ignoring me so im just going to stuff that idea.

Basically i've had a rethink and im going to go for a £500 machine + a tft screen for around 100 - 120 so yeah this is what i came up with.

Asus P5V-VM DH Socket 775 PCI-E Integrated Graphics DDR2 Wireless LAN - £58
Intel Conroe e6300 - 2 X 1.83 - £140
Corsair Value Select 1GB 2X512mb 667mhz ddr2 - £65
WD 160GB SATAII - £41
Thermaltake TR2 Value 500W - £42
XFX 7600 GT 590mhz core clock and 1600mhz memory clock - £122
Lite on DVD Drive - £20

Thats what i got so far and that comes to £490 or there abouts.

To me that sounds like a nice lil machine but im concerned about the gfx card.

I've read so much stuff about ATI and Nividia cards around te £120 mark and i have no clue as what to go for 7600GT of some sort seems the best for me.

I will be doing lots of gaming so would a single procesorr like the 3800+ athlon be better than the conroe allowing me therefore to get a cheaper mobo and buy more ram and a better gfx card?

thanks for any help.