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grantmeaname wrote:
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I would get a 640 GB Caviar Black, which TR says isn't much slower than a Velociraptor.

thanks for the suggestion I'll check them out

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I think I'm guna go with the Xigmatek HDT-S1283, it looks good and the led fan will go with my rams leds which is good

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I'm guna go with the e5200. What do you guys think about this cooler?

http://www.xigmatek.com/product/liquid-aios80dp.php#1

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Imperor wrote:
And cache size stoped being important when?

But will 1meg make a noticeable difference?

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What about stepping up to a e7400 would that improve things? I like the e5200 cause of its high multiplier gives a wider range to work with, with finding the highest fsb.

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I could just about but from my understanding I thought the e5200 would get a better overclock with my ram frequency.

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I'm looking to build a new gaming rig on the cheep, budget £300-£350, but with the ability to expand later. Heres what I'm thinking: Antec 300 Intel e5200 (plan to overclock to about 3.3ghz) DFI Lanparty DK P45-T2RS Artic Cooler Freezer Pro 7 Samsung 320 gig hard drive Samsung DVD RW drive That litt...

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If your considering overclocking, have you considered an after market cpu cooler rather then a standard Intel one. With an after market cool you should hit somewhere between 3.4-3.6 without over volting the cpu. You could push to 3.8-4 if you over volt your cpu as well, just something you might want...

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I'm looking for the fastest hard drive set up which offers good value for money for a gaming system (I don't want to use SSD as it is two expensive and it would be going on to an intel chipset and hear their are performance issues using Intel chipset with SSD). The drives would only be used to load ...

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Only when their was alot going on, ie 4 or more enemys and vehicles, droping it down to 4aa and i never notice any lag in game.

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I didn't really see to much change Full Screen: 17/07/2008 23:02:35 - Vista 64 Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, Demo-benchmark_gpu DX10 1280x1024, AA=2x, Vsync=Disabled, 32 bit test, FullScreen Demo Loops=3, Time Of Day= 9 Global Game Quality: VeryHigh ================================================...

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Using DX 9 and DX 10? Running in 32bit or 64bit mode?

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Just ran a crysis benchmark using the crysis benchmark tool and the reasults impressed me greatly so I thought I would post them here for anybody who's not sure whether to get one, all I can say is it was the best £200 quid I've spent. 17/07/2008 22:15:18 - Vista 64 Beginning Run #1 on Map-island, D...

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If you press right click Customize... and move the DX9 opition to the top the game will always launch in DX9 mode when you double click, that way you only have too use right click once.

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What about going a full ATX case and then getting a X38 mobo:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143916

Thats what I use in my ATX system, its very good with amazing build quality.

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Think dam should of asked the clever guys and girls over a tech report first before pressing that order button

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I also do lots of photo and graphics work and would seriously recommend 8 gigs of ram, might seam like overkill but when your working on a hi def file with loads of layers and effects the 8 gigs of ram really kick in and stop your performance dropping.

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I would recommend getting a quad, even seriouslly over clocked dual core systems that I have used seem slower then the tiny overclock I have on my quad, when I'm running my virtual machines on my quad I forget that their virtural machines, its deffently worth the money. A 4870 would be overkill at y...

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What res is your screen? If its 1680x1050 or higher I would recommend an upgrade to a 4870 if your guna be gaming on your system alot.

Everything else is cool, but deffently get a new cooler for your cpu, also look at the samsung 750gig drive, mines very good.

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I decided to go with a HIS 4870 and a Crosair TX 650W, just hope they fit in my case, will let you know how they are on monday when they get here.

thanks for the advice

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Take a look yourself:

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14967

In every test it beats a 8800GTX, and if you want it up their battling the likes of the new 280 you should stick it in cross fire and watch them fly.

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Ok, I'll wait and take a look at 4870. Is their anything else you guys can recommend me as well as the 4870?

Thanks for your help

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I didn't work out how to do this it was done by someone else on another froum. He got his up too 3.7ghz using some voltage mods. However then you are relient on whether you have that same mother board to carry on following his guide. This is what he did: Q6600 / 2.4 GHz on locked down Intel G33 moth...

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Just cause I had a locked down Dell mobo, I didn't want this to stop me from being able to get my Q6600 up to 3ghz. After doing some digging on the internet I found the tape mod for the Q6600. Basically you cover one of the pins on chip with electical tape, and then hey presto, your running at 333mh...

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Looking to upgrade my graphics card and was just woundering what you guys thought would be the best upgrade. My budget is £500 including PSU seen I think I'm guna need to upgrade seen it is only 375 watts. Just cause the budget is 500 doesn't mean I have to use it all. Basically I need a graphics ca...

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dkrum wrote:
Do you ever run out of room on your 500 gigger? Is the 500GB volume compressed?

I haven't yet filled over 500gigs yet so it hasn't been a problem so far.

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Spend an extra $10 and get this samsung: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001095 It will be so much better then the other too. Whats the point in having a good graphics card if you don't have a good screen to enjoy it on. Your getting your priorities wrong screen 1st, graphic...

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Why do you say RAID0-ing the OS partion is not such as good idea? Enlighten me.

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tsoulier wrote:
I would think the 9850 should be re-named cause its not near Intels QX 9650

Lol thats a good point, hadn't thought of that.

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I don't use any image software. Never found any that I liked. My 800gig partion I back up to my external 500 gig hard drive, I'm currently working seeing whether i can get a xcopy batch file to do this for me, something I could run every night as a last thing with a shut down PC command at the end. ...

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