Upgrading computer

[dtox]

Hi all! I am hoping to upgrade this computer this year and Id like your oppinions on the following items please:

• Enermax Liberty 620W Modular PSU
• OCZ 2GB PC2-8500 Reaper HPC (2x1GB)
• Thermaltake CL-P0333 Blue Orb FX
• Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz (Retail 775)
• BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB PCI-E
• 500Gb HITACHI SATA Hard Drive
• Asus P5K Premium Wi-Fi Intel P35 LGA 775

OR

• Asus Extreme 8800GT 512MB PCI-E

not sure which mobo to get.

With regards to the cpu cooler I was thinking of either the Blue Orb listed above or the ZEROtherm BTF95 Butterfly Fanless CPU Cooler. Has anyone any oppinions on the butterfly and whether it does a good job considering the hardware above. Im rather tempted at the idea of it being fanless.

Your input would be appreciated :)

[maestro59]

why not get a quadcore now. q6600. Its only around 35 quid more than the E6750.?

[Lynx]

Depends what you do with the pc, if gaming an overclocked q6600 will perform better, but at stock speeds, in general applications, the dual core is clocked higher so will appear faster in my opinion..

[coiler]

https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Motherboards/Socket+775+%28Intel%29/Gigabyte+GA-P35-DS4+Socket+775+Motherboard+?productId=27305

is a cracking board.




https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Fans%2C+Heatsinks%2C+Coolers/Socket+775/Nexus+LXM-8200+Intel+775+CPU+Cooler+?productId=29369

Is a good cooler, might be worth checking its fine with a core2 but I can't see why not, just look at it!



and I agree go for a Q6600! a lot of new games and software coming out in 08 will be optimized for 4 cores!


ps.

https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Graphics+Cards/PCI-E/nVIDIA+GeForce+8+Series/nVidia+GeForce+8800GTS+512MB+PCI-E+?productId=29750

The new GTS 512 ^^^^ should be slighter faster than the GT. (and on web special at the mo!)

[dtox]

Thanks for your suggestions everyone.

maestro: I did think about quadcore but its a bit more expensive and Im not rich :(

coiler: thanks for those cool suggestions, Ill add those to my list.

Is there any more items that I can save money on but attain the same performance?

[maestro59]

i kno wat u mean.

I did that wiv my first built a few months ago, i bought a amd dual core coz didnt wna spend an extra 20 or so quid on a core 2 duo, but have regretted it.

If you can scrape another few quid for it, in my opinion it is worth it, if not then the one you've picked will be fine.


also, i dont know the price or even if they sell them on aria, but arctic cooler hsk's are good, and cheap. I think its called the Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 (not quite sure on name).

EDIT : https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Fans%2C+Heatsinks%2C+Coolers/Socket+775/+Arctic+Cooling+Freezer+7+PRO?productId=20729

The amount of good reviews i've heard about this is phenominal.

[dtox]

cool thanks for the input :)

[Hosser]

Depends what you do with the pc, if gaming an overclocked q6600 will perform better, but at stock speeds, in general applications, the dual core is clocked higher so will appear faster in my opinion..

Generally speaking the dual-core will be faster in games too. Only games I really noticed an improvement in are Supreme Commander and Crysis, which are of course optimised for multi-core.

Basically, even new games are still only using 1 or 2 CPU cores...

[maestro59]

Well its only a jump from 2.40 to 2.66ghz on each core, which i wouldnt think is a vast difference really. And you could overclock the quad core by that much and it would still be very stable at such a small overclock.

Then you have the same chip with 2 extra cores, and the l2 latch is bigger too isnt it.

Well im not going to argue with you 'geeks' (no offence) about this, as i know alot less than most of you.

[coiler]

Quad core if the future :)

[nft99]

never mind gettin a E6750 get a E2140/e2160 and overclock it :D

use for few months then get quad core when price gets to around £100 :)