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« on: March 22, 2008, 05:04:26 PM »
After 2-3 years, my laptops finally started getting clogged up with stuff so I felt it was time to upgrade. I told my mate I was looking into getting something new and he wrote me up this spec:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Leadtek 8800GT 512MB
2GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer RAM
Abit IP35 Pro motherboard
OCZ 600W Stealstream PSU
Antec Ultimate Gamer 900 case
Seagate Barracuda 250GB hdd

He built it for me last night, its pretty much a beast :D Dont have wireless internet or a good monitor for it yet (just using an LCD tv connected via VGA atm) but will sort that out soon. Looks great



For anyone who's interested heres the insides. Probably looks a bit messy but its the best we could get it.



Vista 32bit Ultimate is really nice, dont get why everyones complaining about it - it just needs a good machine to run nicely from what I can tell. Looks like I'll be getting Crysis soon :D

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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2008, 05:18:54 PM »
I have no idea what any of that technical stuff means but it looks damn cool!
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2008, 05:25:00 PM »
How much was it? (I seem to ask that a lot lately on threads, lol)

Mine looks similar and I REALLY need to update. I'm starting to lag behind on the computer games!

Crysis? Surely you should know the best computer to play Crysis doesn't even exist! It's a s00per-d00per comp00ter from the f00ture.
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2008, 05:30:02 PM »
I think its cost me about £630 ish so far. 3 of the fairly expensive items (motherboard, processor and ram) were on sale on Overclockers so I got a fairly good price on those :)

This definitely makes a nice change from a Dell Inspiron laptop - XP home with 1gb ram, 1.73ghz pentium m processor, 128mb graphics card and 60gb hdd :lol:

Btw, are USB wireless adaptors like this any good or should I really get a wireless PCI card? Also, know if this monitor would be any good? I'm using a cheap Bush LCD hdtv with a VGA input at the minute and even that isnt too bad so I guess this would be allright.

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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2008, 05:31:56 PM »
If i where you, i'd add a different fan to that videocard if you plan on playing Crysis, because it'll run pretty hot, i've had one customer who fried his vidcard because he had the stock fan, which could not properly cool the card.
Other than that, it looks like a pretty nice, up to spec system :drink:  

As for why people don't like Vista, there's a myriad of reasons why, some don't like the new layout of the GUI, some hate the fact they need a super powerful pc to run the equivalent of XP Pro with all the bells and whistles, some don't like the amount of bloatware that comes with it, the UAC is often a feature my customers give for wanting me to remove Vista and install XP instead, and there have been, and still are a lot of concerns about privacy, control over the system (DRM, anyone?), and Vista phoning home for dubious reasons.
And of course, the ridiculous price of this bad re-imagening of Windows XP (because it's not been built from the ground up as microsoft claims, it has bugs that where inherent in XP and NT that could not have come from original code work), is one reason most folks i build systems for opt for XP.

Can't say i blame them  :lol:
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2008, 05:36:08 PM »
i love your pc other than 2 things.

INTEL & that case, my mate has the same setup apart from he has a core 2 duo e6600 thats overclocked.

I know intel are doing better atm but im just a purist and im loyal to brands so its always gonna be amd for me :D

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« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2008, 06:18:04 PM »
From what I've read, AMD are so far behind its not even worth it. I dont think the case looks amazing compared to some others but its great at cooling from what I can tell.

I might get a better fan for the graphics card then, or just run the graphics a bit lower? I dont usually notice too much difference when I tone down the graphics quality anyway.


The UAC on vista is pretty annoying, I use Tweak UAC which just makes it run in "silent mode" - you still get all the security benefits etc but it doesnt come up with "Are you sure you want to do this.." all the time.

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« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2008, 06:18:17 PM »
Quote from: Transcend
i love your pc other than 2 things.

INTEL & that case, my mate has the same setup apart from he has a core 2 duo e6600 thats overclocked.

I know intel are doing better atm but im just a purist and im loyal to brands so its always gonna be amd for me :D


Tony, its time to leave our old friend AMD behind, i know it's hard, but you can't keep living in the past like this! intel have us beat! by lightyears!

The only problem i forsee is that my brother has the near exact same set up, with a 600watt case-stock PSU and it crashes now and again because it actually needs more power, though an OCZ may give better performance, i would sure hope so anyway.
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« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2008, 06:32:39 PM »
Personally I much prefer the P182 compared to the 900, but that's because I don't like loads of LEDs and stuff.

Other than that its a pretty nice setup - My only qualm is the WD hard drives, the Samsung Spinpoints are about the same price and are sooo much better.

And those OCZ Stealxstreams are great aren't they? Dirt cheap, very quiet, and run nice and stable - Such a bargain.
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« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2008, 06:33:01 PM »
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i love your pc other than 2 things.

INTEL & that case, my mate has the same setup apart from he has a core 2 duo e6600 thats overclocked.

I know intel are doing better atm but im just a purist and im loyal to brands so its always gonna be amd for me :D


Tony, its time to leave our old friend AMD behind, i know it's hard, but you can't keep living in the past like this! intel have us beat! by lightyears!

The only problem i forsee is that my brother has the near exact same set up, with a 600watt case-stock PSU and it crashes now and again because it actually needs more power, though an OCZ may give better performance, i would sure hope so anyway.


yeah but i can get amds so cheap :P

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« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2008, 06:34:54 PM »
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i love your pc other than 2 things.

INTEL & that case, my mate has the same setup apart from he has a core 2 duo e6600 thats overclocked.

I know intel are doing better atm but im just a purist and im loyal to brands so its always gonna be amd for me :D


Tony, its time to leave our old friend AMD behind, i know it's hard, but you can't keep living in the past like this! intel have us beat! by lightyears!

The only problem i forsee is that my brother has the near exact same set up, with a 600watt case-stock PSU and it crashes now and again because it actually needs more power, though an OCZ may give better performance, i would sure hope so anyway.


Very few PCs need more than 600 watts of power to be frank. Unless you're running SLI setups or such you wouldn't need more than 500w as far as my experience tells me.
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« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2008, 06:36:35 PM »
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I think its cost me about £630 ish so far. 3 of the fairly expensive items (motherboard, processor and ram) were on sale on Overclockers so I got a fairly good price on those :)

This definitely makes a nice change from a Dell Inspiron laptop - XP home with 1gb ram, 1.73ghz pentium m processor, 128mb graphics card and 60gb hdd :lol:

Btw, are USB wireless adaptors like this any good or should I really get a wireless PCI card? Also, know if this monitor would be any good? I'm using a cheap Bush LCD hdtv with a VGA input at the minute and even that isnt too bad so I guess this would be allright.


USB adaptors aren't as good as PCI ones - Period. Get a PCI one unless you're using a laptop, or for some freak reason your Mobo doesn't have any PCI slots.

Make sure you get a good cooler on that Q6600, even if its just an AC Freezer or something - And then show us some clocks. No point in buying a Q6600 and not overclocking.
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« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2008, 06:43:24 PM »
when i bought my pc a tech advised me to not hook up the front audio ports, he says using those is bad for your MB or something,
just thought I'd throw that out there. :)

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« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2008, 06:44:30 PM »
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Personally I much prefer the P182 compared to the 900, but that's because I don't like loads of LEDs and stuff.

Other than that its a pretty nice setup - My only qualm is the WD hard drives, the Samsung Spinpoints are about the same price and are sooo much better.

And those OCZ Stealxstreams are great aren't they? Dirt cheap, very quiet, and run nice and stable - Such a bargain.


This is my first good pc so I dont have anything to compare the OCZ to, but it seems really nice. The machine runs really quiet, I love it.

As for the network adapter, do you reckon something like this cheap Belkin will work fine or should I spend a bit extra on something like this (which seems to have better vista support and good range if the reviews are anything to go by)?

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« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2008, 08:34:14 PM »
Out of those 2, i'd get the netgear.
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