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« on: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 12:39:30 »

Couple of questions as i'm upgrading some components:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
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Samsung SpinPoint F1 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache

Thermaltake ToughPower 750W Power Supply
or can someone recomend something better?

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3?
i've only chosen this cos i can't get the XFX version for £199 on overclockers as it's sold out.

thoughts?
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 12:50:36 »

Samsung has bigger cache, get that one.

Graphics will be plenty good enough.
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 12:55:42 »

hopefully the graphics cards will drop in price next week as Nvidias new cards are out next week
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 13:36:06 »

The Samsung Spinpoint 750 is the best drive available at the moment mate.

Its almost the speed of the Raptor...which for speed is still the driver to beat but they are only available in 150mb and 300mb and at 10,000rpm are very noisy and the other minus point.....£120 for the smaller and £210 for the bigger drive you dont get much storage space for your pennies.

I very much recommend the Spinpoints I use them all the time, 250, 500, 750 and 1TB are all good drives but the 750 is the bogs dollocks  Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 13:39:26 »

PS....

Nvidia 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130449

£174.99inc VAT and P&P at Ebuyer with 70+ in stock right now.....a damn good card...not quite a 9800GX2 but a good medium spec card.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 14:02:46 »

never noticed that one whilst on there earlier.
will save me £50 thats for sure  Cool
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 16:14:50 »

get an Enermax PSU
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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 16:18:51 »

If you're going to spend the money of an Enermax then the Be Quiet! dark power pro is a better PSU. Would question why you need to spend so much though.
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 18:48:57 »

Enermax are good but hugely overpriced unless you desperatly need perfect reliabilty in stable voltages..which any normal home user wouldnt ever need, I would never bother spending more than £50-£60 on a PSU.

Would rather save the extra £100 and spend it on watercooling.....I have my watercooling kit on order now, cant wait to overclock my PC with it.
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 20:20:19 »

How much has that set you back edmunds?

What are you going to cool with it?
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« Reply #10 on: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 09:33:39 »

I am starting with just the Chip cooler and adding the vga blocks when money allows, the whole set up with a silent fan installed in the box is only £69.99 but the vga blocks are a cool £39 each for the 2 I need so I am holding back on that just yet.
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« Reply #11 on: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 09:38:02 »

£70 is pretty cheap. What one is that?

I want to dabble into water cooling after reading how it's done. I'd have to get a new case or mod one though, as I'd quite like it kept all in the one box.
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« Reply #12 on: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 09:41:24 »

I am trying out the Alphacool system, which is sealed but easily upgradable to add GPU coolers in it, £69 from the coolingshop inc vat and postage.

Scan.co.uk sell similar products, they arent great cooling but I too want to dabble without spending vast amounts of money.

This one there is no modding of the case at all as its kept "in house" inside the case, some of them you have to make holes in the case and have the cooler outside the case.
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« Reply #13 on: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 09:44:13 »

I was tempted by this one as well at a few quid more....the thermal take bigwater

http://www.thecoolingshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/2157

From the reviews I have read I should be able to easily break the 4ghz overclock on my E6750 which is running at 3.6ghz with Arctic Pro 7 cooling already.
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« Reply #14 on: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 09:50:45 »

Yeah I was looking at some of the swiftech ones as they have good reviews. My case at the moment would need modding to fit the radiator properly and allow it to cool.

One consideration I'd have is the size of the pump for what I needed to cool. I'm sure I'd start off with just the cpu, but obviously VGA and chipset can be watercooled as well.
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