Help With C2D Build

[nmX.Memnoch]

If you keep waiting for price drops you'll wait indefinitely. There's always either another price drop or the "next best thing" right around the corner.

The total price for the bundle and PSU would be £413.55. I don't know what your shipping charges are like but I would think you'd still be within your £500 budget.

[3aces]

If you keep waiting for price drops you'll wait indefinitely. There's always either another price drop or the "next best thing" right around the corner.

That is indeed true, but the 22nd claims to be the day were all been waiting for.....i will atleast wait for this date before buying anything...i could save up £50, which in thoery means DRINKS ON ME lool

The total price for the bundle and PSU would be £413.55. I don't know what your shipping charges are like but I would think you'd still be within your £500 budget.

yeah that is indeed certain i will be in my £500 budget, but ill wait for the price drop see if i can sqeeze a 2.4ghz cpu out of it

[nmX.Memnoch]

yeah that is indeed certain i will be in my £500 budget, but ill wait for the price drop see if i can sqeeze a 2.4ghz cpu out of it

You probably already could...it's only about £24 more. But yeah...the 22nd is only a few days away. It wouldn't ship over the weekend anyway so you'd still end up waiting a few more days before it arrived.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....&subcat=791

[3aces]

yeah that is indeed certain i will be in my £500 budget, but ill wait for the price drop see if i can sqeeze a 2.4ghz cpu out of it

You probably already could...it's only about £24 more. But yeah...the 22nd is only a few days away. It wouldn't ship over the weekend anyway so you'd still end up waiting a few more days before it arrived.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct....&subcat=791

yeah i was jsut looking at that, but i read somewere that the RAM bundleded isnt good at overclocking unless you up the voltage, but i want to aviod that.

ill see if i can find it and post it here

[ripken204]

well 800mhz 4-4-4-12 seems pretty good to me.

[3aces]

well 800mhz 4-4-4-12 seems pretty good to me.

Well i guess its a GO GO

im just gonna wait for this price drop then ill jump in a get wet

[nmX.Memnoch]

Yeah, the 2.4GHz deal is better in two ways:

1. It has CAS4 memory

2. The CPU has 4MB cache instead of 2MB cache

That's definitely the deal I'd go with.

[3aces]

Yeah, the 2.4GHz deal is better in two ways:

1. It has CAS4 memory

2. The CPU has 4MB cache instead of 2MB cache

That's definitely the deal I'd go with.

yeah thats what i decided, im also looking into increasing my budget a little bit, i booked in overtime at work lol

but hopefully should be able to get it up by about £80-£100

But another question i wanted to ask, i want to obvisouly overclock this cpu, is it ok to go fanless cpu cooling while doing this, and if i can, is there any reccomendations of any particular brand of heatsink to use???

[jcarle]

ThermalRight Ultra 120 Extreme, there is no cooler on the market that can outperform this one. None.

[3aces]

ThermalRight Ultra 120 Extreme, there is no cooler on the market that can outperform this one. None.

Well l will look into that one. Seems very interesting so far. Obviously I will be using arctic silver 5! unless its not the best compound anymore!!!!!!!!!

[jcarle]

Well l will look into that one. Seems very interesting so far. Obviously I will be using arctic silver 5! unless its not the best compound anymore!!!!!!!!!

I personally always use Arctic Silver 5, thought there's been controversy as to whether or not it actually makes a real difference.

[ripken204]

AS5 is not the best TIM out there, but its is at least one of the best and very safe. liquid metal TIMs are just too dangerous/corrosive.

[3aces]

AS5 is not the best TIM out there, but its is at least one of the best and very safe. liquid metal TIMs are just too dangerous/corrosive.

Well in that case ill get some AS5