Just bought for EUR1668 - any gud?

white_falcon

Well lads,
I just paid for this PC on hardwareversand.de - thought it was gud myself now - just wanted to see what everyone else thought, if it needs to be upgraded in any places?

Heres the shopping list

http://www3.hardwareversand.de/8V7gYclWm5RVRl/1/profilorderdetail.jsp?profil.hoid=WDWMCRR32LKH3B&lid=2

white_falcon

Sorry, gonna be using it for music production, video editing and games - hence the quad core and 4gigs ram

8T8

Yeah everything seems okay just make sure your all your hardware has 64-bit drivers going with a 64-bit OS especially any specialist hardware in your line of work that you hook up to the PC.

white_falcon

8T8 wrote:

Yeah everything seems okay just make sure your all your hardware has 64-bit drivers going with a 64-bit OS especially any specialist hardware in your line of work that you hook up to the PC.

crap yea, forgot actually
doesnt matter - have xp license key for my laptop so can install that if i have problems

Anti

Looks good to me, but i cant understand why you buy all that ncie hardware and stick it in a god ugly case.

kaisersose77

I hope you paid 239 euros for the q6600 and not 424 euros hardwareversand have it now for. Must be a mistake, im sure it was 239 this morning just like it has being since the price cuts.

Anti

There are two versions. a "effecient" model wich is a animal of a overclocker and uses 95w tdp, and another "normal" version which is not quite as good and uses 115w tdp.

0w and 1w or somehting like that.

kaisersose77

yes but thats replacing the older model so the pricing should be the same, other sites like hoh.de still have it for around 240 so i doubt hardwareversand will have it at that high price for long.

nibble

They're B3 stepping and G0 stepping Anti, and the difference is minimal only the slight TDP change. The whole G0 overclocking madness was mostly hype because of great G0 Engineering Samples sent out, the ES's are cherry picked by Intel so only the best clocking are doing the rounds.

kaisersose77

at the same time theres an awful lots of posts on forums by ppl who have those B3's and are trying there best to prove that G0 is no different so that they dont regret their purchase. So when more ppl have G0's you'll see if there any better.

nibble

kaisersose77 wrote:

at the same time theres an awful lots of posts on forums by ppl who have those B3's and are trying there best to prove that G0 is no different so that they dont regret their purchase. So when more ppl have G0's you'll see if there any better.

True, they should naturally be a bit better as the fab process matures, of course. If you had the choice take the G0 no doubt, but I wouldn't regret getting a B3 either, whatever way you look at it a QC for €240 is an amazing deal.

white_falcon

erm i dont really think its a god ugly case - looks nice actually - and its watercooled...

white_falcon

nibble wrote:

True, they should naturally be a bit better as the fab process matures, of course. If you had the choice take the G0 no doubt, but I wouldn't regret getting a B3 either, whatever way you look at it a QC for €240 is an amazing deal.

lol I have no clue what you two are talkin about lol

i did get that processor for the cheaper price of 239EUR tho

8T8

white_falcon wrote:

lol I have no clue what you two are talkin about lol

i did get that processor for the cheaper price of 239EUR tho

He is referring to the manufacturing process used to create CPU's which are constructed at what are called FAB's.

Steppings are essentially revisions of the CPU that do not warrant a name change they usually are for improving yields which means more CPU's come off wafers so more product to sell also they can sometimes be much better at overclocking than their predecessors.

However finding CPU's with the steppings clearly marked out isn't always so easy

Anti

white_falcon wrote:

erm i dont really think its a god ugly case - looks nice actually - and its watercooled...

horses for courses i suppose. Plus inbuild watercooling is 90% of the time worse then a good hsf.

L31mr0d

why not get 2x2GB sticks of RAM? Would of given you the option of upgrading to 8GB's when DDR2 is worth dirt a few months from now when DDR3 is more mainstream.

Also whats the deal with the gigabit adapter? I personally would of just pushed for the full 680i with the 2 onboard gigbit nics.

white_falcon

L31mr0d wrote:

why not get 2x2GB sticks of RAM? Would of given you the option of upgrading to 8GB's when DDR2 is worth dirt a few months from now when DDR3 is more mainstream.

Also whats the deal with the gigabit adapter? I personally would of just pushed for the full 680i with the 2 onboard gigbit nics.

erm i did chose 2x2gb sticks or ram - 2 mushkin 2 gig sticks
i just thought the gigabit adapter was an ethernet port. shows how much i know about computers lol