IP35 Pro now £68.99 in B grade - bargain!

I'd be quick if you want one though they wont hang around at that price...

There's some decent heatsinks there too - the Tuniq Core Contact Freezer and Arctic Cooling Freezer Extreme are both good value at £26.44, the Tuniq Tower LFB and Thermalright 120 Extreme are under £30. If you need cheap the Akasa AK-965 is excellent for £12, if a little noisy when overclocking. I can give you a Pentium D retail heatsink to go with the cpu, but itll probably add about £6 to the postage given the weight and won't be as good as the Akasa even so... Anyway the offer is there .

BTW I've put you the cpu and hard disk to one side (dunno if you want the hdd or not), sorry i'vw not mailed you but I ended up spending a rare night playing TF last night instead . I'll try and mail you tonight .

dude thats only got 1 pci e slot

is this any good?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showprodu ... =BG-333-AS

im quite close to buying it unless there's a good reason not to.

x3 pci-e 3way sli
x1 pci
good on-board sound card

I gotta say thats quite a good board for its price and is Asus which are usually very good although more complex to set up or some crap Although im sure pilsys is very good for some reason most likely as it will overclock a pentium so much that it grows an extra core or something

No its got 2 pcie slots mate . They run at 8x each when using both, but still its got 2 slots. One blue (primary) and one black. If you look at the photo theres a blue PCIe, black pci then a black second PCIe.

I really couldn;t recommend the Nvidia board if you want any overclocking - mainly because theyre tricky and I don't know enough about them to advise you with your overclock. An Intel board will guarantee you a good clock.

Runs crossfire, doesn't support SLI.

If you want to run 2 Nvidia cards you need either an Nvidia chipset or an i7/x58/DDR3.

To run 2 ATI cards you need an Intel board, no Nvidia board is Crossfire compatible.

To run a single card choose any, but preferably Intel .


P5N-T is a better choice than your original 680 chipset. It is buggy though. if you search around in google for enthusiast forums and peoples experiences overclocking you will find a fai few hits. I just don;t think its a good choice for a beginner or even intermediate level geek - you have to be the full on uber geek to get good results from it.

mmm if thats the case then im prob better off with one good card than 2 med cards, i assume you do get the full x16 wid only 1 card. ill prob go for that then, as far as cpu fans go, ill sort that out myself, dont bother sending one, i should be getting paid at the end of the week so email me then and well sort it out

Will do mate.

Yeah I'd agree one card would be more suitable. Less power draw and less of a fiddle to get going. Just ask Khola about the problems he's had .

For TF2 / L4D you need to run the game at maximum detail settings and 1920 x 1200 resolution a 4ghz core speed (single / quad / dual - makes no diff to TF2. L4D slightly more mp aware), 2GB of fast memory and any of the following gfx cards (or better):

Nvidia:
8800GT / 8800GTS 512 / 8800GTX
9800GT / 9800GTX / 9800GTX+

ATI:
3870XT / 3870X2
4830 / 4870 / 48xxX2

Just pick whatever you can get the cheapest or whatever your personal prefence is. ATI 3 series cards are quite noisy, hot and power hungry though so bear this in mind.

8800GTS 512 £91.99 B Grade - bargain

You can do this by buying uber graphics and running at stock speed - I should've perhaps been clearer . However this is by far the cheaper way!. You'd need £300 or so of graphics card to get the same performance at say 3.16ghz dual core or 2.4ghz quad core.

The same cant be said for other games though - source games react very well to cpu power and are known for being light on the graphics. The more raw data you can push the more details you can add. The upside for us is its MUCH cheaper to build an uber Source rig than say an uber Crysis 2, QW:ET or UT rig. Graphics cards are way more expensive than cpu's.

well i think my current cpu knows i want to get rid of it, the top temp seems to creep up by 1 degree every day, its now running at 41 deg from 30 a week ago, and my gpu has gone up from 45 to 62. i need to get this don asap of more things are going to break and ill be looking at a much bigger bill.


ill stick with my 8600gts for the mo then consider getting a big mofo at some other point.

at the mo it stands
100 = cpu
35 = ram
70 = mobo
70 = psu
50 = aux fans/cooling
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325 just to keep the fuker running

but then again ill have a nice rig at the end of it with alot to add over the next few months

Sounding good! Theres a couple of very good tagan power supplies in the ocuk clearance section - and these are clearance and not B grade. theres a 700watt and 800watt both for £68.99, bargain! The Corsair 650TX at the moment is £73.59 on ocuk - £15 more than I paid a few months ago .

Also have ram if you need it . Kingston HyperX PC9200, comes highly recommended. If not what were you thinking of getting?

BTW - who is the talented girl in your avatar? She's very...distracting .