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Yeah, I'll play. HazT

I spent that last summer and I didn't even get SLi, that's not too bad at all...

Yeah they are fine for the most part.

Yeah but not that far, it's essentially the same as the lower clocked 45nm cores. So essentially it's allready overclocked and takes advantage of the natural stability. To overclock it further you'll need some extra cooling and some extra voltages and stuff, not exactly beginner stuff. It'll be damn quick anyway, and perfectly stable, so no worries really.

If you can stretch to it, I'd go with the P5N32-E. You could have easily overclocked a 2.4Ghz q6600 to 30Ghz.

Personally I'm with Kris on this. Go quad core. Intel q6600 will easily see 3Ghz if not more on a stock cooler, and games like crisis take full advantage of all the cores. It will probably be cheaper and it's a fair bit more energy efficient.

Then raped savagly by Fat Pants. Or the rape may be first, either way, it's pretty bad.

I love my nVidea 650i Fatal1ty FP-IN9, which cost me 60 quid last summer. Overclocks well enough, supports everything I need. Slightly more expensive than the ATi chipset boards, but from experience, I have found them to be better overclockers and better framerates in most gaves with an equivelant dual card setup with very similar spec.

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I need me a pair of 8800GTs, that'd be swish right now.

Except now he doesn't have an OS, so it's essentially all useless.

*drop - read: spend. Slang 'drop 100 notes', 'spend 100 pounds' I just think you could spend more on a motherboard, and feel more of a difference than spending £100 on one 8800GT as opposed to a £130 8800GT. If I was in his situation, I would look at spending £100 mobo £100 graphics £150 processor £50 memory £60 OS

Yeah, mostly they are, but it's largely in terms of future proofing. If you waited a year before going SLi, you will find you wont really have as many upgrade options as if you had the faster mobo. The intel coolers are OK on the whole, not the coolest or the quietest. I run a Zalman on my e6600 as it has a fair overclock. Seems to keep it happy at about 40degceg. Yeah, spec looks good otherwise.

I personally wouldn't spend double the price of the motherboard on a graphics card. I'd drop about 100 on the mobo and 100 of the video.

Now, I just feel sorry for you. Kinda like a retarded dog.

You are correct in your analysis. I think you should find the PSU will only fit in one direction. So put it in that way and unless you encounter any problems witht he actual fitting, you will be fine.

To be honest, you are no-where near Muel/Revolver/Fat Pants standards of annoying, so keep working at it.

Sounds good, but dont make the same mistake I did and buy an SLi Mobo, and then an ATi graphics card. SLi is for nVidea cards only, Crossfire being ATi's equivelant. Decide now whether youw ant to go with ATi for a while, or with nVidea, and in the end you'll pay less if you do decide to double up. You'll need to ultimately buy a mobo for either manufacturer, you can't have both. Although whilst running a single card, it makes no difference. Also, if you did go crossfire with that card it wouldn't really be worth it, it's old technology, and byt the time you want dual cards, you'll more than likely be better of buying a single up to date card. So I would recommend Intel E6750 @ 2.66Ghz Asus P5N32-E SLi Motherboard Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400CS nVidea 8800GT - pretty much any manufacturer here, very good cards for the money Which is roughly £350 for all Or if you wanted to go for ATi, Intel X38 mobo ATi Radeon 4850 - again, pretty much all of them are good, read reviews and stuff Same RAM+processor Should still come to around £350 Add Vista to that for 60 odd quid and voila.

Sorry I ruined your joke.

Technically, it's an anti oxidant, and technically, that's a Ronseal slogan, not Hammerite.

Smaller the case, higher the price. Shuttles are small but they are expensive, and they need a decent air flow to keep them cool, so they aren't quiet. Personally I can't fault overclockers.co.uk for sales, but their support have been known to dick people around. They have decent prices and delivery is pretty good.

I dunno man, you better check with t'others, but I'm cool with it if they are...

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