Recent content by Breegle

Heh, fair enough. Thanks, I think I will avoid it then. Pretty much it looks like 4850 or bust at the moment for my resolution, although no one's commented on the option of a HD 3870 yet. I did stumble across an 8800GT 1GB version for only £75, and that's only marginally more expensive than a HD...

The problem is that you can pick up HD 4850s from other UK stores below £105 if you're not bothered about rubbish stock cooling, which I am a bit. Though, you know, if it DOES die in my case I can RMA it fine, my case isn't horrible it's just an average old computer case. If it failed in there...

I guess, though I don't know that the case I've got is especially well ventilated. It's just a cheap old Antec case with a single fan at the back under the PSU. Gets dusty in there fairly often. Could probably do with a new one really but I'd rather spend the extra money on a graphics card! If...

Actually after looking around I found Xpertvision 4850s at around the same price as the 4830s are getting released. Should I worry about the temperatures those 4850s run at or just get the cheapest one available with the fairly rubbish fan?

My 8800GT was amongst what seems to be the many G92 cards that failed. I RMA'd it and was provided with a full refund, which was odd because I was expecting it to be replaced or repaired. The problem with that is I actually need the money more than a graphics card at the moment so I can't...

I see, well I can get an E2160 really cheap, like £35, so I think I'll do that. A couple of questions though: 1) Does the lower L2 cache effect performance significantly? 2) How far can I safely overclock with the stock cooler? If I want to overclock higher, what's the cheapest...

Hey guys, I'm under the impression that the E4500 is one of the best deals available for CPUs but my information is old. Is this still one of the best deals as a processor that costs not a lot and can overclock to quite a lot, or are there better contenders now? Cheers, Breegle

Thanks for the information and the thread links. In the end I decided to go with the 8800GT since I was able to find one only £10 more than a stock 9600GT and cheaper than OC'd 9600GTs, and from what I can gather, stock 8800GT = OC'd 9600GT. I've heard bad things about the stock 8800GT fan but...

Hey guys, I know this question has been overdone but with the varying prices I'm wondering if the answer's changed. I'm going to be getting one of these two: http://www.novatech.co.uk/nova...specpage.html?NOV-96GT http://www.novatech.co.uk/nova...specpage.jsp?NOV-88GT5 I'd like to...

DSF: Thanks very much, that's sealed it for me. I'm definitely getting the E4500 and saving some cash. I can take a suck-it-and-see approach; I'll use it at stock speed, and if it isn't up to scratch I'll overclock it. Also thanks to everyone who gave me video card advice, I definitely won't...

At the moment I'm getting the impression that E4500 is the way to go, which I'm pretty happy about. I'm a little nervous about the idea of trying to overclock it, though since there seems to be such a lot of success and the Intel Core Duos have got a reputation for being very overclockable with...

Hey guys, I'm trying to build a gaming PC on a budget. Graphics card will most likely be midrange (~8600GT), and I'm wondering how fast a processor I will likely need to play the latest games at playable frame rates. So what I need to know is: - how big a performance boost I will get from...