Recent content by thebigone

Forgot to mention, ill be using a HD4850 (which I've already got) The E8400 and Q6600 are the same price (£110 and £105 respectively) I went for the quad as i probably wont be upgrading again for about two and a half years. Ill probably just go for the 800 Ram. Ive had a look at the...

Building a computer with a budget of £425. here are the components Power Supply: Corsair 520W: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/114945 - £65.10 Hard Drive -WD 500 GB: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124228- £47.99 Case: Antec 300: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/143854 - £35.24 Keyboard: Saitek...

I meant Q9450 every time i wrote Q9 (couldn't be bothered to write it out in full every time lol ) But the more ive read up, the better the Q6700 looks, ill probably wait till around 10th August (as Hugh H suggested) and see which ones cheaper. But hasn't the Q6700 already had a massive price...

hmmm......I had hardly done any research on the Q9XXX series so i didn't know about the low multiplier. The most I would probably over-clock the Q9450 or the Q6600 is to is around 3.2Ghz (seen posts on forums of people getting the Q9 to around 3.7), so surely that combined with the fact it (the...

Ok thanks man........ ill wait for a while then

sorry to bring the topic back up, but im still stuck between these two Im building a computer myself, and dont see myself upgrading in less than 3 years (im a student now, and will be in 3 years ! need to save the moniesss), so im thinking i should go for the quad, but im worried about its...