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RoryB
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 Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: New build + monitor |
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Hi, going to take a trip down to Yongsan sometime this week to pick up a new computer. I am thinking about something like this:
E2180 + aftermarket cooler (should hit 3.0ghz+ easily()
Gigabyte DS3-R
Either 8800/3850/3870 depending on prices
2gb Ram - any cheap good clocking Korean brands I should know about?
500gb ish HDD
500w ish PSU
1080p capable monitor. Which one? I don't know! Are there any decent monitors available for around the 400k mark? There seem to be a lot of strange brands that I have never heard of. Any first hand experience? Would probably be looking at 24" as I don't think they do 1080p 22". |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: New build + monitor |
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| RoryB wrote: |
Hi, going to take a trip down to Yongsan sometime this week to pick up a new computer. I am thinking about something like this:
E2180 + aftermarket cooler (should hit 3.0ghz+ easily()
Gigabyte DS3-R
Either 8800/3850/3870 depending on prices
2gb Ram - any cheap good clocking Korean brands I should know about?
500gb ish HDD
500w ish PSU
1080p capable monitor. Which one? I don't know! Are there any decent monitors available for around the 400k mark? There seem to be a lot of strange brands that I have never heard of. Any first hand experience? Would probably be looking at 24" as I don't think they do 1080p 22". |
For a small price bump you can get a real core2duo CPU instead of just a crippled dual core with a stripped down cache. The E2180 CPU is to core2duos like the Celeron was to the Pentiums. The E2180 is the celeron to the core2 duo E4300.
It would be a far better investment to bump up a bit rather than simply trying to over clock, ESPECIALLY since you are planning to go TOP END on the GPU.
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RoryB
Joined: 21 Jun 2007
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| I was under the impression that the cache makes next to no differences in games. I will most likely go with the 3850 gpu if I can get it for 150k or under. Also from everything I have read it seems the e2180 clocks best de to the multi? |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Location: Your computer screen
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: New build + monitor |
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| RoryB wrote: |
Hi, going to take a trip down to Yongsan sometime this week to pick up a new computer. I am thinking about something like this:
E2180 + aftermarket cooler (should hit 3.0ghz+ easily()
Gigabyte DS3-R
Either 8800/3850/3870 depending on prices
2gb Ram - any cheap good clocking Korean brands I should know about?
500gb ish HDD
500w ish PSU
1080p capable monitor. Which one? I don't know! Are there any decent monitors available for around the 400k mark? There seem to be a lot of strange brands that I have never heard of. Any first hand experience? Would probably be looking at 24" as I don't think they do 1080p 22". |
That CPU is garbage. 3850 for under 150? Nope. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:56 pm Post subject: Re: New build + monitor |
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| RoryB wrote: |
Hi, going to take a trip down to Yongsan sometime this week to pick up a new computer. I am thinking about something like this:
E2180 + aftermarket cooler (should hit 3.0ghz+ easily()
Gigabyte DS3-R
Either 8800/3850/3870 depending on prices
2gb Ram - any cheap good clocking Korean brands I should know about?
500gb ish HDD
500w ish PSU
1080p capable monitor. Which one? I don't know! Are there any decent monitors available for around the 400k mark? There seem to be a lot of strange brands that I have never heard of. Any first hand experience? Would probably be looking at 24" as I don't think they do 1080p 22". |
That system would be totally hamstrung by that CPU. Go for at least an E6750......around 180,000 in Yongsan or online.
My E6750 is happily overclocked at 3.4ghz (from 2.66ghz). I didn't even have to raise the voltage.....in fact, strictly speaking, it's running under-volted. That means fairly cool running. The Zalman cooler helps of course.
Any mobo bought now should be 45nm Penryn/DDR3 ready. The DS3R is a good choice there.
RAM is nice and cheap at the moment so you can get 2GB's of good name-brand RAM for as little as 50,000. |
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