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[hanguker]

I'm pretty happy with my buy last month.

Core2Duo E4300 O/C 3.0 stable and cool (load 50C) (stock cooler!) Beats E6700 on Benches. (102K)
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (Rev3.3) (126K)
Digionce? 2 X DDR2 1G PC2-6400U (108K)
XFX 8600GT TripleX 256MB (highest factory O/C you can get) (149K)
Seagate SATA 320G (78K)
Korean brand black case (24K)
Korean brand 450W PSU (22K)

It's working great! I'm getting 60-90 FPS on Company of Heroes, which is one of the most demanding games out these days. Also, it eats up Battlefield 2142. I couldn't ask for anything else with my budget ghetto rig!

I also dumped 202K on a nice Alphascan 20" LCD. Good stuff and cheap!

Hope this helps out all you guy with bills to pay, families to feed, and <ack!> mortgages like me.
You don't need to dump 2Million to have a decent gaming system in Korea. This system is far from the best but it works and it games VERY well.

[Wrench]

Nice system. I rather not skimp on the PSU cause that usually ends up haunting me. But its a nice little system. Computers are not worth investing money in. The least you spend the better.

[Demophobe]

Well-built!



Bang for buck, you put together a nice one.

[hanguker]

Thanks for the reps.

I've been really happy (and a little surprised) with the overclock ability of these lower end Core2Duos. I thought a lot of the websites were BS'ing when they said the got the 4300 to 3.4Ghz. I got it there easily, but it was getting dangerously hot with that high a bus speed. Maybe with a custom cooler...but not worth it for me.

No problem with the really cheap memory and PSU...yet

I had a cheap PSU in my old system with no problems, though. I don't see what the big deal is with spending tons of money on them. As long as it has solid capacitors I figure everything should be ok...but I'm no expert just been lucky maybe.

[esetters21]

WTF would anyone want that POS??? You can build a new one in Yongsan for less.

I'm only pushing back Hanguker





Seriously, it's nice for what it is.

[chevro1et]

Nice OC, nice performance, nothing wrong with building a budget rig that performs like something more expensive... that is what building your own rig is all about. nicely done.

[hanguker]

@esetters

BTW - If anyone is interested in O/C'ing an e4300 on a Gigabyte board, this guide helped me tremendously!

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=610&p=0