oh yeah if ne1 is planning on getting a psu ive had 3 qtec ones blow up bought an antec one i think and its a beast... dunno what psu to get tho 450w sounds good
I got an Akasa 460w for OcUK, but.........£60 OUCH!!!! Still paining, but needed the PCI-e power!! If you live anywhere near Cumbria, I have a used 450w 12vATX PSU for sale - £20ish!
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Q_Tec_139.html A few cheap n cheerful PSU's on this page!!
If venice core costs any more, it should settle down in a week or two. There is also the option of a 3200+ venice instead of 3500+ winchester... the venice core will probably still overclock better.
what you can do is wshat i got, a 64 3500+ winchester plus a ASUS A8V Deluxe(Via K8t800) then get another 512 MB of ram for the remaining £30 i got them from www.dabs.com
Best go for the MSI neo-II mobo wouldnt it. AGP8, (Not psi-e of course) heard they where one of the better boards.
Too late i've ordered this, wanted to stick with epox as this board has been absolutely brilliant, it took my processor upto 2ghz with watercooling before the agp/pci slots gave up CP-112-AM AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester 90nm (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-112-AM) x 1 MB-028-EP Epox EP-9NDA3+ nForce 3 Ultra (Socket 939) Motherboard (MB-028-EP) x 1 MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL) x 1 FG-000-AR Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940) (FG-000-AR) x 1
ideal, how does yours perform? do you play CSS? what sorta fps do you get? nice to meet someone with an almost identical rig
well, if you go on here http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=10&disc= theres a couple of graphs that show you how much better it is over standard.... I bought it cause it was on offer and the £26 i saved on the processor not being in retail box i bought that instead so its well worth buying the oem one and getting a better fan for the £26 they overcharge you!
how mines performs, well lets see, when it DOES perform i get about 50-60 fps on half life 2(1280x1024, other things full, no AA, no AF), currentyl i can barely play any game due to my mobo i think, so im gonna raise the agp voltage to 1.6v and if that doesnt work then im just gonna get the same mobo that you have
Does anyone know if this would fit on my mobo (Abit Fatal1ty), I ask only due to the ddr sockets being really close to the cpu socket!! Cheers
Indeed, the fan / hs! If you have the pleasure of seeing a diagram of a Fatal1ty board, you would see what I mean, but I have just seen a mobo with a big-ass Vapochill h/s and fan, so as long as the fan does not point at the mem, I should be ok!! Let me know actual performance though, as lab tests mean sh*t-all!! Cheers
