Get up and running with Dual Core for around £155inc
 

Dont throw away your old DDR and AGP card just yet.....

If like me all your machines are dated like Socket A / AGP and plain old DDR then this could a big hit without shelling out a fortune buying PCI Express graphics cards / DDR2 memory.

Yes this is not pretty and chipset mixing will lose u a little performance /zero overclocking potential but is certainly something you could do if you're on a budget or just want to test the Dual Core Platform.

Prices off ebuyer...

E6300 - £117.50 inc (Good overclocker which you can keep for later when you get proper hardware)
E6400 - £153.94 inc
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/377/14/
ASRock 775DUAL-VSTA SKT 775 - £38.58 inc (it doesnt have firewire though :rolleyes: ) but a good search around will prolly reap a good few better boards in the pricerange or maybe even at the £30 mark

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I just decided to do this :

I should have a kick a$$ new machine for just £270 (price inflated by the need to have a couple of SATAs in RAID0).

The E6400 is only 143 squid on microdirect....

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 2.13GHz 1066FSB LGA775 2MB cache Retail inc.Fan (3yr Manufacturers Warranty) 1 121.99 121.99
DELIVERY 1 8.49 8.49
Asrock 775DUAL-VSTA motherboard skt775 VIA PT880 1066FSB PCI-E AGP 8x SATA RAID LAN ATX (Dual core & compatible) 1 31.45 31.45
160 GB Samsung HD160JJ SATA2 7200rpm 8mb cache oem 2 34.40 68.80

Total VAT £ 40.38
Total Price Excluding VAT £ 230.73
Total Price Including VAT @ 17.5% £ 271.11

Re: Get up and running with Dual Core for around £155inc
 

Ive used that board in fact Bopdude has a machine built by me on that board and ive touted it for ages ;)

I know not of any other boards with agp/pci-e and DDR and DDRII
The 805 clocks to over 3 gig on it btw ;)

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*PANTS*

Just realized that the missus is coming over 2morrow - will have to explain what this stuff is for ........ hmmmmm excuses coming up........

Machine in DC is bust need parts hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Oh well

Re: Get up and running with Dual Core for around £155inc
 

Im sure you will think of something ;)

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SWEET I know its a good clocker for the ol Pentium Ds but I really want a Dual Core for multitasking they are in a league of their own.

I'm expecting average to slight loss performance with this kit : Will get a decent mobo and *PHAT* cooler in the new year.

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I think Asus p5..... vm or somthing is the other board that can support DDR1 I was reading on some of the o/c forums but I went with this one as I can see all their settings on the forums LOL they've done all the hard work for me :

No fapping around with Vcores n memory timings heh. Anyway I wont be able to oc much on this board anyway so no worries.

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I got one of those boards on Saturday, with a E6600. I currently have 1 Gig DDR (PC400) RAM, and a GForce 6600 AGP. I'll be replacing the Memory when I get some more money, but the Graphics Card will have to wait until DX10 cards come down to a reasonable price.

I'm pretty sure I am not getting the best performance I could for games, but that's probably due to my card being AGP. I have to admit, while good performance in Games is nice, it's not a major point for me, as I tend to use the Xbox 360 for games anyway.

But, for DVD and Video work, it rocks. Nero was encoding a DVD at almost 400 frames a second!

Re: Get up and running with Dual Core for around £155inc
 

Your preaching to the already converted there dude :)

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Yeh I think granted we will prolly lose around 5~10% but hell we've saved well over £300 by recycling memory and grahics... I'm looking at this as a bit of a testbed to see how I get on... Just can't wait for it to come through the door lets just hope I dont get too excited like when I got my first barton.... mounted fan crack - core - shesh luckily I had bought 2 at the same time then :rolleyes:

I will try doing some DV capture/encoding (purpose of the upgrade) when I get the board trouble is I'll have to use an old firewire card as this board doesn't come with IEEE1394.

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Out of the Dual core range - whats the best bang for buck? Is it worth shelling out for the E6600 for the 4meg cache?

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yes

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Mate I read the reviews about the E6xxx ages back and was just gob smacked !

I had already converted when I read the reviews ! Now I'm jsut getting the hardware :)

PS Quad core review ? Overkill maybe think a bump in speed would have been nicer than going quad core.

just reading this at the moment

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/09/10..._uk/index.html

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I think so if you're gonna being doing some heavy encoding / CAD etc AND ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GONNA BE USING THAT PIECE OF JUNK CALLED WINDOWS

BTW E6600 was my first choice many months back

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Only over kill cuz its 700 quid lol

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Yeh but my point is that it'll be tricky to max out all 4 cores in everyday use and even if you do wheres the bandwidth going to go ? Surely the harddisk wont be able to take it hence becoming a system bottleneck.

Anyone know if the filesystem can handle a dual core unraring on 1 core and unziping on the other core simultaneously.

I mean how does the filesystem react to that ?

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At least WPA works though eh! :D