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My first smaller PC

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Garfje

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After years of getting larger and larger and larger case I have finally seen the light and am going for a smaller system (the old large ones will do their job in another room as media servers).

It's not exactly SFF but it's a micro-atx based system so I'm posting here.


Case: Silverstone TJ-08
MB: Asus P5B-VM
CPU: E 6700
Memory : 2Gb Adata DDR2-6400 (SPD settings for 1.8V) or Corsair PC-6400 (SPD settings for 1.9V)
HD: WD500KS
Graphics: any GF8800GTX (thank you silverstone for a nice case layout that allows this baby to fit ... my own photoshop experiment showed it would fit and silverstone confirmed by email that there is 2cm (a little bet less then an inch) room to spare)
PSU: Seasonic S-12 600 W ... I looked at the M-12 but I don't like the small 60 mm fan and the fact that it keeps running once it kicked in.
CPU cooler: Thermalright XP120

And it's this last one I'm worried about ... photoshop mockup has it fitting but very very tight ...
Is there anyone out there that has a TJ-08 and a asus P5B-VM with this cooler on it ?

If it doesn't fit I'm going for it's smaller brother the XP-90.


If you guys have any other remarks/suggestions .. please feel free.
 
Looks good.

I personally prefer the E6600 to the E6700 though. $200 to me doesn't justify a slightly higher multiplier while the $90 step from E6400 to E6600 can kinda justify the 4mb L2 cache.

You can overclock up to and beyond 6700 - (9*300mhz) > (10*266mhz) - speeds on that board with a E6600 AND the lastest P5B-VM bios.

But those are my personal feelings though and if you don't want to do any overclocking, then that's an alright system. :)
 
:)

as soon as I get it (which will be at the end of next week + 10 days for delivery (living in Europe su**s))... I will put pictures up ...

But the main point was will the XP-120 fit (or it's revised version the SI-120) or will I have to go for the XP-90.
 
AntiSocialMunky said:
Looks good.

I personally prefer the E6600 to the E6700 though. $200 to me doesn't justify a slightly higher multiplier while the $90 step from E6400 to E6600 can kinda justify the 4mb L2 cache.

You can overclock up to and beyond 6700 - (9*300mhz) > (10*266mhz) - speeds on that board with a E6600 AND the lastest P5B-VM bios.

But those are my personal feelings though and if you don't want to do any overclocking, then that's an alright system. :)
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I thought the 4MB cache on the E6600 doesn't do squat, <5 -8% boost in encoding type tasks...
How is that worth $90.00.If I was to build an Intel system now, I would more than likely go with a E6400 or less...

Of course to each his own...
 
I still cant make up my mind. i was going to make a setup with that exact same case, i hate big cases on my desk. i only use one optical and one storage drive. Any idea when some decent overclockable matx boards will come out?
 
if you plan to overclock, get the highest multiplier you can for that mobo.
 
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