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Old Apr 21, 2007 | 04:51 PM
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Cheers lads

Apparently my Vapo will be shipped back to me on Monday, pics soon

As for graphics cards, I think it's gunna be a 7600GT, which is better than the X850XT apparently, about the same, but the nvidia card has Shader Model 3, thats about it. Apparently both will run CS:S on full settings, so that'll do me, will run Aero too

As for mainboards, it's between a Gigabyte DS3, Asus P5B-E+ or my personal board of choice, the new DFI Infinity 965-S Dark, which is a fooking awesome board, ment to be the best 965 chipset board out, but the problem is, its not out here yet Might be worth holding on for though! The FSB goes higher on it than both the Asus and the Gigabyte.

Seems theres a new chip out too, the old E6300 Core2Duo was 1.86Ghz, with 2mb cache and it was an allendale core. They have, for the same price, now released a E6320, which is again 1.86Ghz, but has 4mb cache and a conroe core So that's the chip I'll be getting.

Still unsure about memory, the OcUK value stuff loks a bit too cheap to be good? Theres also Patriot DDR2-6400 that looks ok, cheap too, with 4-4-4-12 timings

It'll all start to fall in place next week I think, when me student loan arrives Just got to see if I can hold out for the DFI board
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