Full System Purchase!
Just brought a full Machine:
Place: Cassete World, Lamington Road, Mumbai.
Date: 28th June 2008
Items:
Processor: Intel Q6600 G0 - Rs. 9775(CPU-Z says stepping B revision G0 - thats the last revision right?)
RAM: Trancend 2X2GB at 800MHz - Rs. 3900(Can someone please tell me the timings to set, the motherboard reviews say the timings should be set manually although it working fine on auto)
Hard Disk:Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM -Rs. 4750
External: Maxtor 250GB - 3.5'' - Rs. 3500
DVD Writer: ASUS 20x Lightscribe - Rs. 1550
Cabinet: Cooler Master RC690 CM 690 (Transparent Side panel)
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Power Supply: CoolerMaster eXtreme Power 600W - Rs. 7700
Graphics Card: Palit 8600GT Super -Rs. 3900 ( I know it seems bad for the rest of the rig but I decided to wait it out, will sell it in December if possible - maybe get 2-3K back its got a fan and heatsink so it doesn't get hot at all, and upgrade to either 9800GTX+, HD 4850 or if possible, HD 4870.)
Monitor: Viewsonic VX1940 -Rs. 10200 (native resolution of 1680X1050, but reviews say this has issues in dark bands - impulsive buy because the dell SP2008WFP was 14.5K! Disgusted!)
Speakers: Altec Lansing VS2421 2.1 Spkrs - Rs. 2400
Headset: Mitashi Over Ear Headet Mic. Rs. 250
Mouse: Logitech MX518 - Rs. 1300
Keyboard: Logitech Media Keyboard -Rs. 450
Case Cooling: AMigo 4 LED - 120mm - Rs. 400
RAM Dynet 1GB 667MHz - Rs. 800 (for older PC, but the board does not support over 533MHz so it runs t that and the 256MB is no longer detected, even after swapping the slots
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Place: www.theitwares.com
Date: 1st July 2008
Items:
Motherboard: MSI P7NSLI PLATINUM NVIDIA nForce750iSLI C55 1066 FSB - Rs. 8650
Pendrive: Corsair 4 GB CMFUSB2.0-4GB
CPU Cooling: Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme -Rs. 2550
Heatsink Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-2 (4gms) - Rs. 400
Sythe 1600RPM CPU Fan - Rs. 850
Issues:
Not sure about CPu's revision but I think its okay, someone please confirm. Seems to run at 34C idle with the cooler with an ambient of 31C
Don't know the RAM timings, can someone who has these RAMs please tell me the timings to use and if they can be overclocked at all and wether it will void warranty.
The monitor is crisp: mainly because of the resolution but not sure of its quality.
Dynet RAM detected but old 256 MB not detected anymore so, I'll make a thread here if anyone can help.
Motherboard had some issues, the SATA drivers from NVidia SUCK! BSOD on XP with nvgts.sys causing the crash. Vista Ultimate was stable So I knew it wasn't a hardware issue. Did some searching and found beta drivers on Guru3D which worked. Also, some of these chipstes have video corruption errors, thank god mine does not. All in all, NVidia chipsets are risky business. MSI is amazing value for money though and this board is probably better than the ASUS one which is 10K+, and almost as good as the EVGA (in some ways better, in some ways worse) - 11K+! Would not have brought NVidia chipsets if it weren't for the unlinked memory overclocking. Overall NVidia are getting worse(read
SUCKIER) by the day. My card is definetly going to tbe an ATI HD48xx
Other comments:
Don't buy from Cassete World unless you have time to bargain. My dad had to hurry so I got this stuff a little more expensive than I expected. ANd a special thanks to Mr. Rahul of the itwares for delivering this stuff. His prices are very balanced.
Especially love the mouse, the cabinet, the speakers - the bass is amazing, and now also the motherboard - althoug my frined just got a XFX 630i for 3.4K and says he got almost all the necessary features - neither of us are SLIing so that kinda makes me jealous - he is using a E8200 with 3 GB same RAM and a Palit 9600GSO - he's in Calcutta)