http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/DFI.html
:D
still though, I'm waiting for P5W DH Deluxe :toast:
Overclocking Results
Coming soon...
Printable View
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/DFI.html
:D
still though, I'm waiting for P5W DH Deluxe :toast:
Overclocking Results
Coming soon...
You'd have to be a complete muppet to buy anything from those guys, lets just say, customer service isnt their strong point...
I wouldnt touch em with a barge pole...
Just my opinion though...
Same here, but I'm also going to look into the P5B-Deluxe.Quote:
still though, I'm waiting for P5W DH Deluxe :toast:
ditto, QFT :fact:Quote:
Originally Posted by P-Dub
Gosh mobos are quite expensive this time round. I remember when i got my 1.6a and 2.4C, mobos were just about the £100ish mark, for a top end model too, now they seem to be almost as expensive as the CPU youre going to put in them.
Is everyone in consensus about the ASUS being the board of choice, not too pleased with my DFi ultra D at the moment. The last Abit board I had was the IC7, which was decent, but not as impressive as what my BD7II previously.
I have to agree with the customer service thing, it is REALLY poor..
However, it was merely a link to show they are coming.. ;)
I'm holding out for the RD600 myself, tho I'll guess time will tell on this front...
With the DFI I just felt in love at first sight:D and with the pictures posted by coolaler shure will perform great withthe E6700 a 2GB Super Talent 6400 CL4.
Just will change for the DFI lan party RD600 or for an Asus, but not the P5W DH Deluxe
Have to say that ocuk customer service has been ok in my experience, maybe because of the amount of money I've spent there over the last year (they actually answer my e-mails). I understand that other people have had problems though.
btw, what has happened to CPU City? It's as if they've disappeared off the planet.
Gonna wait for some nVidia socket 775 DFI board reviews and comments before I buy any Conroe; prolly get the E6700 when I'm convinced about the mobo.
Conroe CPUs are now in pre-order from OcUK also.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatal...Core_Duo2.html
Prices are slightly above what I was expecting.
Me 2 mate, ill be waiting and hopefully they will drop a bit. The E6600 £252, i was looking for around the £200 mark.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kesnel
Maybe me just wishfull thinking.:cool:
its a preorder price, expect it to drop when they are released.
OCUK are thieves.
Guess we'll just have towait and see. I fear however that the number of noobs that are on their forum will just snap them up at these inflated prices and OCUK will think to themselves thats it's gonan be a-ok to sell them at that price. What we need here is a little healthy competition
LOL.. I have to confess I pre-ordered one :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Bravo
Only because they won't be £200 atleast for a few months. Intel set something like $396 = £216
On top of that we have rip off Britain prices.. so I'm expecting them to be around £240 but I wanted to secure myself an early batch. (ocuk were first in UK to order from Intel apparently)
Also my current pc is playing up at the moment so theres no way I'm waiting till prices drop..
EDIT: Oh but I believe any of prices above the E6600 are inflated.. no way would I pay £411 for an E6700Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
EDIT: oh woops was meant to be an edit :p:
gotta love constructive criticismQuote:
Originally Posted by Iconyu
:p:Quote:
Originally Posted by ea6gka
Oh yeh and I didn't mind ordering on ocuk this time because warranties are with Intel..
http://tweakers.net/pricewatch/cat/612Quote:
Originally Posted by ea6gka
Please note Hollands tax is higher than the UK's, all prices include tax and each item is listed at several stores. After conversion the cheapest three stores have each CPU at around £40 lower than OCUK.
Some stuff turned up and I won't be able to buy on launch, so I can't really stand in you guys way if you really want to make sure you have one from day one. But I've never really trusted those guys.
Whichever way you choose, I hope you enjoy your conroes. Post some benchies for the guys that have to wait a few weeks.
the e6600 is supposed to be $316, can't be assed to check rates at the moment but call it, conservatively £180, should be maybe £210-220 after tax.
OCUK< EVERY SINGLE TIME twat on and on in their forum, we had a personal meeting with "insert company here", we ordered first, are the biggest in the uk and therefore will get priority allocation of chips. all of which is absolute bull:banana::banana::banana::banana:, but makes people rush to pay more money to make sure they get one. i can't think of how many times they insist they have the lowest, one time only, price on something. or have an exclusive item not available anywhere else. for instance they insisted they were the only people to have maxtor dm10+'s in for like 2 weeks, they weren't even the fecking first in the uk, there were a good 10 stores that had them.
there is a slim chance they might deal with some manu's directly, but its simple not cost effective to do it with most as the dsitributors, worldwide and uk ones provide far far far better prices as they buy in huge huge bulk. as for the biggest store, dabs sells more stuff in a few hours then ocuk does in a week, they are a tiny part of the market, but overclock, tek's, and all the other places are small too.
wait for release, scan, ebuyer maybe, microdirect, poss tek's, should all have them in, prices up so they should drop on release day. dab's tend to not care so much about getting stuff on day of release as components are a relatively small part of what they do.
lol shops have to make a profit aswell you know..Quote:
Originally Posted by drunkenmaster
Why are so many of you so negative towards overclockers.co.uk ?
i have loads of stuff from them in the past and on the 2 times i had problems they replaced the items both times no fuss. Once i need to get a card replaced same day so i drove to the store and even though they have a sign in the store saying returns wont be processed while you wait they did this one for me.
they are a business so what ever it takes to make a sale they will do and if that means we are the first ect they will do it. If you buy from them without checking other places and end up paying more than you could have thats not there fault.
as far as conroe prices go in the uk the E6600 it should be between £210 and £220 Plus Vat this is based on trade prices i have seen.
how you doing lary not spoke to you in a while i have an E6600 and p5w dh on back order too.
meh, don't sweat it, you're only one in a sea of folk mate. I understand your POV on this one. I'm just hoping that while OCUK are first off the blocks here there will be plenty of other retailers getting in on the action soon, which will help lower the prices somewhat. Plus Intel says there gonna meet the demand with a good supply so fingers crossed!Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
hey Lee :D
Yeh, I'm not too bad mate, how are you?
Quote:
Originally Posted by leejsmith
Good thanks but not benching like i used to dont have the workshop anymore.
what ddr2 are you going to use when you get your conroe ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
+1Quote:
Originally Posted by leejsmith
I suspect my Seasonic 600W is dodgy and blew my week-old Sandy 3700. Phoned OcUK and explained this to them, they gave me an RMA number immediately. Can't argue with that. I've no regrets about pre-ordering an E6700 from them; as I explained elsewhere, it may be a premium price but it means I'm guaranteed one as soon as they arrive. If there's a water-in-desert situation with these (like the Optys last autumn), even less reason to regret.
Tekheads has the Infinity listed for roughly the same price, slightly cheaper postage.
Bought some ADATA DDR2-667 off ebay for £90 (2GB)Quote:
Originally Posted by leejsmith
If I find out that it'll limit my Conroe OC then I'll buy something better but atm I'll see how this stuff clocks.
could only find one review on them which was crappy; OC results = 230 fsb they say, like wtf does that mean lol :rolleyes: They don't say what divider they were using, what volts and whether the (3.8ghz p4) cpu was limiting them.
So anyway, I'll see how they clock at first. Worst case scenario is they do stock and only get chip to 3ghz lol... THEN I'll upgrade ;)
i just bought a 2gb kit of the Gskill 6400 HZ 0606 these do 500+ easy with timings of 4-4-3-2 @ 2.2V.
I also have 2 x 1gb kit patriot 5600 xlbk but i had problems running 4 sticks they wouldnt overclock as well as 2 sticks so i am selling them.
Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
Where did you get your HZs from lee? I've been looking for a place that do them in the UK, but can only find the PC2-64000 ZXs or the PC2-8000 HZ set. I was going to import but I'd rather order from UK retailer if they've out there. :)
sweet :slobber:Quote:
Originally Posted by leejsmith
Hopefully I can gather some funds together for some better ram a bit later on..
Awesome, thanks for you help. :)
Those at Kustom are definitely using the new Micron IC?
Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
Take the heatspreadors off, its cosair value ;)
ibby
I was dissapointed when I saw those OcUK Conroe prices, I'm sure they'll be more affordable later in the year. I'll also probably wait until they have them at Microdirect/Aria.
My company buys gskill ddr2 trade from gobeyond in ireland and they have a online shop @ www.pc-memory-upgrade.co.uk but i just checked there website and they dont have it listed.
Looks like you have found some anyway.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kesnel
anyway back on topic
Any conroes shipped yet ?
ingram micro uk still show 13 of july
are you sure, how do you know? how do they clock on 5-5-5-15?Quote:
Originally Posted by ibby
yes , take a look at Andre Yang scores with that ram since he brought them to 550 Mhz ! DDR 800@1100 WOOOOTTQuote:
Originally Posted by leejsmith
I ckecked mine and lucky guy with 0606 serial number too :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kesnel
Sorry to continue off topic but yes, i emailed Kustom and they told me theirs were 0605, i bought some from them and indeed they were 0605. They may be 0606 now, i dont think it makes a difference.
I found all the prices that OcUK are offering on these chips are rather high. From the pricing guides I’ve seen, I was expecting the E6300 to be in the £100 region with the E6600 in the £150 - £200 region. But still, these chips are pretty cheap when compared to what they are competing with - £200 will just about buy you an X2!
Gibbo on ocuk says theyve ordered some 0606 GSkills and are en-route to the shop and will retail at £175 inc Vat
Just got some of mine in. Few RRP ones and then an ES one.Quote:
Originally Posted by graham_h
Funny the Retail from my Intel contact from Japan and they got here faster than the ES from the USA.
Yet to open my retails but they have been sold anyway
I took the heat spreadors off me :DQuote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
Real easy to take off mate, but you will need a 2nd pair of hands ;)
my processor is fsb limited :(
so my results are .. 355mhz /710
4 3 3 8 :D @2.1v
but iam sure with 5 5 5 X they will go higher
ibby
SO what motherboard's are you all looking at ?
I have the P5W DH deluxe on order and lawry does too is anyone looking at anything else.
Ya, i read that they were doing about 720 on cas 4 on Newegg reviews. If they do that I'll be very happy because I bought these for only slightly more than a 1gb kit of corsair value lol..Quote:
Originally Posted by ibby
Thanks for getting back to me. I ordered some from Memory Configurator as I could get them without VAT. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlet Infidel
Edit: They just arrived with DHL now, they're from batch 0606 now at Mem Configurator.
Thats good news, i cant give you any figures atm but im very pleased with mine.
Strange, Customer service has been second to none in my past experiences.Quote:
Originally Posted by P-Dub
Is the ES chip unlocked at all? if so what multis are available on it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete
Gladiator computers have just started there pre order service for Core Duo 2. same kind of prices as overclockers though. But there customer service is really good.http://www.gladiatorcomputers.com/Pr...&Link=SideMenu
more expensive than ocuk :stick:Quote:
Originally Posted by s0nicp
Should get my P5W DH Deluxe on Tuesday. I ordered the last one in stock in the UK :D
It is a good board many of the higher overclockers got already 450 on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
It is hard decision when you have to choose betweeen wait or get it now.
I think just 2 or 3 websites have the PW5 DH, but it still very expensive.
I think the right price should be between 140£ to 150£, some of them are selling for 180£, they must be crazy about profit :(
For me, i have a Asus P5WDH on it's way, along with 2x1gb G.Skill PC6400 ZX's. I dunno how they clock, but stock for them is ddr2-800 4-4-4-12 so they can't be all that bad?Quote:
Originally Posted by leejsmith
Got them for £140 as well, nice price imho.
Welcome to the ugly world of the early adopter :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Metroid
heard of the saying "ppl know the price of everything but the value of nothing"???Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
Quote:
Originally Posted by mouawad
Look this price right here and take a good sense.
Asus P5W DH for less than 144£. :)
Asus P5W DH 144£
The right should be 140£. Overclockers .co.uk sell it for 176.19 so it is 33£ more than its competitors. Bad enough.:(
I got mine for £153 + shipping. Not bad tbh. I had a look at morecomputers, but they say it'll only be in stock after the 15th of June :(
ermm.... its 1st July today mate.
Quote:
Originally Posted by K.I.T.T.
Yes just 15/07. where have you got for 153£?
KustomPC's. But they're out of stock now, sadly.
Quote:
Originally Posted by mouawad
it was a dig at ocuk customer service :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Metroid
Just noticed ocuk conroe's have gone from;
"Arriving July/August"
to
"Arriving July 24th 2006"
:D
Shame I'm on holiday until the 30th :(
Atleast Royal Mail will hold it until then :)
i should have a p5w dh at work tomorrow and the cpu is still showing the 17th of july.
The SLi mobo thing is really irritating. It's kind of central to what I want. I don't want to end up paying via the nostrils for some expensive overclocking non-SLi board. (Nor an expensive doesn't overclock very well SLi either, when they arrive)
I'd go for a cheap overclocking mobo tho, to play with. Any ideas? Do any of the Asrock boards do what the Dual did for s939? That's the sort of thing. Plenty UK dealers got 'em, cheap as chips (relatively).
Gladiator Computers are the single worst company of any description that I have ever had to deal with. They are rude, ignorant and have none of the customer focused quality which they might claim. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by s0nicp
Don't touch them with a barge pole, myself and many others I know have been left completely gobsmacked at their lack of customer service. :fact:
I could go into more detail but that should suffice for now.
My Asus P5W-DH has just arrived from KustomPC's - WOOO.
Once conroe gets here tomorrow i'll be happy as a bear who got the honey. Yay!
Just ordered mine from chillblast, should be here friday, then just need my chip.. w00t :)Quote:
Originally Posted by don_vercetti
what chip you getting mate?
I've got an ES E6300 arriving, but once E6600 is out and established, and all price gouging has stopped, i'll be getting one of them.
True dat brother, I had a 6800 from them faulty (artifacting) on arrival checked it in 3 machines rma'd it & they said there was nothing wrong with it & sent it back to me:mad: , i'll never use them again!Quote:
Originally Posted by c16
pre-ordered an e6600 form ocuk.. cmon cmon.. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by don_vercetti
if release date stays at 23rd I'll be on holiday until 30th.. :(
Been moved forwards to the 14th so legend has it. You best hope that's correct, eh.
Yeh, fingers crossed mate :DQuote:
Originally Posted by don_vercetti
Just for ref, DO NOT GET THE BAD AXE MOBO
It suck and just died. The Asus is faster and way better, how ever that one just died so sadly i'm left with a CPU only till my new bords arrive
Asus says friday to me and Intel yet to find how to RMA it in the uk aghhh
Just wish my DFI would show up
w00t! Look what the citylink man brought :D
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/5248/dscf00361si.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1459/dscf00378mh.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/2284/dscf00384sa.jpg
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1373/dscf00406fp.jpg
and my current conroe stuff ready :)
http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/7776/dscf00415yo.jpg
Now wait for the chip :)
:toast: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
Where did you buy from in the end? What bios does did it ship with?
Temptation has finally got the better of me; I'm going to have to order one this weekend.
The Asus P5W-DH is feature wise an awesome motherboard. The wireless works really well, and the HD sound is very nice.
Set all my kit up this morning, been playing around with it for a bit. Just downloading 3dmark05 at the minute, but check out how it's doing at the moment;
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/392...2m21ghz9ad.jpg
I just ran that in the background, as i was browsing the net and playing with the HD audio. Very Very impressed so far.
Temps peaked at 33c, and the vcore was utterly stable at 1.23v (although it's set 1.275v in BIOS).
EDIT
Mine shipped with 0401, booted fine with my E6300 first time. I bought it from KustomPC. In case you wondered, Kesnel.
got it from Chillblast, wanted to order from Lambdatek as it wouldve been about £20 cheaper but the ETA kept moving back a week at a time so jumped on the ones from Chillblast.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kesnel
0401, I heard this don't support Conroe?? Don Vercetti, you say it's fine with allendale? hmm..
well I emailed ASUS to try to get them to send me a chip but being ASUS, I doubt I'll get a reply before christmas :)
Reckon I should use my SB Audigy 1 or use the onboard? :)
edit: oh yeh and the box and the weight of this thing.. jeesus, I though Chillblast had chucked in a free psu and a couple of x1900s when I picked up the box lol..
Stepping 4 Allendale's are all i can confirm. Both myself and a friend are using them fine on the P5W-DH. Rumour is it'll also work fine with retail conroe's, but i dunno about that. No-one has one yet i don't think, but presumably your E6600 would end up being a retail one.Quote:
0401, I heard this don't support Conroe?? Don Vercetti, you say it's fine with allendale? hmm..
Sound..i'd take the Intel HD over Audigy 1 anyday.
kool, cheersQuote:
Originally Posted by don_vercetti
found some conroes cheaper than overclockers
delivery is down for the 18th of july
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/s....html?IL-E7600
might been posted already :rolleyes:
Dabs has also listed them on their website, availability 'End of July' though, and prices almost identical to ocuk.
http://www.dabs.com/productlist.aspx...147&PageMode=1
set evrything up yesterday, aslong as you RTFM is not a bad board. The shutdown bug is same as my p4gpl-x so I'm sort of used to it.. POST takes quite long sometimes and is normal at other times..
Here's where I am with my *UBER* celeron :D
http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/1701/untitled19hg.jpg
1.5v in bios :D
here's my sexy lapped celeron :cool:
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/1507/celerond0fb.jpg
but man is this thing horrid in CSS :(
w00t! My G.Skill HZ DDR2-1000 has shipped from OcUK. Still don't know what mobo... still want a real cheapo til the SLI DFI boards come out.
Asrock HDTV thingy?? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by stone_cold_Jimi
looks like it lol! Gotta say that the s939 Dual, for all its faults, got as much from the CPU as boards 3 times the price within the HTT limit. Hope these are as benign.Quote:
Originally Posted by lawrywild
How much were they? I need some new (and decent) DDR2 RAM, this G.Skill PC6400 ZX just doesn't cut the mustard.Quote:
Originally Posted by stone_cold_Jimi
£362 with tax and shipping. I already have 2 GB of Ballistix DDR2-1000 (~£320), so it's proving to be an expensive obsession. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by don_vercetti
:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by stone_cold_Jimi
don_vercetti, just order some 6400HZ (0605 batch) from memory-configurator, will clock almost as high as 1000HZ kit clocks as in 1100-1200 but costs a hell of a lot less, half price actually.
Good call, it's good stuff, judging by the threads. Ultimately my stuff is for a 6700 and Vapo LS rig, but stock air first. I'm wondering what it'll do, given the leeway on offer for either speed or tight timings. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by qui
Quote:
Originally Posted by qui
yeah im tempted by the HZ as well. 6400HZ. I'm trying to sell my Zx for the same price i bought it for on OcUK (think i might be able to) then i'll order the HZ's.
The HZ is a good choice. I agree that spending on 8000's is overkill atm
Just get some Xtreem ram, its a bargain!
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=101692
Got mine from here
http://www.memory-configurator.com/products/10553.html
Seconded.Quote:
Originally Posted by qui
But they've actually got the 0606 stock now.
I ordered from them last week and they shipped as soon as my payment cleared. Had to pay via bank transfer as any other method would've worked out more expensive due to companies GBP to Euro conversion. Bank cleared tuesday i think and I got them today. :banana:
£175 shipped is a great deal if you ask me. I tried to get tekheads to price match as i was gonna buy a few other price matched things from them but they said they couldn't - it'd be below their cost price!
:woot: That's it for DDR2 RAM, I hope. Never want to buy another stick. :D
Bugger me, how much did that little lot cost you?
Ssshhh...No one tell him about these, the guy will bankrupt himself on DDR2...
http://www.gskill.com/en/f2-8500phu2-hz.html :D