Silent Warrior Posted November 28, 2010 Posted November 28, 2010 NOW I have something that definitely belongs here! In my topic in Chitchat (one more 'I r upgrades, j00!'-thread...) I just described a kind of packaged deal of used hardware that looks pretty sweet at first glance. I was hoping to get back to the guy ASAP (like next week, but preferably tomorrow :)) and since Chitchat seems slow at the moment... The package consists of the following: Intel Core i7 860 2.8GHz Socket 1156 Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4 Corsair 4GB (2x2048MB) 1600MHz XMS3 DHX ---- Thermalright TRUE Black 120 med 2st SickleFlow 120 2000 RPM Blue LED -OR- CoolIT ECO ALC Cooler med 2st SickleFlow 120 2000 RPM Blue LED Note that the motherboard is mini-ATX - my chassi is full-size. Another thing to note is that there is only one PCI-slot - which my soundcard will have to occupy. I'm not in the know of the state of network-cards for PCIe - if the built-in NIC doesn't play nice with Linux (seems like it should by now, but I have yet to track down a statement explicitly saying so)... Does this pose any 'interesting' challenges in terms of cooling, though? I guess that the cooling the seller used should be just fine, but I want a little... speed-bump. Such as taking this 2.8 GHz doohickey to 3.3-3.6. Now, this isn't the CPU I had in mind, either. I don't really care for hyper-threading - four cores are enough and then some - but his asking price is near what I'd have to pay for a new i5-760 system with cheaper RAM. I know absolutely nothing about the coolers or RAM, but I feel... attracted to it. I can also make an offer for just the RAM, so I'm not locked in to Intel immediately. What do YOU say to this?
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