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If you want an optical drive, you'll have to get a different case.

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It is a new CPU so there aren't any videos yet, but it is the best you'll get for your money.
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ChangsITSupport wrote If you want an optical drive, you'll have to get a different case.

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It is a new CPU so there aren't any videos yet, but it is the best you'll get for your money.
Which would be a better case? If the first suggested case iss better for the airflow then I will get that one but if it does't matter then I will get this one.
I don't need a optical drive but you never know when you might need one. haha
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ChangsITSupport wrote If you want an optical drive, you'll have to get a different case.

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It is a new CPU so there aren't any videos yet, but it is the best you'll get for your money.
As for my question on the CPU, it was because I have saved all the pages where I will be buying the parts and was going to check then on January sales to see if the prices go down so I can get more for the PC, so I couldn't find them on scan or Amazon that's all + I have never heard of it lol.
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I would get the Define S, neither would be a bad choice though. Optical drives aren't really used nowadays and unless you need one then taking the nicer case is better.

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The Xeon is not worth the £110 premium over a 6600 if you're only gaming. Enthoo Pro M is fine, I'd just get that tbh. Just get the 850W PSU. It's better to have SLI support, just in case IMO. You could come in to a good bit of money sometime soon and feel like adding a 2nd GPU. If you really don't care about SLI support, a 550W unit would be fine.

If you really want the Define S, you can get an external optical drive anyway.
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Biebs wrote The Xeon is not worth the £110 premium over a 6600 if you're only gaming. Enthoo Pro M is fine, I'd just get that tbh. Just get the 850W PSU. It's better to have SLI support, just in case IMO. You could come in to a good bit of money sometime soon and feel like adding a 2nd GPU. If you really don't care about SLI support, a 550W unit would be fine.

If you really want the Define S, you can get an external optical drive anyway.
I'm almost positive I won't be getting a second card any time soon and I realy like the look of the Define s case TBF. I will finalise my decision on January or make another post in case there is better deals on parts.
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Biebs wrote The Xeon is not worth the £110 premium over a 6600 if you're only gaming. Enthoo Pro M is fine, I'd just get that tbh. Just get the 850W PSU. It's better to have SLI support, just in case IMO. You could come in to a good bit of money sometime soon and feel like adding a 2nd GPU. If you really don't care about SLI support, a 550W unit would be fine.

If you really want the Define S, you can get an external optical drive anyway.
Can you explain why you would chose the 6600 over the xeon? How is it not worth £110 premium?
Sorry for questions its just I like to know thing's like this.
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If you can spend the extra ~£100, then the Xeon is definitely worth it. Xeons and other Hyperthreaded CPUs are performing better in games than regular i5's. Many of the new games will take full advantage of Hyperthreading. Also if you ever wanted to do video editing/rendering in the future then the extra 4 threads would be very beneficial, worth the extra money IMO.
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hitmarkerx10 wrote
Biebs wrote The Xeon is not worth the £110 premium over a 6600 if you're only gaming. Enthoo Pro M is fine, I'd just get that tbh. Just get the 850W PSU. It's better to have SLI support, just in case IMO. You could come in to a good bit of money sometime soon and feel like adding a 2nd GPU. If you really don't care about SLI support, a 550W unit would be fine.

If you really want the Define S, you can get an external optical drive anyway.
Can you explain why you would chose the 6600 over the xeon? How is it not worth £110 premium?
Sorry for questions its just I like to know thing's like this.


Xeon isn't really aimed for gaming. There will be a little performance gain if you grab the Xeon over the 6600. No the Xeon is not bad but it's not worth the premium and you'd be better off with the 6600.
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Biebs wrote The Xeon is not worth the £110 premium over a 6600 if you're only gaming. Enthoo Pro M is fine, I'd just get that tbh. Just get the 850W PSU. It's better to have SLI support, just in case IMO. You could come in to a good bit of money sometime soon and feel like adding a 2nd GPU. If you really don't care about SLI support, a 550W unit would be fine.

If you really want the Define S, you can get an external optical drive anyway.
Can you explain why you would chose the 6600 over the xeon? How is it not worth £110 premium?
Sorry for questions its just I like to know thing's like this.


Xeon isn't really aimed for gaming. There will be a little performance gain if you grab the Xeon over the 6600. No the Xeon is not bad but it's not worth the premium and you'd be better off with the 6600.
What about the 6600k? Isn't this better? What about a I7?
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