Is this a good combo ?

scott wilcox

scott wilcox

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Hi guys this is the system i intend to order soon :-


Asus P5E3 Deluxe Intel X38 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

OCZ 2GB DDR3 PC3-14400C8 1800MHz Platinum (2x1GB) Dual Channel DDR3 (OCZ3P18002GK)

Lian Li PC-A10A Aluminium Full-Tower - Silver

Thermaltake ToughPower 1200W Modular Power Supply
Zalman CNPS9700-LED CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)


and as the processor i was going to get a :-

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

which i will overclosk and then replace with a :-

Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9650 "LGA775 Yorkfield" 3.00GHz (1333FSB)

when the price is right.


Is this a good move ? what do the experts think ?
 
DDR3 is in no way a good deal. The performance benefits are far outweighed by the immense cost.

How much are you looking to spend? How will you be cooling this?
 
about £2K for the complete system maybe £2.5K.

I was also going to get

HIS ATI Radeon HD 3870 XT 512MB GDDR4 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - Retail X 2 for crossfire

So you would go the DDR2 route then ?
 
That GPU would be a big bottleneck with the rest of that system. I tghink you budget is a bit too large, but I don't know which bits you need.

Exactly which parts do you need, i.e. case, CPU, memory, OS, graphics card, cooler, HDD, ODD, mobo.
 
You're kind of in a rough spot ATM concerning GPUs. The old GTXes are still around but you'll want to wait a few weeks and snag a new one for much better bang for the buck, so to speak.

Again, exactly what parts do you need, everything?
 
You don't need a 1200W power supply, No where near that 600W will do fine, or 700W if you want to be on the safe side with GTX's... However 1200W is like overkill.
 
ahh that make more sense. I had thought these were top end cards so was a bit puzzled. So what processor then ?

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6700 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.66GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

The

Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX6850 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail is too pricey at the moment
 
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This should be good for at least 3.4 GHz, probably more like 3.6 Ghz:
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In this the GTX is merely a placeholder for the cards coming out soon to replace the GTX as the top-end cards. The price will be about the same. You'll be more than happy with this setup so take the rest of your money and save it for an upgrade in 2 years. :)

The hard disks are for RAID 0 operation and should be good for 180-190 MiB/s.
 
Are you desperate for a quad core? Will you be overclocking? If not I would go for a E6850, its reasonably cheap and would last you quite a while, and you could always upgrade to the Penryn (quad cores) at a later date.
 
thanks for that. I have not worked out how you upload the image yet. SO basically you are going down the nVidia SLI route, with the 64 bit OS. I assume all my games and everything will be ok. e.g supreme commander, office e.t.c.

I do intend to overclock.

Yes i can see the Dual core is good value for the money at the moment. I guess thats makes sense and i go for the quad core later when they are
cheaper. I guess not much software takes advantage of the multi cores.
 
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scott wilcox said:
thanks for that. I have not worked out how you upload the image yet. SO basically you are going down the nVidia SLI route, with the 64 bit OS. I assume all my games and everything will be ok. e.g supreme commander, office e.t.c.

I do intend to overclock.
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They upload the image to imageshack (as you can see if you right click on the picture and click properties), then paste the link in the link tool in the message box when you reply.
 
No, that's not an SLi setup. I only think SLi is worth it at resolutions larger than 1920 x 1200, and even than not always. The new GTX will do just fine for you.

64-bit Vista has the same problems that 32-bit Vista has, so the whole bit-length thing shouldn't scare you away more than anything else.

Regarding the specs, in short you take a screenshot, upload it to a web host, then paste the image's URL between tags.

The specific method I use is this:
[list=1][*]Reduce window width until the scroll bar appears at the bottom of the page. This means that the list is as narrow as it's going to get which is helpful to readers who don't have wide monitors. I'm occasionally forced to browse from 1024 x 768 and looking at fullsize screenshots from larger monitors breaks the forum by widening the page.[*]I use the ScreenGrab extension for Firefox to capture a lossless .png of the part of the page I want to save.[*]I open the .png in the GIMP and save it as a lossless .gif. This typically reduces file size by about 50%, usually from about 180 kiB to 70 kiB. This can be helpful for readers with slower Internet access.[*]I then upload the .gif to imageshack.us.[*]Finally I paste the "direct link" URL between my [img] tags.[/list]:)
 
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Vista 64 here. Can get 32bit drivers for my nebula TV card but not 64 bit :( Thats the only problem I came across. Everything else is fine :D
 
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