OCK new Ultima Accelerator 4850 and OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent ATX2 Power Supply

[Barlick]

I like the spec and price of OCK's new Ultima Accelerator 4850 which is based on:

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
- Asus P5Q Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- HIS ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI PCI-Express
- Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB SATA-II 32MB Cache
- LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive
- OCZ StealthXStream 500w Silent ATX2 Power Supply

I intend getting Vista Home Premium 64bit and a 22 Monitor (probably Samsung SM-226BW 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor).

I prefer to operate with at least hard drives: one for Operating System and One for Applications, With the price of hard drives being what they are now I fancy using 3 drive with the third used for data and media stuff.

Will the Power Supply specd above be good enough to run all this? Any other suggestions would be welcome.

 

[semi-pro waster]

The PSU will easily cope with you adding a few hard drives, I'd have absolutely no worries even if you were overclocking it as well (which would be easy and give you extra performance gratis).

 

[PhoenixUK]

Will be fine, although might not be enough if you decide somewhere in the future to go for extra 4870 in crossfire.

Also I wouldnt go for 22" monitor, either go for 20 or 24 .
And maybe ill change the hdd for f1.

 

[Barlick]

Thanks guys for the feedback.

Curious about the 20 inch or 24 inch monitor. Wouldn't a 24 inch monitor require a graphics card with more than 512MB to get the best out of it?

 

[Yewen]

Thanks guys for the feedback.

Curious about the 20 inch or 24 inch monitor. Wouldn't a 24 inch monitor require a graphics card with more than 512MB to get the best out of it?

Depends what games you are playing really.

We can upgrade the PSU on the system if you require, just place the order over the phone and ask to speak to Tom and I would be able to go through some options and the price increase with you.

As listed above, its not really needed though as the unit there can run two of the graphics cards, we would not ship a system like that as we leave headroom for upgrades in the future like what you are planning.

 

[Barlick]

Tom,

I forgot to mention that in the main I use Adobe apps (Photoshop CS3, InDesign CS2 and Dreamweaver CS3 etc) though not professionally. I do like watching DVD's on my 17 inch Monitor as I'm frequently in conflict the Mrs and kids regarding choice of TV viewing (who isn't . . . )

In terms of budget for the monitor £200 to £250 max is all I can stretch to.

 

[Yewen]

Got to say the 226BW is a good all round choice, got one that I use at work all day with less breaks than I should and it is faultless. I say faultless as I have never had actually thought "what if I had this instead" like I do with my keyboard regularly.

Comparing a 226BW to some others and the colours are not as rich, but for all round performance I cannot help but rate it, the 206BW is very good aswell and ideal if you plan on a dual screen setup at some point.