aries2580 spec me thread xD

aries2580 · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:06

Hey and sorry for the confusion.

I originally was just going to get the cheapest card, mobo and case.
But the O/C bug has hit me again!

Here are the parts I'm looking for.

Motherboard - I have narrowed it down to a few motherboards. One, Two and three. Of if you could suggest anything else? TBH i would love to go DDR3 and get a matching mobo but the prices are a bit high... And the blackops doesn't play nice with OCZ DDR3 memory

RAM ATM i own 4GB of DDR2 Tracer memory (800MHz CL4)
If i was to keep this. I would like to get it down to CL3 if at all possible.

PSU Need something quiet and able to power and overclocked quad and support future upgrades. I was thinking the be quiet 650W?

GFX CARD I have my heart set on the xFx 4870 xXx 1GB edition

CASE Silverstone Fortress was what I had in mind...

SOUND CARD I know nothing about sound cards... so a little help would be much appreciated!

I like the look of the asus sonar. But i know looks are nothing lol

*parts i currently own*
Q6600
RAM (listed above)
Hard Disk
1680x1050 monitor

USES Overclocking, Gaming, Programming, Level Design, Word processing and listening to some music through headphones

Thanks all

icey_haj · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:28

If you want overclock that Q6600, then the biostar is a fanastic overclocker. Of course you'll need something to cool that CPU, that's where the Coolermaster V8 comes in. The Asus Xonar range are very good sound cards, more geared towards music, but still very good in games as well.

aries2580 · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:32

Hey Icey Haj and thanks.

Holy crap thats cpu cooler is bigger than my face... lol

So the 650W will be more than enough?

You suggested the sapphire card. But the xFx one is slightly more expensive and higher clocked no?

Thanks so much for the reply. *legend*

RJC · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:37

The 650w will be more than enough

icey_haj · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:41

Yeah 650W will be more then enough.

The XFX XXX is £18 more for a faster clock, why pay that for something that you can do yourself?

aries2580 · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:44

lol true but surely i'll have to use software to do that?

Im just not so keen on software OC'ing. *bad experience with an old 9800GTX*

icey_haj · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:47

aries2580 said:
lol true but surely i'll have to use software to do that?

Im just not so keen on software OC'ing. *bad experience with an old 9800GTX*

I think the Sapphire has a better cooler as well. I would definitely go for that.
No point paying £18 more for a few more frames extra performance.

There's plenty of people on this forum willing to help you overclock.

aries2580 · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:47

And good about the 650!

aries2580 · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:51

Ok one last thing

Headphone for the sound card.
I have is Sennheiser CX300-B Earbuds, which do fine for music. But if im splashing out on a sound card... well

Any suggestions?

icey_haj · 5 Apr 2009 at 17:54

aries2580 said:
Ok one last thing

Headphone for the sound card.
I have is Sennheiser CX300-B Earbuds, which do fine for music. But if im splashing out on a sound card... well

Any suggestions?

Hmm...not too sure on that.

I've got these Fatal1ty and they're pretty good tbh.

aries2580 · 5 Apr 2009 at 18:01

Sounds good. But hey thanks for the replies

aries2580 · 5 Apr 2009 at 21:33

How would these two items work together -

Motherboard

and

RAM

shinester184 · 5 Apr 2009 at 23:35

I'm guessing they'll be ok.

aries2580 *spec me thread* xD

aries2580 spec me thread xD