£1500 gaming system specs

mattyfez

mattyfez

mattyfez

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Hi all,

Im going to be building my first system sometime in the next 6 months, i have a bit of experience upgrading graphics, ram and psu.
and know a little about current hardware and also whats in the pipeline.

I'm wanting to build a future proof (lol) base system, my current sys is an a64 3400+, agp oc xfx 7800gs, 2 gig corsair value ram, 600w jeantech psu, which runs really well, but wont run latest games without sacrifice.

peripherals are not an issue, i have a good 22" monitor, mouse etc.


im thinking of the following specs, but im concerned about wether the case is big enough for the cpu cooler, and i want to go quad-core, so ive just thrown that cpu in as an example.


also the ram, which i gather is good for clocking, as is the MoBo?
i would like to have some headroom for mesing about, ive never o0verclocked before so i want a versitile set-up, hence why i chose the ddr2/3 MoBo

the hard drives, im undecided, i want to have one small raid0 array for OS+apps/games and either a second raid0 or two individual backups for media etc...dunno yet

and i want it to be quiet, lol

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Bump, i messed up the pic of the specs, ive resized it, hopefully its readable now lol

any comments/advice are much appreciated!
thanks
 
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Gaming rig and watercooling?


Maybe change the case to an Akasa Eclipse 62 so you have more room and it can fit in your budget.

The 1Tb hard drive is blisteringly fast. Faster than a WD Raptor X in some cases other wise it is right up next to it.

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hmmmmmm...

interesting ideas, i dont feel confident enough to go the water cooling route,
so im gonna leave that out, i just want to do a nice safe (but decent)OC on the ram and cpu

also onboard sound is fine for me....my current sound is ok for me, so i dont wanna waste cash on a dedicated sound card, will probably run a 2.1 system, or feed the audio out's into my hi-fi
(which consits of 4.1 tannoy M1 speakers, paradigm subwoofer and kenwood stack)

ive got a real prob finding cases that i like also, the only decent looking ones ive seen cost more than i think they are worth...the case is a work in progress, theres some decent(ish) looking ones in pc world...


revised spec...till ponderin the HDD's, maybe 2 cheap 500's are the way to go.

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I'm not an expert but I don't think the P35T-DQ6 will take DDR2. If you want a similar board but the ability to take DDR2 I believe you want the P35C. If you don't care about DDR3 then other P35 board would be fine P35-DQ6 etc. I’d check Gigabytes website to confirm.

DDR3 appears to provide no real benefits at present and the cost is very high.

Thanks

Graeme
 
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