Can I improve this rig?

PilotTait

PilotTait

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In a few weeks time (hmmm :rolleyes: Whens that pay day!) Id like to buy the following:

CPU - Intel Core 2 DUO Extreme Edition X6800 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.93GHz
GPU - BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3
RAM - GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2
Motherboard - EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
PSU - Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
DVD-ROM - Sony DDU-1615 DVD-ROM
HDD: Western Digital Caviar RE 250GB 2500YS SATA-II 16MB Cache
Sound - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Case - Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming case

1) Will everything work ok?
2) Anything I should improve? (without adding TOOOO much extra cost...) Im thinking PSU...... will that one be ok?
3) Anything I NEED/SHOULD know before building my first rig? anti-static bla bla bla (I have one of those anti-statis bands... if there of any importance)
 
Thanks for the replys guys,

semi-pro waster - Tempted to go for that CPU you suggested... I dont want to spend to much upgrading things like the CPU in the near future (about 2 years, i dont feel the need to keep upgrading, one upgrade like now will do for a few years :) ). Im guesing the quad will be really good for flight simulator? (running many seperate applications at the same time: the sim, sim weather, filght sim online connection tool, media player/music, firefox, messenger and a few others come into mind)

The only upgrading I can see doing in that time is say GFX and RAM, however, even then, Iv made my current card (6600) last for a LONG time.


You said not much is really coded for the quat yet. Any ideas when that'll start cominginto practice?
 
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lol yeah... but now quad core is coming on the scene i imagine they will focus on quad core which will aid to the duo core CPU's... and like i said, 2 years before id even think on upgrading another CPU so it will be in action then, right?
 
Thanks ;) .

Think ill go for the quad though. Might as well, only £30 more and will last longer (i hope!!!), and if not, well.... thats a little extra power that might come in handy later.
 
Anyone recommend a good CPU cooler?

Also, will that rig be cool enough? got some nice fans on the case, 2 on the front, opne on the back and one big one on the top! and the GFX card + CPU cooler.... should be cool enough right...?
 
Thanks. Thought it might be, evil looking cooler that is! :D

One other thing i also thought about,
Is it pritty much plug and play (with the exeption to instaling windows, gfx drivers and the other disks ill get with various parts) ??? Or will there be configuring things like.... i dont know..... dual channel ram/other ram settings? quad core runnings of the CPU? and that kind of thing?
 
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