can this be improved

[andrewnorth98]

Hi well i've been waiting for this Motherboard for a while now, and would just like peoples opinions of if i can improve the spec, and/or reduce the price slightly with not much loss in performance, and Yes i will be overclocking

CPU Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £184.99 (£217.36)

Motherboard Abit IN9 32X-MAX WiFi nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £214.99 (£252.61)

RAM CellShock 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 PC2-8000C4 1000MHz Dual Channel Kit £239.99 (£281.99)

CPU Cooler Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler £28.99 (£34.06)

GPU BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £337.99 (£397.14)

HDD Two x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £56.99 (£66.96) = £113.98 (£133.92) in Raid 0

Soundcard Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Soundcard - Retail £75.99 (£89.29)

DVD-RW Two x Samsung SH-W183 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £19.99 (£23.49) = £39.98 (£46.98)

Thermal Paste Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99 (£7.04)

Sub Total : £1,242.89
Shipping : £9.95
Vat : £219.25
Total : £1,472.09

Will all be going in a Silverstone TJ09 with a 750 Silverstone PSU (nVidia 8800GTX SLi approved)

Now, is there anything daft i've done? any incompatable stuff? or anything OTT ?

Any input would be great, this is my 1st PC in 5 years and the 1st ever im going to build hope i dont screw it up!

Thanks, Andy

 

[masslac]

That's a HUGE bowl of kinky sex right there. Looks amazing, even though I am a Scythe Ninja fanboy.

As for the build, RTFM and you'll be fine.

 

[stickroad]

Do you know much about that motherboard, 250 odd quid that is really expensive, i mean expensive.

 

[andrewnorth98]

As for the build, RTFM and you'll be fine.

ok...

im hoping it will last a while
as to the motherboard, No i dont other than what the few reviews i've found say, im just hoping its good (anyone know anything solid about it?)

put it this way my last PC lasted 5 years, but i bought that, and its been repaired under Warranty a few times, had 3 WD hdd's fail, and 2 Ti4600 graphics fail also..

Andy

 

[stickroad]

No but other boards like the ASUS P5B-Deluxe, Intel Bad Axe 2, Abit AW9D-MAX
are all very good boards, overclock very well and a fair bit cheaper to.

The 3 boards that i have just listed have got very good reputations for clocking pretty high and being very stable

Thats a ridiculous price for a motherboard i think.

It probably wont help you overclock your CPU any higher not by that much anyway, certainly not worth the extra 80-120 pounds

If you do change the motherboard you can use that money to buy Vista

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-037-MS

 

[masslac]

No but other boards like the ASUS P5B-Deluxe, Intel Bad Axe 2, Abit AW9D-MAX
are all very good boards, overclock very well and a fair bit cheaper to.

The 3 boards that i have just listed have got very good reputations for clocking pretty high and being very stable

Thats a ridiculous price for a motherboard i think.

It probably wont help you overclock your CPU any higher not by that much anyway, certainly not worth the extra 80-120 pounds

If you do change the motherboard you can use that money to buy Vista

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SW-037-MS

Sound advice tbh. The P5B Deluxe is a fantastic board.

 

[andrewnorth98]

Ok, i think i'll likely go for a cheaper MB then, may stay with 680i because im considering going SLi at a later stage hopefully to futureproof the PC some..

the other thing i was a bit unsure about is the Ram, i've read that frequency is svery important, but is the 4-4-4-12 that much benefit over 5-5-5-15 ?
i expect the fsb to be under 500 (1000 for the ddr2) i think the cellshock PC8000C4 will allow me to run tighter timings..
Or would i be better off going with cheaper ram, and maybe getting another 2Gb earlier :s lol

Stupid computers confusing me... lol

Andy

 

[andrewnorth98]

as to windows i think i'll get XP 64bit, at least till there are actually working drivers for the 8800GTX and programs that use DX10 fully..
Andy

 

[stickroad]

That Cellshock stuff is great Memory, 4-4-4-12 timings you wont get much better than that unless you want to pay a little extra for say the Team Xtreem Ram at C3.

Cellshock for the way, thats what im getting when i build my pc anyway

Other than that mighty expensive Motherboard you have a great setup similar to what im going

 

[Alf4]

Just brought a PB5 Deluxe meself after many days of consideration. Must say that spec is a BiG PiLE oF sTeAMiNg sEx WeE!! *thats good btw