Check my gaming desktop spec before I buy please :)

[Roadshowuk]

I am at the point of replacing my three year old dtr notebook and have decided that this time around I will become deskbound again. I plan on making the machine myself and from having a scoot around this site have picked out the following. I am hoping you guys can tell me how I can achieve a better bang for my buck and of course if I have missed out anything vital or put together anything incompatible/nonsensical. The goal of the machine is three years gaming before I have to grind my teeth lowering the settings on all the games I play (mostly mmo's).

The Dell monitor is a late addition and I am still umming and ahhing over whether or not to opt for Viewsonics 28incher.

Coolermaster Real Power 1000w Modular Power Supply £134.99 (£158.61)

Asus DRW-2014L1T 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black/Silver) - Retail £20.99 (£24.66)

Lian Li PC-A71B Aluminium Tower Case - Black £144.99 (£170.36)

2x OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £409.98 (£481.72)

Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780i (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £159.99 (£187.99)

Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9650 "LGA775 Yorkfield" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) £584.99 (£687.36)

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

2x Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) £109.98 (£129.22)

G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-8000C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ) £69.99 (£82.24)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series 7.1 Sound Card - Retail £71.99 (£84.59)

Akasa AK-ICR-01A Internal Card Reader £9.99 (£11.74)

Akasa AK-925 Revo CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £37.99 (£44.64)

Dell Ultrasharp 2707WFP 27" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Arctic Silver £499.99
(£587.49)

£2,261.85
£2,657.67 inc VAT

Many thanks for any (useful) advice

 

[Space Monkey]

I've spec'd a single GFX card as SLI and CF seem imho to be a waste of money against the returns you'll get!

Some things I didnt have a preference on so I've left them the same as your selection.

You can overclock the Q6600 quad CPU to 3GHZ easy so you will save a few hundred pounds! Have also listed a better CPU cooler for you

Hope some of this helps?


Peace

 

[Roadshowuk]

Many thanks for the advice

 

[DirtyJester]

Donts forget the OS ....

 

[Roadshowuk]

LoL thanks. I was going to try 64bit Vista, although I had originally intended to stick with xp until 2009 and the next edition of Windows bloatware.

 

[madmanrizzla]

I would stick with XP i have just tried an install of Vista 64 bit, and my rig just wern't stable!!!