Check my spec please

Nikumba

Nikumba

Nikumba

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Hi,

Further to my PC died thread, specced up a new box, now its been a long time since I have built a full size PC as I have been using Shuttles for the last 4 years or so.

So will what I have all work together and happily work on Vista 64-Bit?

More than happy to take advice on changes or additions:

Akasa Eclipse 62 Aluminium Case - No PSU £79.99 (£93.99)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £169.99 (£199.74)
DFI Infinity 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £74.99 (£88.11)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC) £84.99 (£99.86)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £234.99 (£276.11)
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99 (£70.49)
Akasa Serial ATA 45cm DAYGLO Blue Data Cable £5.98 (£7.02)
Akasa Rounded Ultra ATA133/100/66 IDE Cable (0.9m) - Metal Braided £6.99 (£8.21)

Total (inc VAT & Del) : £856.41

Cheers

Kimbie
 
Im unlikely to overclock tbh been there done that. If i needed more performance id just chuck another 8800 in or a bigger chip.

I will look at the mobo you mention, that is the bit where i get a bit lost as i have not kept pace with new mobo tech so other than making sure it has enough ports on it I couldnt tell what was goot and what was bad, in fact my last full size mobo was an abit K7R-A so many years ago

Cheers

Kimbie
 
From worst to best I'd go for this (I don't like going for nVidia chipset mobos, some reason I don't like the idea of a graphics card manu having bits on my mobo :confused: lol)

They're all 965P chipset motherboards - best is at the bottom of the list, "worst" at the top, although they're all good

Gigabyte S3
Gigabyte DS3
Asus P5B
Asus P5B-E Plus
Gigabyte DS4
Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi
Gigabyte DQ6

Which, funnily enough, is also the order of price (low to high). So you do get what you pay for :p

Gigabyte has better on board sound than Asus, IMO
 
"The 975 is older, but higher end, and the 965 is newer, but designed to be the midrange chipset. The 975 does not have native DDR2 800MHZ support. The newer boards have it, but its more of a overclock than native support. Both will support Kentsfield. The 965 has a better memory subsystem so you get better memory performance, the ICH8 gives lower CPU usage."[quotes from a forum discussion]

It's a bit of a toss-up beween the two, tbh. Doesn't really seem to be real benefits either way.
 
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Ok, will look at some reviews of the 2 chipsets. But I dont think it will be an issue since I am unlikeky to need DDR2 800Mhz support

Kimbie
 
If they're bleeding-edge reviews, they might have revied them before the 965P BIOS's were any good. IIRC the 965P BIOS's were dodgy at first, but have been ironed out now. So they would've been comparing motherboards with a new "un-matured, complete with bugs" 965P bios to a "matured, bus ironed out" 975 bios :p
 
So out of that list which would you go for if it was just a board to put a Core2, 8800 and ram into with no need to overclock etc?

Looking at the gigabyte boards they all seem to have the same features on them

Kimbie
 
Nikumba said:
So out of that list which would you go for if it was just a board to put a Core2, 8800 and ram into with no need to overclock etc?

Looking at the gigabyte boards they all seem to have the same features on them

Kimbie
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I'd go for the DS4 :)
 
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