Close to ordering this lot

CSA · 6 May 2007 at 20:46

In the next week or two im going to order my upgrade,im looking at C2D hopefully overclocking to around 3ghz or a tad more,its for a gaming rig thats going to be running quake wars and maybe crysis, gaming at 1440x900 resolution so will that 320Mb GTS be ok at that res ?

Also im wondering if my antec heo 500watt psu will be enough for this upgrade ?

OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit

Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

thoughts/suggestions ?

cheers

semi-pro waster · 6 May 2007 at 20:54

It looks good, I might suggest an aftermarket cooler though, just pick one from - Noctua NH-U12F, Scythe Ninja, Tuniq Tower. Your PSU should be fine, is it ATX 2.0 compliant? If not you may need adapters.

tsj · 6 May 2007 at 20:55

Looks fine

stinka · 6 May 2007 at 20:56

id swap ram for Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400 as my geil dosnt clock to well and this stuff suposedly clocks better

also id swap the hdd for a Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 320GB SATA-II 8MB

Cupra · 6 May 2007 at 20:57

keep the hard drive its faster than the deskstar and there silent too the balistix ram is better tho

tsj · 6 May 2007 at 20:59

stinka said:
id swap ram for Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400 as my geil dosnt clock to well and this stuff soposedly clocks better

also id swap the hdd for a Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 320GB SATA-II 8MB

Umm why would you swap the HD?

stinka · 6 May 2007 at 20:59

paul_64l said:
keep the hard drive its faster than the deskstar and there silent too the balistix ram is better tho

i thought the deskstar was quicker :confused:

Jaffa_Cake · 6 May 2007 at 21:00

stinka said:
my geil dosnt clock to well and this stuff soposedly clocks better

I have 2gb of Giel PC6400 clocked to 930MHz. Not bad for the price.

tsj · 6 May 2007 at 21:01

stinka said:
i thought the deskstar was quicker

The new ones are

not the one you linked to

I'd go for the WD he has mentioned or the Seagate 7200.10.

stickroad · 6 May 2007 at 21:02

Why would you get a 8MB chache hard drive when you can get a Seagate 16mb cache cheaper?

stinka · 6 May 2007 at 21:03

ok sorry im talking carp

i did mean the new hitachi's

if there expensive then i would recommend the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB as i have 2 of these in raid 0 and there super fast, allways first into the chopper on bf2142

LoadsaMoney · 6 May 2007 at 21:23

Id wait till those games are out before getting a card for them, ppl are saying that 320mb wont be enough for all those higher res textures, and i wouldn't buy an 8 series for Dx10 anyway as its not here yet, buy it for the now, Dx9, the 8 series are already 6 months old, thats a helluva long time in graphics cards, they are already out of date and theres zero Dx10 games, and by the time those games appear, or any Dx10 games for that matter, the 8800's will be out of production as the next lot of faster/better Dx10 cards will be here.

If you want card for those games, dont get the slowest cards you can get for them, and thats all of Nvidia's range of cards, and all of ATi's new range of cards which are due next week.

Be best of getting the 320mb GTS for the now seen as they are cheap, and then upgrading again when those games start to appear.