Comments appreciated on the following specs

stuartmanton · 4 Aug 2006 at 22:33

Looking at ordering a new rig over the next few days. After scanning the forums I am thinking of the following: -

CP-128-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)
£214.95 £214.95
MB-152-AS Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-152-AS)
£137.95 £137.95
MY-014-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR2 NR PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBNR) (MY-014-GS)
£106.95 £106.95
CA-038-LL Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-038-LL)
£47.95 £47.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)
£42.50 £85.00
AC-000-AC Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
£5.50 £5.50
GX-053-HT HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT)
£203.95 £203.95

Any thoughts on the above would be gratefully received. The only other question I have is the PSU. I already have a Akasa Ultra Quiet 460W which is about a year old. I'm hoping will this be enough for the new rig but should I be looking to at 600w PSU. If so any recommendations. The Seasonic seems to be popular.

stuartmanton · 4 Aug 2006 at 23:04

thanks for the suggestions.

Is there any particular flavour of the Corasir RAM you would recommend? What works good with the Gigabyte mobo?

stuartmanton · 4 Aug 2006 at 23:12

No real budget, just trying to keep the costs down a bit as the missus wants a 24" wide-screen monitor (that I will obviously plug into :-)

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So revised specs are

CP-128-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN)
£214.95 £214.95
CA-038-LL Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-038-LL)
£47.95 £47.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)
£42.50 £85.00
AC-000-AC Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) (AC-000-AC)
£5.50 £5.50
GX-053-HT HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT)
£203.95 £203.95
MB-062-GI Gigabyte GA_965P_DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-062-GI)
£104.95 £104.95
MY-092-CS Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB) (MY-092-CS)
£124.95 £124.95

Looking sexy now?

stuartmanton · 4 Aug 2006 at 23:22

Thanks for all your help. After a couple more bottles of Stella I will probably be confident enough to place the order

stuartmanton · 4 Aug 2006 at 23:34

Adnams would be better, would even settle for some Green King IPA but alas, only Stella in the fridge.

One other thing. Do you happen to know if the Gigabyte boards come with any SATA cables. OC is out of stock of the bog standard cables and I am not really interested in the fancy flashing, lighty ones

stuartmanton · 5 Aug 2006 at 00:09

Any ideas what the stock cooler are like with the retail E6600? I have a Zalman CNPS7000B sitting on top of my Athlon Xp 2200+ at the moment. It would be nice to have something as quiet.

stuartmanton · 5 Aug 2006 at 00:50

Have placed the order now so just have to sit back and wait for the big box of goodies to arrive. Haven't bothered with another heatsink and fan at the mo. Will wait and see what the bundled one sounds like. If it sounds too loud I will get another.