Final Spec Check - comments please!

[GUB]

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail - £145.69

Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £76.36

Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) - £70.49

Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) - £38.76

Noctua NF-S12 800RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin - £14.09

Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail - £152.74

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio 7.1 Sound Card - OEM (PCI-Express) (30SB082000000) - £29.36

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) - £88.11

Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD2500AAKS) x2 - £77.52

Sony NEC Optiarc AD-7201S 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM - £18.79

Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case - £77.54

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 64-Bit - OEM (66I-01939) - £70.49

Jus to check that GFX card would be moe than sufficient to play FPS games at 1280v1024 on a 19" screen? Any other comments gratefully received.

Thanks!

 

[melbourne720]

Looks really good, that graphics card would be fine for 1280 x 1024 (more than fine).

To fine tune it I would use Nexus/Sharkoon fans instead of Noctua, and Samsung F1 drives are the fastest SATA drives at the moment, get the 334 platter ones (334, 660 or 1TB drives).

I also preferred the Tuniq Tower to the 120, but it comes down to personal preference. I found the Tuniq much easier to fit.

 

[Greebo]

The only thing I would change is the corsair memory to cas4. It can be had for a £2 premium but ocuk still not selling them yet

Worth it for the £2 since they will run at 400Mhz at 4-4-4-12 and even 450+ speeds at the same tight timings.

I have mine running at 1066 atm at 5-5-5-12 but I just slacked off the timings to get my max overclock and I haven't tried tightening them up yet to see how much better they will go.

Apart from that, ditto the comment about the Samsung hard drives, they are awesome and well worth having.

And since the basic parts of your system is the same as mine, you will have no problems running at 1280 x 1024. Even on crysis benchmark at with everything on high I get 49 fps average.

 

[GUB]

Would I be better off spending the extra on a retail vista do you think?

 

[Greebo]

Would I be better off spending the extra on a retail vista do you think?

The difference between oam and retail is that you get no support with oem. So depends if you ever plan to use microsoft support really.

Personally i find I get the answers quicker searching the internet so went with the oem vista ultimate (only got the ultimate cause I could get it for £75 oem )

 

[lunarwolf]

Would I be better off spending the extra on a retail vista do you think?

I got retail version, since if you change motherboard then you will need a new OEM vista. As I am more likely going to get a new mobo before a new OS I chose retail.