Final Spec - Looking to Order This Week

[GodMac]

Looking to order this all this week and would appreciate any final comments. Decided to go E6850 rather than Quad as it performance better without OC'ing. Any final comments before I commit:

Antec Ninehundred Gaming Case
Zalman CNPS 9700 LED Socket 754, 940, 775, 939 & AM2 CPU Cooler
Corsair 620w Modular PSU
Optiarc NEC AD7170S Serial ATA 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
3 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB OC'd GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) -
Asus P5KC (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3
OCZ Reaper 2GB (2x1GB) PC8500 1066MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.0GHz (1333FSB)

Thanks in advance.

 

[stickroad]

If your not overclocking, what's with the CPU cooler?

Get the Q6600 and clock it to 3.4GHz+, they are pretty much all reaching them kind of speeds with ease.

You also dont really need 8500 rated memory. Get this stuff, fantastic for the price.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-072-OC&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813

 

[GodMac]

I'm going e6850 because its a 1333mhz and in 18 months time when I upgrade to QX6800+ i'll be able to resell it better.

As for the memory, why so cheap It can't be that good if its as cheap as that. I went for the 8500 for the highier through put which will give better performance.

I was recommended the cooler, but if the e6850 is OK with the stock one I'll stay with that. Probably looking to OC slightly but not go mad.

 

[stickroad]

I'm going e6850 because its a 1333mhz and in 18 months time when I upgrade to QX6800+ i'll be able to resell it better.

In 18months time the Quad will actually sell better. Thats crazy that your going to upgrade to a QX6800 when you can just get the Q6600 and run it at them speeds.

As for the memory, why so cheap It can't be that good if its as cheap as that. I went for the 8500 for the highier through put which will give better performance.

Their's nothing wrong with that Memory. Its running at 800MHz which is far from slow. The Memory you picked it an overkill.

I was recommended the cooler, but if the e6850 is OK with the stock one I'll stay with that. Probably looking to OC slightly but not go mad.

If your not overclocking no need for a aftermart cooler.

But seriously, consider the Q6600, it will rwach 3.2GHz with such ease. If your weary about overclocking, it really is a fairly simple, straight forward process even for someone that has never overclocked before. Plenty of guides out their and their's always people on here that are willing to help.

 

[GodMac]

Thanks Stickroad. After two months of deliberating whether to go q6600 or e6850 I thought I'd decided but now I'm back to square one again.

From the gaming stats I've seen the Q6600 will be a better performer providing its overclocked to 3.6mhz+. But from stock the e6850 will out perform the q6600.

So if I do go for Quad, what changes would I make to my spec?

 

[yantorsen]

well in some games, like crysis (when it's out) and supcom, the quad core will beat the e6850 at stock.