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amyparr

amyparr

amyparr

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Hi guys, am throwing together a machine for gaming primarily, I want something high-end, that won't bugger up.

Could you tell me if the below config would actually work, and if it would, are there any parts which you would change?



Case: Coolermaster WaveMaster Black Aluminium Case (w/o PSU)/ Coolermaster CM Stacker 832 Black (RC-832) - No Psu -

Motherboard: EVGA nForce 680i SLi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (122-CK-NF68-A1)

Processor: QX6850 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 3.00GHz

Graphics card: EVGA 8800 Ultra 768MB DDR3 Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Card (I think!)

Memory: Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500/1066MHz XMS2 Dominator Memory CL 5-5-5-15

Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor X 150GB WD1500AHFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache

Powersupply: Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU

DVD: HP DVD940i 18x SuperMulti DVD



Would the motherboard be better as an ASUS Striker Extreme? (I've heard mixed reviews about it, with bad overclocking and bios sometimes)

Is there anything that I could change that would result in a decent speed increase (I'm thinking memory, perhaps?)

Would you go for the wavemaster case or the stacker? (is the stacker worth the extra £50?)

I value your views, let me know.

Amy
 
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You need a P35 chipset motherboard, but none of them currently support SLi.

Edit: You've also failed to include a graphics card, so you won't be gaming on that ;)

What size monitor do you have? Go for the 8800GTS 320MB/640MB depending on monitor size and resolution, or the GTX if you can afford it.
 
You'd need a graphics card!

:Edit: Didn't realise YOU were the girl! Make sure you paint the case nice and pink :)
 
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Whats a girl??

WHAT????

ON THE INTERNET??

Joking ;)

Well youll need a graphics card, and with the budget youve got it would most likely be an 8800GTX of some kind :D
 
Two hard drives essential.

The second drive should be use for temp dirs, caches, pagefile and backups storage.

Doesn't have to be anything fancy - just a cheap 80gb.

If you buy a seagate* drive you will be able to use seagate (acronis) discwizard backup software for free. It is awesome. It's like Ghost but does backups on the fly so you don't need to reboot to take partion images.

*I don't know if other manufs. supply free image software.
 
Oh no, Micro$haft man says you need two hard drives. Utter BS. Only buy a second if you really want it ;)
 
Personally I would save on the CPU and get an E6600 and put the extra money towards a nice monitor to run along side your 8800 ;)
 
I wouldn't get the wavemaster, it only has 80mm fans so will be a little noisy and not keep your stuff quite as cool as it'd like to be.
 
I would also recommend an aftermarket cooler, seeing as you are going for the QX6850 it would run quite hot if you decide to overclock (not hard at all to overclock).

with some advice of these boards, but aye give us a budget and what components you need and peripherals, monitors and we will see what you can get, already i can see though your budget is abnormally huge ^_^.
 
I dont think there is anything wrong wtih 80mm fans. Prior to my new case I had 2x 80mm 12db papst and 2x 80mm 14db acoustifans, with my passive 6600gt I couldn't hear my PC barely at all and my idle temps were low 30's for overclocked P4 northwood (6600gt was 58c).
 
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I dont think there is anything wrong wtih 80mm fans. Prior to my new case I had 2x 80mm 12db papst and 2x 80mm 14db acoustifans, with my passive 6600gt I couldn't hear my PC barely at all and my idle temps were low 30's for overclocked P4 northwood (6600gt was 58c).
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They dont shift as much air as a 120mm fan, 120mm fans a a lot quieter.

today its all about noise level and cfm (cubic feet per min) being 120mm fans can shift a lot more cfm than an 80mm fan can, resulting in better cooled components if the case layout is niec and their is no dangling wires blocking intake airflow.
 
So you think it would be better to get the stacker because of the fans? Price isn't an issue, I earn my own money and don't mind blowing it on a top end machine. :D

Anything else wrong with it? lol
 
amyparr said:
So you think it would be better to get the stacker because of the fans? Price isn't an issue, I earn my own money and don't mind blowing it on a top end machine. :D

Anything else wrong with it? lol
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if money isnt an issuea i would go for.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-028-LL&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=

its a huge case though, if you wanted smaller id get

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-070-AN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=160
 
Hmm, don't like that silver one but the second antec looks quite good, but would it be big enough?

Ok, so nobody can see any obvious reason why that config shouldn't work? At the most I would be looking at spending 2k or under, although I don't wanna just buy expensive crap that makes no difference to performance.
 
I am looking at buying a P182 aswell, check out the following video to give you a good idea of what this case is like.


Although this video shows the P180 they are not much different.
 
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I don't wanna just buy expensive crap that makes no difference to performance.
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Then don't get quad core now. Get a decent overclockable Core 2 Duo for around £200 and upgrade to quad later when they're are half the price they are now.
 
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