As I haven't built a machine in a few years, I've been out of the loop of all the latest hardware, but I've done a lot of research over the past couple months and come to the following config. It's going to be used with a Dell 2407 monitor at its native rez of 1920x1200 and hopefully it's going to last me a few years.
When the next round of boards for the conroe come out, I'm going to move to possibly an nforce590 for quad sli, but more likely to something else ready for Vista and a DX10 card next year.
My old rig is pretty much dead, so it's stopped me being able to wait for the new round of boards out in a month or two and simply getting one of them.
I know the arguments for and against the E6600 vs E6700, and the ATI vs nVidia, and also that the PhysX processor is pretty much unproven at the moment; but...
I basically need a board as a stopgap to be resold later, that will fit the 7950GX2 and the PhysX card, and I need the memory to work with it. Alas, I'm a DDR2 noob, and if anyone who knows more than me, which shouldn't be hard, could spec me alternatives to the setup listed below with the reason why, that'd be great, as I see the Gigabyte boards are having some dodgy memory issues.
edit: Just thought, is 1066 memory worth buying if I'm going to upgrade the board later on?
Spec...
Core
Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.67GHz (1066FSB)
*Gigabyte GA_965P_DQ6 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard*?
*Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)*?
Box
Lian-Li PC V1000 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower (No PSU)
Tagan TG900-U95 900W ATX2.01 Turbojet Quad SLi Silent PSU
PCIE
EVGA GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB GDDR3 HDTV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition
Asus Ageia PhysX Accelerator
SATA
Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache
Samsung SH-W163 16x16 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
~Rait
When the next round of boards for the conroe come out, I'm going to move to possibly an nforce590 for quad sli, but more likely to something else ready for Vista and a DX10 card next year.
My old rig is pretty much dead, so it's stopped me being able to wait for the new round of boards out in a month or two and simply getting one of them.
I know the arguments for and against the E6600 vs E6700, and the ATI vs nVidia, and also that the PhysX processor is pretty much unproven at the moment; but...
I basically need a board as a stopgap to be resold later, that will fit the 7950GX2 and the PhysX card, and I need the memory to work with it. Alas, I'm a DDR2 noob, and if anyone who knows more than me, which shouldn't be hard, could spec me alternatives to the setup listed below with the reason why, that'd be great, as I see the Gigabyte boards are having some dodgy memory issues.
edit: Just thought, is 1066 memory worth buying if I'm going to upgrade the board later on?
Spec...
Core
Intel Core 2 DUO E6700 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.67GHz (1066FSB)
*Gigabyte GA_965P_DQ6 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard*?
*Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB)*?
Box
Lian-Li PC V1000 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower (No PSU)
Tagan TG900-U95 900W ATX2.01 Turbojet Quad SLi Silent PSU
PCIE
EVGA GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB GDDR3 HDTV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS Edition
Asus Ageia PhysX Accelerator
SATA
Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache
Samsung SH-W163 16x16 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black)
~Rait
