Hows this I7 look?

[shipinabottle]

EVGA Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard £271.39

Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - OEM £239.19

Zotac GeForce GTX 260 "55nm Maxcore" 896MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (288-OK101-000ZT) £195.49

Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD103UJ) £82.79

2x OCZ 2GB DDR3 PC3-12800C7 1600MHz Intel Extreme XMP (2x1GB) Dual Channel DDR3 (OCZ3X16002GK) £137.98

Akasa AK-967 Nero Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler (AM2/AM2+/939/LGA775/LGA1366) £31.04

i already have:

160gb Samsung drive for boot n OS install.
620w Corsair Modular PSU
Antec Super LANboy case.

any advice or suggestions?

 

[Deleted member 70857]

I think it would be better to go with Triple-Channel DDR3 if you can afford it mate.

 

[shipinabottle]

what would triple channel do for me?

 

[Deleted member 70857]

increase memory bandwidth

 

[WJA96]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-125-CR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=1301

That's only 1333MHz, but there is no additional performance to be gained by having anything faster and the extra bandwidth from the triple channel more than makes up for the loose timings.

Also - why such an expensive motherboard? I'd save £70 by going for an ASUS P6T and put the difference to a GTX285.

 

[rjk]

yes
dont get dual channel

and the evga x58 is pretty fail

it needs a bios update just to get it to cooperate

get something like a gigabyte ud5 or an asus p6t with a wider userbase [so that help is always at hand]

also - why not look at this ram

we use it in a lot of builds at ocuk

its great value and a solid performer

plus you get 6 gb rather than 4gb

 

[rjk]

Also - why such an expensive motherboard? I'd save £70 by going for an ASUS P6T and put the difference to a GTX285.

or look at a noctua cooler for getting the clock higher!

the 285 would only be beneficial to you on a monitor bigger than 22" using a bigger res than 1680*1050

 

[shipinabottle]

yeh, im running 22" monitor. with the Asus p6t, ram suggested earlier and the noctua im looking 937.

the gfx card is my concern, will it sustain me with game performance for a good time at 1680x1050? or do i wanna be looking at something bigger?

 

[lunarwolf]

listen to rikoneil he speaks the truth

 

[shipinabottle]

haha, any reason to get the deluxe p6t over the vanilla?

 

[shipinabottle]

bump* anybody know a reason to get deluxe P6T over the regular?

 

[Pred]

Just to let you know since you first posted the 920 and asus board is now even cheaper due to this week only offer!

 

[shipinabottle]

yeh im just trying to decide whether to go with the P6T deluxe or vanilla, can any one give me some advice?

 

[Ghengis]

I have a P6T Deluxe and a P6T - get the P6T - cheaper and space for a third GPU if you need to in the future......

 

[WJA96]

Unless you need the SAS controller, I can't see any reason to the P6T Deluxe over the P6T. The chipset cooling is theoretically better, but that's about it.