Hows this rig for general gaming

tomanders91 · 30 Nov 2006 at 21:55

how would you say this rig is for general gaming, all of its £784

Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB5300DC)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 200GB ST3200820AS SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM

NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming case

Akasa AK-P050FG8-BKUK 500W Green Power 80+

DFI Infinity 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

bare in mind im 15 and on a tight budget, this should be ok and work together ok? ive got the monitor and keyboard so im ok there, and some of them parts are OEM, but nothing important like cpu and motherboard, that should be ok right? and that case has sufficent cooling?

thanks

ps: how much better performance do u get from overclocking? and is it easy to do?

CarlD · 30 Nov 2006 at 22:14

Well if you are going to overclock then get the e6300..

you'll save a few pennies

Beginners Guide to Overclocking:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612922

Macabre · 30 Nov 2006 at 22:15

Seems fine to me. Check out the power supply I have 520W OCZ, it is very good, and I think it costs a little less then the one you have on your list.

Antec 900 is sufficient by far for cooling.

Overclocking gives you better performance at the sacrafice of more heat etc, but with that case you won't have a problem.

semi-pro waster · 30 Nov 2006 at 22:16

I'd suggest the Gigabyte DS3 instead of the DFI as it should be able to reach higher FSB speeds than the DFI which is based on the 975 chipset, the money freed up ought to allow you to get a better cooler, maybe an Arctic Freezer 7. The case appears to come with 4 fans so it should be adequately cooled certainly. Other than that it looks fine.

ReeceKB · 30 Nov 2006 at 22:17

Looks gd to me but as said get an E6300 and overclock and maybe is you can get pc2 6400 ram rather than 5300.

tomanders91 · 30 Nov 2006 at 22:35

thank you very much for the suggestions, going to do all i can to save money so the cheaper processor may be good.

and this stuff is all highly upgradeably so mid next year if i wanna get a DX10 card and a new PSU i can right?

Macabre · 30 Nov 2006 at 23:03

tomanders91 said:
thank you very much for the suggestions, going to do all i can to save money so the cheaper processor may be good. and this stuff is all highly upgradeably so mid next year if i wanna get a DX10 card and a new PSU i can right?

Yes, most demanding thing for games is graphics and ram, cpu yes but the cpu lasts for a long time, people run 3800+ with 7900's fine, ram would be fine too for a long time, games are starting to demand 2GB of RAM to run on the highest settings smooth, so that should be fine for another year or more.

CHUDS · 30 Nov 2006 at 23:03

should do