is my new system up to scratch

Dangerman3 · 29 Aug 2007 at 12:19

ok after looking around and some advice of you guys a little heres what i come up with

comments please

Motherboard
Gigabyte GA P35-DS3P, iP35 Express, S 775, PCI-E x16, DDR2 1066/533/667/800, SATA II

this board came recommened by you guys for the price and the fact i dont want sli

CPU
Q6600 G0

Memory
OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit

Hard Drive
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache

PSU
Enermax Liberty 620W ELT620AWT ATX2.2 Modular

Cooling
Scythe Infinity Heatpipe CPU Cooler

semi-pro waster · 29 Aug 2007 at 12:22

All the parts specified will work together fine, what graphics card, case etc do you have? I might suggest changing the hard drive to a Western Digital AAKS drive as it should be a little bit faster but it probably won't make a huge difference.

Stelly · 29 Aug 2007 at 12:23

would change the RAM to something better... no offense, for example

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA1065) which is on offer this week

Stelly

Dangerman3 · 29 Aug 2007 at 15:45

ide love to get that memory stelly but my budget cant stretch that far unless you got 2gb's spare lol

i already have my gfx card its a 8800GTS 640MB superclocked EVGA

would going for a lower memory such as Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA804)

be better rather than the ones i choose or would it bottle neck the cpu as its not 1066mhz like the CPU

semi-pro waster · 29 Aug 2007 at 16:00

Dangerman3 said:
be better rather than the ones i choose or would it bottle neck the cpu as its not 1066mhz like the CPU

This appears to be quite a common misconception, you do not need to match the Ram speed exactly with the FSB speed. The FSB is in effect quad-pumped (my wording) so the minimum Ram you need is PC4200 (533mhz) which is a 266.5mhz actual i.e. 4x266.5=1066mhz - I'd suggest getting at least PC5300 (667mhz - 333mhz actual) as a minimum so that you have some headroom for overclocking.

I hope that clears it up a little but if not ask and I'll try to make it a bit clearer. The Crucial Ballistix PC6400 would be absolutely fine for the CPU and allows potential for overclocking as well.

Dangerman3 · 29 Aug 2007 at 19:46

yer ive always done that gone for the same ram speed as cpu cause ive heard that 1:1 with Cpu and memoery is best so theres no bottle necking or something like that.