Mobo & Ram advice

[marcus2704]

Ive installed Vista (not activated yet) and am wanting to upgrade my hardware.

I have -

A8N-SLI
7800GTX
2GB Corsair Ram DDR
Dell 24" W\S monitor

I am not a big PC gamer apart from the off game of Out Run C2C which runs ok for me at 1900 x 1200 res with my current setup. Therefore, I wont be needing SLI, Im more interested in having a fast, snappy OS.

Id like to use Raid for performance, but have little other specific needs other than for it to be compatible with the Intel Core Duo E6600 CPU.

Id also (I presume) need new Ram, as mine is DDR1.

Any advice would be very much appreciated

 

[semi-pro waster]

I don't know if you already have the CPU or not but the parts below are all compatible and should offer good performance, do you have a good PSU currently?

Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £114.99
(£135.11) £114.99
(£135.11)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £173.99
(£204.44) £173.99
(£204.44)
Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler (478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA755) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Sub Total : £388.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.25
Vat : £69.51
Total : £466.72

 

[marcus2704]

Hi, thanks for the reply

The CPU states its only compatible with 975X chipsets, Im not sure if the one you mentioned would be suitable in that case?

I have a Zalman flower cooler, but would the stock cooler not in itself be enough seeing as Im not going to overclock?

The Ram looks fine to me.

I have a Tagan 570W PSU, Im hoping this would be ok.

 

[semi-pro waster]

Someone somewhere has got their wires crossed if that is in accompanying documentation, the incompatability in the CPUs case is that it works on the 975X chipset but not the earlier revisions of the 975 chipset, it will work fine with the 965P, the Nforce650 and 680i as well as the R600 from ATI. So the CPU will be absolutely fine with the Asus motherboard.

The stock cooler will be fine if you aren't going to overclock but it may be a shade noisy compared to an aftermarket solution.

The Tagan is a decent PSU and you aren't significantly increasing the load on it in any case.