My Spec

[Senor-Cojones]

Hi guys,

I posted my spec a few weeks ago, its now been refined and I aim to purchase it on Monday, my birthday, 17th of september

Would like you knowledgeable people to have a look over it and tell me if theres anything ive missed out, might need, or should reconsider:

Linksys WMP55AG 54Mbps Dual-Band Wireless Desktop PCI Network Adapter £7.99
(£9.39)
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £379.99
(£446.49)
SpeedLink Medusa SL-8793 5.1 ProGamer Edition £36.99
(£43.46)
Razer Copperhead Anarchy Red 2000dpi High Precision Gaming Mouse - Retail £34.99
(£41.11)
Everglide Titan Monster Gaming Mat £11.30
(£13.28)
Saitek Eclipse 2 Illuminated Keyboard - Blue/Red/Purple £26.99
(£31.71)
Microsoft Xbox 360 Controller (XP/Vista Compatible) (52A-00002) £18.99
(£22.31)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £79.99
(£93.99)
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black) £69.99
(£82.24)
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04)
Noctua NF-S12 1200RPM 120mm Silent Case Fan - 3 Pin £11.99
(£14.09)
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £38.99
(£45.81)
Samsung SH-S183ABEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £14.99
(£17.61)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 5000AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £63.99
(£75.19)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - OEM £254.99
(£299.61)
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ) £144.99
(£170.36)
Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £114.99
(£135.11)
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £149.99
(£176.24)
Sub Total : £1,468.13
Total : £1,754.37



Aiming to keep the whole system at around that price (im a student and my loan is paying for most of it...)

Main aims are:
To play the ut/bioshock/etc as well as source games
To be quiet and sleek (ie near silent and no bright blue leds)
To allow me to use intensive applications such as maya/max/photoshop

At xmas i intend to upgrade the cooling further, add in a soundcard and upgrade the ram to 8gb (seems overkill, but 3ds max/high poly rendering might need it/want an e-peen), and also look into getting a nice sound system and chair.

Is it all good guys? Will be getting my mate to drive me to ocuk on monday if it is

Cojones

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Looks great.

 

[Cupra]

not a bad spec what is it for and ill see if money could be better spent

 

[Yesam]

Fantastic system, future upgrade as you said could be to add a sound card.

It should overclock pretty well too!

 

[Senor-Cojones]

Thanx guys

Basically I want it for gaming , id like it to run the latest and future releases, as well as old games, in some form or another (as long as its playable ill be happy tbh(running css in med and only getting 40-50 fps atm)), and I also need it for uni work- im a games design student meaning ill use it for high poly modelling in max/maya, photoshop, premiere, source/unrealed etc.

Id like it to be fairly future proof- but upgrades for cooling/sound/hdd/9800 (when released) will be bought on the next part of my loan.

Also forgot to mention- i dont need xp/vista as my uni is part of the msdn thing and i get os/programming software/etc for free.

Not amazingly bothered about overclocking at the minute, but i will have a fiddle with that as soon as im comfortable

cheers
Cojones

 

[Teaf]

Looks a superb system

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99
(£7.04)

Get MX-1! The saving is a full fish supper, maybe 2!

 

[Senor-Cojones]

is there any performance difference in the thermal materials? i just assumed that AS5 was the best....

 

[melbourne720]

I'd be wary of the HC version of the dell, lots of people are getting ghosting with that monitor. I'd get the Non-HC version personally.

Those Antec cases are quiet, I have a P180 and the sound proofing is better than any other case I've tried.

 

[stickroad]

PERFECT

 

[Senor-Cojones]

thanx stickroad

melbourne720- do you have experience of the dell hc? or a link to where I can find that info? still.. Ill consider the non-HC version... I suppose it would save me a few quid. I hope the sound proofing is good- Im looking at running all fans on the lowest possible, which is hopefully enough airflow to keep everything cool and be as quiet as possible!

 

[melbourne720]

I don't have either, but there are some big threads on dell support and here

Here is the thread:-

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17775088

And also go to TFT central (or ask baddass on here who runs it).

 

[Senor-Cojones]

cheers for that link, looks like its another sale for the non-hc version!

I think im pretty much ready to be everything now- just hope its all in stock on monday!