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Hi all ,
My first post here after a lot of reading so here goes ...
I currently have a P4 3.2ghz (unlocked Engineering Sample skt478) system with a gig of ddr400 ram, a Nvidia 8600GT and a AsRock P4VM890 mobo. It will run the Crysis demo on Medium setting (but with low shadows) at about 20fps on 1024x768 .
I bought a EVGA 8800GTsc Crysis edition thinking it would go straight in but no . After a bit more reading it turns out my mobo via chipset is not compatable , unless I flash my new gfx card to bios V.1 which I didn't want to do being a noob.
So now I have bought the following :
Product Name Price Qty Line Total
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) £64.99 1 £64.99
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £53.99 1 £53.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £101.99 1 £101.99
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99 1 £5.99
Asus DRW-1814BLT 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - Retail £19.99 1 £19.99
Western Digital Caviar SE16 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD4000AAKS) £44.99 1 £44.99
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £34.99 1 £34.99
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri): £8.95
VAT: £58.78
Order Total: £394.66
My case is a Antec Sonata III . Monitor is Asus AL1916W 1440x900 . I think once this new system is running ok I will buy a Samsung SM206BW or 226BW.
My question I guess is, what do you think and will it make a good pc ( how will crysis fair ? )
Excuse my first rant
, I'm keen to learn as much as poss , then move onto overclocking . 
My first post here after a lot of reading so here goes ...
I currently have a P4 3.2ghz (unlocked Engineering Sample skt478) system with a gig of ddr400 ram, a Nvidia 8600GT and a AsRock P4VM890 mobo. It will run the Crysis demo on Medium setting (but with low shadows) at about 20fps on 1024x768 .
I bought a EVGA 8800GTsc Crysis edition thinking it would go straight in but no . After a bit more reading it turns out my mobo via chipset is not compatable , unless I flash my new gfx card to bios V.1 which I didn't want to do being a noob.
So now I have bought the following :
Product Name Price Qty Line Total
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) £64.99 1 £64.99
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £53.99 1 £53.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £101.99 1 £101.99
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99 1 £5.99
Asus DRW-1814BLT 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - Retail £19.99 1 £19.99
Western Digital Caviar SE16 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD4000AAKS) £44.99 1 £44.99
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £34.99 1 £34.99
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri): £8.95
VAT: £58.78
Order Total: £394.66
My case is a Antec Sonata III . Monitor is Asus AL1916W 1440x900 . I think once this new system is running ok I will buy a Samsung SM206BW or 226BW.
My question I guess is, what do you think and will it make a good pc ( how will crysis fair ? )
Excuse my first rant
, I'm keen to learn as much as poss , then move onto overclocking .