New build for my 8800GTsc

[Hypersonix]

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 .

 

[closeratio]

I think that'd go great, and you should be able to clock that cpu up to and past 3Ghz with relative ease. I'm using the same sort of setup with a cpu which is clocked just under a gigahert faster (which really doesn't matter that much in games tbh), same gfx and same amount of RAM, and crysis run at at least 25fps on all high at 1280*1024. Normal running around and standard firefights are at about just over 30, and drop lower when stuff starts getting more intense. And because your 8800 is superclocked, it should run slightly better, and it should also run better due to the fact that your resolution also involves slightly less pixels than mine

*Edit*: I've seen that the cpu cooler you've ordered doesn't come with a fan, which is pretty much a bad thing. It's probably in your best interests to get a cheap 120mm fan or use a spare one that you might have lying around, as they fit on that heatsink and cool it so much better.

 

[Hypersonix]

Great news ! and thanks for the quick and friendly reply .

I have a spare 120mm fan but may buy another as in my case I only have one 120mm on low and none on my ninja cooler on the P4 3.2 . That cpu still runs cool on the heatsink alone clocked to 3.4 . It's a beefy cpu , just a shame the 8800GT wouldn't run in my current system .

Anyway , on to the new system