New Gaming rig help please :-)

Goody

Goody

Goody

Associate
Joined
8 Nov 2005
Posts
19
Hi,

Building a new pc mainly for games, company of heroes, call of duty 4 and a few others what do you tihnk of this rig and any improvements or things you would change?

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 80GB ATA-100 2MB Cache - OEM (ST380215A) £25.99
(£30.54) £51.98
(£61.08)
Thermaltake BigTyp 120 VX CPU Cooler (Socket 754/939/940/AM2/LGA755) £29.99
(£35.24) £29.99
(£35.24)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £107.99
(£126.89) £107.99
(£126.89)
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard £66.99
(£78.71) £66.99
(£78.71)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Gigabyte GeForce 8800 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GV-NX88T256H) £114.99
(£135.11) £114.99
(£135.11)
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case with Free Call of Juarez Game £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £74.99
(£88.11) £74.99
(£88.11)

Totals out at 660 prolly about as much as i can spend but could stretch a little bit further.

cheers
 
I'd change the hard drive(s) to SATA models, the cabling is neater and the burst rates are a little faster.

Are you planning on overclocking? It does rather look like it, in which case I'd re-jig the system overall to create a more balanced option. This is almost exactly the same price but includes 4gb of good Ram and a graphics card with double the Ram.

Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £72.99
(£85.76) £72.99
(£85.76)
OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Reaper HPC Enhanced Bandwidth Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR800C44GK) £64.99
(£76.36) £64.99
(£76.36)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £74.99
(£88.11) £74.99
(£88.11)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £144.99
(£170.36) £144.99
(£170.36)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) - Retail £51.99
(£61.09) £51.99
(£61.09)
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775) £27.99
(£32.89) £27.99
(£32.89)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (ST380815AS) £25.99
(£30.54) £51.98
(£61.08)
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case with Free Call of Juarez Game £59.99
(£70.49) £59.99
(£70.49)
Sub Total : £549.91
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £12.95
VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £98.50
Total : £661.36

//edit, do you already have an optical drive? If not then buy the HX520w instead and use the money saved to buy one.
 
Yeh already got an optical drive, aye looks good, tbh im proablly not gonna overclock it, is there any components that i could change to make it cheaper if im not gonna overclock?

thanks
 
You could go back to stock cooling, but I would seriously reconsider your stance re: Overclocking. You could get another 1GHz of CPU speed with a half decent cooler and a day following the overclocking sticky.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom