New PC, Spec check ....

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Buying parts to build my new gaming rig :-

Thermaltake VA8003BWS Armour Super Tower - Black £105.74
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £99.86
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £397.14
Asus P5N32-E SLi nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £176.24
OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2 (OCZ2P800R22GK) £170.36
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £66.96
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £213.84

sub Total : £1,046.93
Shipping : £10.95
Vat : £185.13
Total : £1,243.01

my budget is around £1200-1350, should i stick with WinXp or buy Vista ?
any advice welcome cheers
 
That's a great spec :) As for the XP Vs Vista debate, I personally am not going to buy Vista until around July time (but that's only because I'm in final year of uni and can't afford to have any early incompatibility issues!) A lot of people have been saying they won't be buying until they release SP1, which tbh i don't know when it will be. it's entierly up to you tbh, it is a very good operating system, from what a lot of people have been saying about the beta versions and at the end of the day its down to personal preference. Also you want to bear in mind that you are buying an 8800GTX which is DX10 and so is Vista, but I suppose until we see DX10 titles out (which is soon I imagine) we won't really know! Hope this helps, it's just an opinion but hey, it's one to get you started!

Kiz
 
thanks kmistry, the concerns you mentioned are basically what others have told me, stick with Xp then upgrade to vista once its established and updated
some say there are compatibility issues running some software/games on vista
 
hehe, that rig setup is brilliant :) mind if i steal it?

gonna send this link to my mate because he has the same budget and thats a brill rig build... nicely done :)

ags

as for the vista, wait till a sp comes out.
 
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