New pc, what do you think?

Xon · 1 Apr 2007 at 10:44

Hey all.. was looking at this:

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 PK PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400) 4-4-4-12
EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS SuperClocked 320MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)

Any recomendations? That's already stretching the budget so keep that in mind please

Thanks!

kmistry · 1 Apr 2007 at 11:17

That looks like a good rig tbh (almost identical-ish to mine) it will own, if you want to save money then perhaps get an E4300 the lower multiplier will help when clocking too

Kiz

Nick1881 · 1 Apr 2007 at 13:14

That will rock, same as mine almost, just wish I had that gfx card.

I have a 1950pro and its not struggled on anything yet.

semi-pro waster · 1 Apr 2007 at 14:26

Any particular reason for the EVGA Superclocked? You can get cheaper cards that will probably overclock the same and you can get ones with longer warranties so I was just curious in case I had missed something.

Oh and there is or was problems with certain GSkill Ram and the DS3, it might have been sorted but I don't know that for certain so maybe the OCZ PC2 6400 or similar would be a safer choice.

Nick1881 · 1 Apr 2007 at 14:29

That ram is fine, I have it at 900mhz.

semi-pro waster · 1 Apr 2007 at 14:36

mr_x_plosion said:
That ram is fine, I have it at 900mhz.

Excellent, they must have either updated the motherboard or the Ram then as there were a lot of early issues as per this thread.

Nick1881 · 1 Apr 2007 at 15:16

Im using the F7 bios, I was thinking about trying slacker timings and see if it will go further.

Ram already has +0.4v, although this shows as 2.1v in everest which is fine.

Xon · 1 Apr 2007 at 15:30

semi-pro waster said:
Any particular reason for the EVGA Superclocked? You can get cheaper cards that will probably overclock the same and you can get ones with longer warranties so I was just curious in case I had missed something.

Oh and there is or was problems with certain GSkill Ram and the DS3, it might have been sorted but I don't know that for certain so maybe the OCZ PC2 6400 or similar would be a safer choice.

I don't like overclocking anymore.. I prefer just getting something fitting it and it just works.. also, I doubt I'm gonna use the card for more than 10 years

Hmm i'll check about the g.skill then the problem is the geil is out of stock