New Rig Spec - Comments or Recommendations

GodMac · 12 Sep 2007 at 12:35

Hi All,

Looking to buy the below in the next month so would appreciate any comments or recommendations.

Uses are for gaming and video editing. I'll run with RAID 0 on the disks with a backup IDE drive for data.

Looking to stay at DDR2 memory at the moment and jump to DDR3 in 18 months, hense the cheaper ASUS mobo. (I like ASUS, always servered me well).

My budget is £800 and I have a screen and Kb.

Antec Ninehundred Gaming Case
Zalman CNPS 9700 LED Socket 754, 940, 775, 939 & AM2 CPU Cooler
Antec Truepower NEO 650W
Optiarc NEC AD7170S Serial ATA 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
OcUK GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.0GHz (1333FSB)

Thanks in advance.

gumbald · 12 Sep 2007 at 12:45

I'd remove the link to the competitor, else you'll be going on holiday

And get the Tuniq Tower anyway...

GodMac · 12 Sep 2007 at 13:14

Cheers. Appologies for the hyperlink.

Looked at the spec on the Tuniq Tower 120 and its sounds excellent but I read in one of the reviews that it can get a bit noisey as you turn the colling up.

DavidB · 12 Sep 2007 at 13:18

as you turn the colling up

So leave it low

or replace the fan, mines running an e2140 at 3ghz idleing ~26c and thats on about 600rpm which is virtually silent.
Go for a corsair PSU instead, and personally id get a quad core (Q6600) instead, seeing as there around the same price.

gumbald · 12 Sep 2007 at 13:22

DavidB said:
Go for a corsair PSU instead, and personally I'd get a quad core (Q6600) instead, seeing as they're around the same price.

Yeah, forgot to recommend that too

GodMac · 12 Sep 2007 at 14:41

Thanks guys. Couple of questions:

1, PSU: Do you recommend the Corsair 620W Modular? Why?
2, Why Quad core apart from price? The apps arn't here yet for Q4 so is there another benefit?

gumbald · 12 Sep 2007 at 14:50

GodMac said:
Thanks guys. Couple of questions:

1, PSU: Do you recommend the Corsair 620W Modular? Why?
2, Why Quad core apart from price? The apps arn't here yet for Q4 so is there another benefit?

1. They're built by Seasonic I believe and people have found them to be very high quality supplies.

2. Why not?

More and more applications are utilizing multiple cores, may as well take the step forward if it's in reach.

stickroad · 12 Sep 2007 at 14:51

GodMac said:
Thanks guys. Couple of questions:

1, PSU: Do you recommend the Corsair 620W Modular? Why?
2, Why Quad core apart from price? The apps arn't here yet for Q4 so is there another benefit?

You said your going to be using your machine for gaming and video editing?

Your crazy if you dont get a Quad Core.

GodMac · 12 Sep 2007 at 15:09

stickroad said:
Your crazy if you dont get a Quad Core.

I a crazy guy m8e

However, I originally looked at the e6600, then the e6750, then the e6850, now the Q6600, so I'm changing all the time. If I don't choose and buy soon I'll be looking at the Intel OctaQuad9900 with DDR7!

Oh, one last thing, is the Q6600 OK with the Asus P5N-e I'm looking at?