New Rig

Jedipottsy · 19 Sep 2007 at 02:12

Hey im building a new rig within the next 3 weeks, and id like to spend under £1300, heres what i got: any suggestions?

Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB - £329
2x Crucial Ballistix 2GB - £200
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" - £181
Thermaltake VE2000BWS Armour LCS - £146
Gigabyte GA_P35T_DQ6 - £130
Corsair HX 620W - £94
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 500GB SATA-II - £69
Logitech G15 - £56
Swiftech Apogee GT Waterblock - £30
Samsung SH-S203BEBN - £20
3x Akasa AK-178-UV 12" Cold Cathode -£25
Arctic Silver 5 - £7

Total £1287

(also getting Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C5 - £58 for MBP, but that isnt part of the £1300)

Jedipottsy · 19 Sep 2007 at 10:19

DavidB said:
If your spending that much you'd want a CD drive in there too? , the one he selected would be fine, just wanted to point that out. Id say 8gb of RAM is a bit overkill, and just spending for the hell of it, especially when we don't know how far DDR3 is around the corner.
" 2x Crucial Ballistix 2GB - £200" im not sure how your working that out, but any ram that costs £100 for 2gb is overkill unless your a very extreme overclocker.

Id like to overclock as much as possible and i very rarely use my cd / dvd drive as it is. DDR3 is very expensive atm, with a cheap kit costing over £200, I really like the look of the Armor case and the crucial ballistix is the best buy, ill also know that when i oc it wont be my ram holding me back.

Jedipottsy · 19 Sep 2007 at 11:57

that better? Changed case for Shark case and using a swiftech Apex WC kit. Also i dont like Abit boards, just my preference.

Jedipottsy · 19 Sep 2007 at 16:09

DavidB said:
Watercooling kits generally don't seem to be as effective as custom kits, but i dont know all that much about watercooling . Whats the laptop memory about ?

I havnt done any water cooling before, i dont know what i need etc and if everything would fit. Obviously if you could point me in the right direction that would be awesome. Pref like an internal Radiator unless performance is much better external such as the Apex kit. Also the Memory is for my Macbook Pro.