New system

Dunks · 24 Dec 2006 at 11:25

Ok, I should hopefully be ordering this tonight, but before I do I was just wondering if anyone knows of any problems that any peices of hardware have/may have with each other, or if anyone knows any small improvements I can make, heres the specs. Thanks.

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1950 XT-X SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR4 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 NCQ 80GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream SuperMidi Aluminium Tower - Black
Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Pioneer DVR-111BK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 Sound Card

furnace · 24 Dec 2006 at 11:36

It isn't much more than the XTX to get an 8800... why not do that?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-036-BG

Things change I've changed · 24 Dec 2006 at 11:39

The thing that sticks out like a sore thumb for me is the 80gb hard drive, are you sure thats going to be enough.

The minimum I'd reccomend would be a 160gb and thats about £10 more than the one in your spec list, £10 extra's not bad for double the hardrive size.

semi-pro waster · 24 Dec 2006 at 11:59

I'd agree with both the above posts, 80gb does not last long now when games installs can easily take up 3gb each. If the 8800GTS would be stretching the budget then I'd drop the Audigy to save £20 or so since the onboard sound is probably on a par, the case is also pretty much a rip-off of the Coolermaster Wavemaster as far as I can tell so the cooling may not be all that great internally - you could change to the Lian-Li PC7+ if you needed to save some cash still and I think it is a better case.

Dunks · 24 Dec 2006 at 12:33

I have another 160Gb drive that I will be using aswell, so the 80Gb will do fine. I swapped the card to the 8800GTS and the case to the Lian Li, and the price is practically the same, thanks

. Another thing, anyone know of any issues with using the above ram and the board together?

tomanders91 · 24 Dec 2006 at 12:56

if its an 8800 that psu should be ok, but i would definatly reccomend a better one, maybe a corsar 620w, or akasa 650w (only £88), or just a bigger enermax one.