Please check this system build - ta :)

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

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Hi guys

Can you give the once over to the specs below and give me any opinions please.

I'm building it for family members and the brief was...
"Build a PC that's as fast as possible for as little money as possible and is upgradeable" (thought he budget is up to £850)

There is no graphics card listed as I'm waiting till November to see what the new Nvidias are, in the meantime they will be borrowing a spare 7300 of mine.

HDD has been missed off as they have a Seagate 300GB which they will use.

PSU is a 620W in case they go for a 8(9)800GTX.

It's a big case as they are just getting into computers and want the extra room for big expansions and upgrades in the future.



CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750

Heatsink & Fan
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

Motherboard
Asus P5N32 SLI Premium

RAM
2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400

DVD-RW
Pioneer DVR-212BK

PSU
Corsair 620W

Case (big case for later upgrades)
CoolerMaster Stacker RC-810 Black Tower 11 Bays w/o PSU

OS
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium (undecided on 32 or 64 bit)


Is there anything glaringly obvious that should be removed / changed / added that I have missed off?

Thanks in advance :D
 
Why go for a dual rather than a quad core processor? Why get that particular CPU cooler?

How's this look?:
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once again billy beats me to it! :p

cant go wrong with the spec given by billy, psu will last no matter which gfx you choose :)

plenty of ram and quad core
 
Hi, thanks for the posts so far and suggestions! :)

The reason I was thinking dual core was because it's going to be a gaming machine (and standard school work), no photoshop or video encoding so I was thinking of a faster clock speed of the dual core would provide better performance?
 
If you want futureproofing the quad is a much better choice. Even on slow RAM like PC 5300 it's pretty darn easy to clock the new G0 C2Qs to 3.2 GHz. That's a lot of bang for your buck. In my spec I've included the best CPU heatsink, fan, and case available for 'clocking quads. :D
 
TheBigCheese said:
Sorry I should have mentioned overclocking is not something they want to go along with.

Everything will be running at stock speeds.
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Any reason why you dont want to overclock, it will significantly increase the performance, if you dont want to heavily go into overclocking ie voltage bumping then you could just up the fsb (front side bus) and not increase the voltage. even the best chips have more juice in them
 
I've never overclocked before and if I had some spare cash (and equipment!) lying about it's certainly something I would like to try for myself...

But the machine isn't for me and stability and reliability is a very important issue (so I don't get called out all the time to fix it)...also the fact that they aren't keen on the idea of it, which rather knocks the idea on the head!
 
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