Please Spec me Big!

HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who helped me out with my spec.

Here's what I finally ordered, yeah - it's big and flashy etc but this is for work mainly and will no doubt be out of date in about 3 months and worth next to nothing but if it does the job well and I'm sure it will it will be worth it, plus I finally get to play BIOSHOCK!

Belkin 1200VA Universal Series UPS £93.99 1 £93.99
Akasa SATA-2 45cm Silver Data Cable £3.99 4 £15.96
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1 Sound Card - OEM £42.99 1 £42.99
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £284.99 1 £284.99
Logitech QuickCam Sphere MP £59.99 1 £59.99
Western Digital Caviar RE2 500GB 5000YS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £75.99 4 £303.96
Akasa 20/24-Pin 30cm PSU Extension Cable £3.99 1 £3.99
Saitek Eclipse 2 Illuminated Keyboard - Blue/Red/Purple £26.99 1 £26.99
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) £29.99 1 £29.99
G.Skill 4GB DDR2 PQ PC2-6400C5 (2x2GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ) £144.99 2 £289.98
Pioneer DVR-212D 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM £17.99 1 £17.99
Antec P182 Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Gun Metal Black) £69.99 1 £69.99
Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP-HC 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Midnight Grey £374.99 1 £374.99
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) £5.99 1 £5.99
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £153.99 1 £153.99
Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £149.99 1 £149.99
Scythe S-FLEX 1200RPM Ultra Quiet 120mm Fan - 3/4 pin £10.99 1 £10.99
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £79.99 1 £79.99
Logitech G9 Gaming-Grade Laser Mouse - Retail £49.99 1 £49.99

Again, huge thanks! :D
 
Would have been better to buy the Ip 35 pro and just bought a gigabyte card ive got one. But do you have a network capable of gygabyte?


Also you can only get EAX on other sound cards if you pay 100 quid and i dont think tis even out yet. Its on preorder i beleive (not checked)


I thought with asus motherboard if you ahve a GTX you loss half the sataports ??? The Abit Ip-35 pro is just superior i think and would have been cheaper to get that and a gigabyte network card if you needed it.
 
Ah well, I didn't know that - bit late now. I'm sure I'll find a way around it or end up purchasing the IP-35 and a gigabyte card.

EDIT: Rang them up, they hadn't sent the order out so I swapped it over for the Abit IP-35 and swapped the ram as well as they were out of stock.
 
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The Ip-35 PRO i hope as ive not seen you menchen the pro bit once through the thread. There are differences between the 3 you know. The pro is one if not the best in the P35 serlection.

O and it does come with Gigabit LAN, which is what you wanted i thought?
 
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It was the PRO, sorry I just assumed. The Pro does come with Gigabit LAN but it's not as quick as otherboards due to the onboard controller apparently. Hence the reason I went for the other board to begin with.

As I would be thinking about external RAID at a later date, I went with the other board but like you say, if I do go that route I can buy a gigabit ethernet card and do it that way.
 
Nice spec but do you have a 64bit OS let alone any OS? Ask because 32bit XP nor Vista see beyond 3.5GB :(

For main PC use it will be 'kickass' & for awhile ;)

Post up build pics if/when you can :)
 
I have Vista 32bit, have ordered the 64bit dvd from Microsoft. Trying to get hold of a 64bit dvd at the moment so I can install this weekend.

Will post up the build, it will either go really well or be a huge headache with RAID and overclocking etc. Interesting weekend ahead I think...
 
Good that you went with the pro :P was just checking.

I have the netgear ethanet port thingy though its 6 quid cheaper elsewhere on the net. I cant compare it to others though and i only run it at 100 instead of 1000. So cant really help, but generaly you cant go wrong with netgear ;)
 
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