Quick check before I click buy....

Guru

Guru

Guru

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Just about to click buy but I thought I'd better make sure I haven't made any stupid mistakes.....

Silverstone PS-01B-W "Precision" Tower Case Black with Window Side Panel w/o PSU + 700W FSP700-80GLN SATA/PCI-E 83%+ Eff Green ATX12v 2.01 EPS12v OEM £59.00 £69.33

Asus DRW-2014L1 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, x14 DVD-RAM, PATA, Lightscribe, Black OEM + £14.75 £17.33

120mm AKASA AK-191BL near Silent Imperial Blue value case fan £3.99 £4.69

120mm NORTHQ Silent Tornado Silver ALU Casefan, 17-19db, Blue LED, 38CFM,3pinn Molex £7.86 £9.24

2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, DHX £31.99 £37.59

Asus P5N-D, NF750i SLI, 775, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), DDR2, 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £68.99 £81.06

Intel Pentium Dual-Core, E2160, Socket 775, Allendale Core, 2x1.8 GHz, 2x 512KB Cache, Retail £36.59 £42.99

plus my trusty old PCI-E X1950XTX...

Does this all look ok? all compatible etc?

Cheers,

G
 
for when my gfx card is too old to cut the mustard :)

Is this a stupid idea?

I really want to make it so I can keep the mobo as long as possible and just upgrade the rest....am I an idiot?

Cheers,

G
 
Guru said:
for when my gfx card is too old to cut the mustard :)

Is this a stupid idea?

I really want to make it so I can keep the mobo as long as possible and just upgrade the rest....am I an idiot?
Click to expand...

nehalem is out later this year and it's a new socket.
 
New things are always around the corner. Waiting is a compromise. If you can wait for more than six months until Nehalem become mainstream then do so. If not, get yourself a high quality P45/X48 motherboard that will enable you to clock the nuts out of a Quad (Yorkfield chip, if you can afford it.)

If you manage to hit over 3.6GHz with the Yorkfield i sincerely doubt your CPU will be a problem anytime soon. Go with DDR2 as well, no real reason to go DDR3 at this time. Do take into account that most overclocks cant handle more than 4GBs of RAM, at least that what i heard, never tried it. My suggestion for RAM would be 2x2GB sticks with some lifetime warranty.
 
unless you do a lot of gaming and HAVE to have high end settings to play at a high res, i'd just go for a p35 mobo rather than sli.
 
I thought SLI was going to be great and than changed my mind from it, it truly isnt that good, rubbish reviews alround at this moment of time and there have been some topic saying SLI is eventually going to be dead between disputes with intel and nvidia.
But for 500 notes have alook at this build.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11840938&postcount=3
and if you truly want 4GB, get another set of the same.

~Slash
 
decided against SLI in the end:

1 LN20554 MI: Silverstone PS-01B-W "Precision" Tower Case Black with Window Side Panel w/o PSU + 700W FSP700-8 £59.00 £59.00
1 Silverstone PS-01B-W "Precision" Tower Case Black with Window Side Panel w/o PSU
1 700W FSP700-80GLN SATA/PCI-E 83%+ Eff Green ATX12v 2.01 EPS12v OEM
1 LN21556 Asus DRW-2014L1 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, x14 DVD-RAM, PATA, Lightscribe, Black OEM + £14.75 £14.75
1 Asus DRW-2014L1 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, x14 DVD-RAM, PATA, Lightscribe, Black OEM
1 5 Pack Mirror Double DVD Case Quality 14mm Retail Cello Wraped
1 Ahead Nero v7 - Essentials Suite 1 *OEM for Data, Audio, Photo, Video and TV
1 LN18951 120mm AKASA AK-191BL near Silent Imperial Blue value case fan £3.99 £3.99
1 LN14163 120mm NORTHQ Silent Tornado Silver ALU Casefan, 17-19db, Blue LED, 38CFM,3pinn Molex £7.86 £7.86
1 LN18745 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, DHX £31.99 £31.99
1 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, DHX
1 LN18699 Asus P5K, iP35, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667/800/1066*, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £54.50 £54.50
1 Asus P5K, iP35, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 667/800/1066*, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX
Net Total £172.09
Carriage £0.00
V.A.T £30.12
TOTAL £202.21
 
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