Quick spec check

snooksy · 27 May 2007 at 17:02

Hi,

Been reading these forums for the past week or so, trying to decide what to buy - I'm looking for a gaming pc for around £1100 without a monitor, keyboard, mouse or OS as I can reuse the ones from my current pc. I will probably overclock at some point once I've read more about it and have a bit more confidence.

The spec I've come up with is as follows:

Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99 (£19.96)
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663) £63.99 (£75.19)
2 x Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £79.98 (£93.98)
Zalman CNPS9500-LED Aero Flower (Socket 939/754/478/775) CPU Cooler £27.99 (£32.89)
EVGA nForce 680i SLi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (122-CK-NF68-A1) £149.99 (£176.24)
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £87.99 (£103.39)
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black £49.99 (£58.74)
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £324.99 (£381.86)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £125.99 (£148.04)

Total : £1,103.15

I'd just like to check before ordering that all the components will work ok together, and that I've left it open for future upgrades. Any comments will be much appreciated.

Cheers,

James

Will_3rd · 27 May 2007 at 17:13

Looks OK would change the HDDs to the AAKS series can be found below:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/search_results.php?sortby=&groupid=&string=aaks

Plus the HSF to the Noctua UHF12 or Tuniq Tower

Jaffa_Cake · 27 May 2007 at 17:16

Hey snooksy and welcome to OcUK forums.

Thats a very nice initial spec you got there BUT, there is a few really small changes I would like to make.

You said you will probobly overclock in the future. I changed the ram for a something similar which runs slightly faster at Stock. I've seen this RAM oc'd higher than the Ballistix PC5300 @ 1050MHz @ 5-4-4-12 on stock volts. I would go for that if I was buying a new system just now.

Changed the Zalman for a Noctua too, because its quieter ( and better )

The mobo too, for the new Intel chipset over the 680i which isn't better than the P35 IMO.

My initial spec as follows:

Imy · 27 May 2007 at 17:22

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL

If this memory goes down to £58 again (has done at least twice) then I'd personally get 4GB of this.

For PSU's I'm a big fan of Enermax. My current Enermax 550W PSU has been in use 24/7 for 5 years and is still rock solid.

Along with the other small changes Jaffa_Cake recommended its looking good.

snooksy · 27 May 2007 at 18:59

Thanks for all your help, almost certainly decided to go with Jaffa_Cake's spec but with 2 of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-130-WD. I think I'm right in saying that my 32-bit copy of XP won't fully utilise 4GB of RAM, so I'll probably leave that until I get Vista.

Cheers,

James

Jaffa_Cake · 27 May 2007 at 20:06

snooksy said:
with 2 of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-130-WD

I just love the shiney picture of the seagates

setter · 28 May 2007 at 02:24

snooksy said:
Thanks for all your help, almost certainly decided to go with Jaffa_Cake's spec but with 2 of these: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-130-WD. I think I'm right in saying that my 32-bit copy of XP won't fully utilise 4GB of RAM, so I'll probably leave that until I get Vista.

Cheers,

James

great hard drive snooksy, very quiet and ** right about windows xp not recognizing 4gb of ram