Someone check this spec for me?

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Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

Leadtek GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2VU6674GK)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250410AS)

Samsung SH-S203NBEBN 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM

Gigabyte GZ-X1 Black Midi Case No PSU


This is for my cousin who will be ordering tomorrow as his current PC has hit the dirt and doesn't work at all anymore. Basically i want to get his PC as higher spec as possible because the likelyhood of him upgrading is slim to say the least. At the moment he is only on a 19" screen and wishes to stay at this res for a few years as otherwise he knows he'll be constantly upgrading.

Would this motherboard be ok for overclocking the Q6600? Will the Q6600 work straight away or will a bios flash be needed? I don't wan't to have to do any of this preferably and nor would he, so if something is incompatible or may cause issues please say. I'm assuming the RAM will be ok for a little overclocking? (would be chuffed at 3ghz) and he luckily has a retail copy of vista so i will install 64-bit.

Graphics card isnt the best but at £160 i think its pretty good for the price and should last him a few years at 1280x1024. He isn't one for playing at max graphics or with full AA or anything, but does play some of the latest games when he gets chance. UT3, CoD and Crysis are all games he would love to play and will hopefully be playing soon enough :)

He also has a Hiper 580W that he bought around 2005 but for obvious reasons didnt use most of the PCI-E connections and are still in his box. Would this be ok and have all the correct apapters, or would we need to get a new PSU?

I've never had experiance with SATA DVD-RW's before but im assuming that they are just like SATA HDD's and should just plug into mobo the same? Are they better or worse?

I must say, the last system i built was around 3 years ago when the A64 3000+ came out and the 9800XT was king at the time. Is it still pretty simple and straight forward?

Thanks for all your help. :)

If your wondering, he wants Mobo, CPU, RAM, GPU and a case at a minimum, but ideally a HDD, DVD-RW for no more than £600. Ideally, £500 is more where he wants to be.
 
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i got the P35-DS3R and Q6600 slackr cpu, got mine running at 3.6ghz with a scythe ninja cooler. mine was straight out of the box and its stable :)

lots of people have had troubles with the hiper psu, i myself would pick the corsair 520W just to be safe

sata dvd drives, just plug it in :) not a big expert in dvd drives but i found it makes the cable tidying a lot easier as the wire is a lot smaller

hope this helps a bit :)
 
Thanks.

A little dissapointing to hear about the Hiper 580W though. Cost's a lot for a good PSU and i thought i'd be the one piece of hardware ready to cope. After all, £70 can buy you a lot of better upgrades :(

I'll still keep optimistic though. I'll probibly give OcUK a ring or something to ask.

Would anyone change the spec or does that look OK?
 
shouldnt be disappointed, like i said some people had problems, others havent, depends how lucky you are with them :)

other than that the rest of the spec looks ok, im sure someone else will post if they can see anything worth changing
 
If he doesn't upgrade too often you might want to add extra £2 for the P35C-DS3R which supports DDR3 as well as DDR2 just to give it a bit longer life.

Otherwise it all looks good, a while ago there were lots of people reporting failed Hipers but since we're not hearing them anymore we can assume they've sorted the problems. It certainly has the power and the right connectors for the job.

The RAM is good if your only after a 3Ghz OC, but if you want to max out the OC this RAM will hold you back. You might also want to consider getting 2 Geil ULL PC6400 which is on this week only.
 
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