Spec check and advice please

Elwood · 11 Nov 2007 at 15:12

Looking at a new rig, as below,
any thoughts?
intending to dual boot with Vista, hence 4gig of ram
Is it worth getting a mb with ddr3 capability ?
I am going to overclock it
Any comments welcome prior to me parting with some hard earned :-)

many thanks

Dave

semi-pro waster · 11 Nov 2007 at 15:49

All looks fine although if you wanted to save a bit of cash you could buy 4x1gb of PC6400 Geil for about £70 instead of the 2x2gb kit there. I probably wouldn't bother with getting a motherboard that supports DDR3 at the moment, there are no real compelling reasons for it and it costs a lot more. It doesn't hurt to have the capability I suppose but by the time DDR3 is necessary you'll probably be changing CPU and motherboard anyway.

Elwood · 11 Nov 2007 at 15:56

cheers.

this OK

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-058-GL&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=813

2 of them obviously :-)

semi-pro waster · 11 Nov 2007 at 16:00

Yep, that is the stuff I meant. Good value at the moment and quite capable as well, it certainly shouldn't hold you back for overclocking.

Elwood · 11 Nov 2007 at 16:50

many thanks for your time

Elwood · 11 Nov 2007 at 18:14

just a thought, PSU OK or should I look at more juice

semi-pro waster · 11 Nov 2007 at 22:36

The PSU is more than capable for what you require there, you have capacity to upgrade/overclock easily.

Elwood · 12 Nov 2007 at 16:48

many thanks AGAIN