Spec check please !

Arge

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Hi guys,
could you just have a quick look over the following components before i hit the buy button !? My budget is £700 and i want a decent base system that i can upgrade to a dx10 card when the prices fall.

I chose the p5b deluxe as im not sure i can wait for Nvidia 650i Ultra. Would people recomend waiting ?? as i wont be ordering these for 2 weeks. Any dates for 650i ultra yet ???

The pc will be an upgrade from my sig so i think i should see a good performance boost ! I will be running the pc at clock speeds for a month or so but will buy a better air cooler and have a go at overclocking (newbie) at some point.

Any non compatible bits there ????

Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK) £59.99
(£70.49)

HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (H195PRQT256DD-R)
£117.99
(£138.64)

Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £105.99
(£124.54)

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ST3250620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
£49.99
(£58.74)

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
£144.99
(£170.36)

Asus P5B Deluxe (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
£104.99
(£123.36)

Sub Total : £583.94
Vat : £103.93
Total : £697.82


What do you rekon ?

Cheers
Arge
 
cheers steve,
yeh thought that actually after i posted !

What cooler do you recomend ? the quieter the better !

any other coments/ things people would change on the spec ?
 
Ivan Drago said:
Maybe a bigger PSU if you're gonna be going for a higher end drop price DX10 card in a few months?
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Completley unneccesary IMO- the PSU will be fine. Nice spec though, will be a great performance boost :) Only suggestion I would make is to change the GeIL RAM as I've been hearing bad things about them recently.
 
Trigger said:
Completley unneccesary IMO- the PSU will be fine. Nice spec though, will be a great performance boost :)
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agreed, I can't fault it myself and I tried, I may of been temped to go with the Gigabyte DS3 Motherboard but then thats just down to personal choice, the Asus board you've chossen is very nive also.
 
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Arge said:
I chose the p5b deluxe as im not sure i can wait for Nvidia 650i Ultra. Would people recomend waiting ?? as i wont be ordering these for 2 weeks. Any dates for 650i ultra yet ???
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I'd wait, the 650i is almost here, Anandtech's write up is pretty good...

"It may turn out that this chipset isn't so much of a P965 killer but instead is a 680i killer in most cases. "

ASUS P5N-E SLI: NVIDIA's 650i enters with a Bang
 
What sort of problems have people been seeing with the Geil ram ??

I was under the impression from the way people talk that Geil as one of the best out there !

i dont want the ram to let my shiny new system down !

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Arge said:
What sort of problems have people been seeing with the Geil ram ??

I was under the impression from the way people talk that Geil as one of the best out there !

i dont want the ram to let my shiny new system down !

ta
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GeIL certainly wasn't the best out there anyway. I read in another thread somewhere that a lot of people have had to RMA quite a few faulty sticks- some Cellshock, G.Skill, OCZ or some Corsair stuff will be better I think :)
 
but apart from that the spec looks good yes ?? (even if i wait for a 650i SLI/Ultra board)


any other suggestions ?
 
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