Spec check please!

Appzman · 22 May 2007 at 08:50

Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache - OEM £86.99

Samsung SpinPoint T HD501LJ 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM £61.99

Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower Case - Black £49.99

Samsung SM-226BW 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Glossy Black £224.99

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £314.99

Noctua NH-U12F (Socket LGA775/754/939/940/AM2) Heatsink £27.99

Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-620HXUK) £84.99

Gigabyte GA_P35_DS3P (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £89.99

Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA663) £61.99 x 2

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £119.99

Samsung SH-183LBEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99

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Operating system will be Vista, and the purpose of the system is gaming.

Any thoughts and suggestions always welcome!

waso_dude · 22 May 2007 at 08:58

are you gunna be overclocking??

if so look at the balistics 5300 ram it will hit 1000mhz so i'm told. And is a lot better than the geil

melbourne720 · 22 May 2007 at 10:30

You might want to get the P35 based DS3P for future proofing, (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-085-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913), and maybe faster RAM (although with that RAM at stock the e6600 would have a speed of 3.6GHz, which would be at the top end of what you are likely to achieve).

Looks an amazing rig though, that monitor is supposed to be amazing. :cool:

masslac · 22 May 2007 at 10:38

Lose the Raptor, change the storage drive to a Western Digital, the HSF to a Tuniq Tower, and the mobo to an 650i Asus.

Appzman · 22 May 2007 at 12:10

melbourne720 said:
You might want to get the P35 based DS3P for future proofing, (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-085-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913), and maybe faster RAM (although with that RAM at stock the e6600 would have a speed of 3.6GHz, which would be at the top end of what you are likely to achieve).

Looks an amazing rig though, that monitor is supposed to be amazing.

Board changed to the P35 based DS3!..i had not noticed that board, so cheers for that tip

RAM changed to the Ballistics 5300 after reading the reviews.

melbourne720 · 22 May 2007 at 12:19

That'll be a really nice system

mp260767 · 22 May 2007 at 12:25

if you want 4gb go for some thing like the OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2-5400C5 Dual Channel Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2VU6674GK).