Spec check please :)

dhill · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:22

Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.0GHZ
Asus CROSSHAIR nForce 590 SLi (Socket AM2) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4PRO (2Gb kit)
BENQ FP222WH 22" WIDESCREEN TFT DISPLAY
SEASONIC M12 700 WATT POWER Supply
Asus GeForce 8800 Ultra HTDP 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
2x Seagate Barracuda ES 320GB ST3320620NS SATA-II 16MB Cache
LiteON LH-20A1P-487C 20x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer
Asus E616A3T Serial ATA 16x DVD-ROM
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case

stickroad · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:28

How much is all that coming too?

If your spending as much as that, go for Intel.

dhill · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:30

Around a grand or so.

What intel cpu would you recommend instead then?

stickroad · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:31

This one:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-143-IN

Whats your budget?

dhill · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:32

Around the £1,000 mark or so

stickroad · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:39

dhill said:
Around the £1,000 mark or so

Thats not including the screen right?

dhill · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:40

The screens only around £167

stickroad · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:41

dhill said:
The screens only around £167

Ive just specced that system up and its around £1100 and thats without the screen.

dhill · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:42

sounds about right bud

What would an equivilant Intel system come out at?

Anything in there thats total overkill?

stickroad · 7 Aug 2007 at 15:50

Ok well hows this:

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM X2
Asus DRW-1814BLT 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard - OEM
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case

Total : £1,029.11

The Q6600 is a fantastic CPU, very fast. It will overclock to 3GHZ with little problems.

The Tuniq Tower is a great CPU Cooler and will cool the Quad very effeiciantly.

The Gigabyte motherboard is one of the latest motherboard chipsets, P35, it supports Intels upcoming 45nm processors, very reliable, solid and great overclocking potenial boards.

The Crucial Memory will hit 1000MHZ+ with ease, great stuff.

The 8800GTX is a fantastic card. The Ultra is a waste of money, since it only offers a few extra FPS over the GTX.

The Western Digital Hard drives, very reliable and quite.

The ASUS DVD Drive, nice drives. They also connect to your motherboard via SATA, this means you can get rid of them fat, ugly IDE cables.

The Creative Soundcard is a very good card for the price, well worth getting.

The Corsair PSU is one of the best PSUs around.

The case is up to you but have a look at something like this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-AK&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=507

Fantastic build quality and cooling is very good as well.

clocka · 7 Aug 2007 at 16:20

stickroad said:
Ok well hows this:

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
Gigabyte GA_P35C_DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 & DDR3 Motherboard
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Dual Channel Kit
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE16 320GB 3200AAKS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM X2
Asus DRW-1814BLT 18x18 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music 7.1 Soundcard - OEM
Corsair HX 620W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU
Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gaming Case

Total : £1,029.11

The Q6600 is a fantastic CPU, very fast. It will overclock to 3GHZ with little problems.

The Tuniq Tower is a great CPU Cooler and will cool the Quad very effeiciantly.

The Gigabyte motherboard is one of the latest motherboard chipsets, P35, it supports Intels upcoming 45nm processors, very reliable, solid and great overclocking potenial boards.

The Crucial Memory will hit 1000MHZ+ with ease, great stuff.

The 8800GTX is a fantastic card. The Ultra is a waste of money, since it only offers a few extra FPS over the GTX.

The Western Digital Hard drives, very reliable and quite.

The ASUS DVD Drive, nice drives. They also connect to your motherboard via SATA, this means you can get rid of them fat, ugly IDE cables.

The Creative Soundcard is a very good card for the price, well worth getting.

The Corsair PSU is one of the best PSUs around.

The case is up to you but have a look at something like this:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-005-AK&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=507

Fantastic build quality and cooling is very good as well.

this is a much better spec!

swap the board for the ds4 and the cooler to thermalright ultra 120 extreme and it will be perfect.

dhill · 7 Aug 2007 at 16:27

Cheers for the advice guys!

Would you run XP or Vista 64 on this rig?

clocka · 7 Aug 2007 at 17:26

run xp pro sp2 and dual boot vista x64 sp1 once that is out, without sp1 vista isnt that good.