Spec Check, please

Sultan of Swing · 9 Oct 2008 at 18:20

Does that look okay?

Also a couple of things--would that PSU be enough for if I were to upgrade to crossfire and add a couple of extra hard drives and a sound card in the future;

and are floppy drives necessary these days? I ask because in my current PC I've found it useful for flashing the BIOS and adding drivers during windows installation, but even back when I built that it seemed that they were going out of fashion, as it were. Thanks.

RJC · 9 Oct 2008 at 18:36

The Corsair will be plenty for future use.
Floppy, I only connect mine when needed, Only used to install my RAID drivers, most modern boards like the one specified can use memory sticks and most drivers come on cd.

Rest of spec looks fine, you might want to look at the E8XXX range if your looking at gaming.

Thanh55 · 9 Oct 2008 at 22:19

Go for Tuniq Tower instead of Noctua, its will keep your quad 6600 cooler than. 750 is plenty so not to worry. Floppy not necessery. Asus board will allow you to falsh BIOS by thumble drive. The rest look powerful. What's your screen?

Sultan of Swing · 10 Oct 2008 at 00:31

Screen's a measly 17" CRT, but that will change in time.

Thinking of a 24". As for the E8xxx, I read a link in another thread and it looks like it would probably be best to get a E8400 instead. Thanks for the advice, guys.

jak731 · 10 Oct 2008 at 00:34

get the retail q6600 if you are

not planning to lap the cpu

planning to keep it for at least 3 years

the retail cpu has a 3 year warranty rather then 1 year as the OEM does

what is the pc for?

Sultan of Swing · 10 Oct 2008 at 00:41

Gaming, mostly. Hence the switch to dual core.

jak731 · 10 Oct 2008 at 00:50

e8400 then

Sultan of Swing · 10 Oct 2008 at 01:08

Ordered!