Spec Check

Steve Ryan · 28 Mar 2007 at 22:56

Hiya I have the system in my sig below and very pleased with it quick and reliable........... I have a problem it's called my son i promised ages ago i was going the build him a PC, so he is having mine.

So i have put together a few parts for a new system

Asus Commando M/B
E6600
Artic Pro 7 Cooler
2x WD 500gig AAAKS in raid 0
Pionner DVR 112
BFG 8800 GTS 320mb
Antec 900 case
Corsair 520w PSU

not sure on the MB or CPU as I know E6300 o/c well but as i can afford E6600 at the moment i might just go for it.

The Commando i know is expensive so not sure if it's worth the money as i'm more than happy with the DS3, but the DS3P looks good also.

I'm keeping the 2gig 10th Anniversary memory to go in the new system.
It will be running on 64bit Vista Ultimate.

Any suggestions more than welcome

Thanks

Will_3rd · 29 Mar 2007 at 10:18

Would go for the DS3 M/B, OCZ or Geil RAM and a 6300 your son doesn't really the 4MB L2 cache really does he?

Steve Ryan · 29 Mar 2007 at 11:23

Thanks my son is having my recently built PC i'm having the new one....

mishima · 29 Mar 2007 at 11:39

I'd like to just say, as the DS3P is almost the same price but a complete revision on the DS3 ironing out the compatibility issues and with better features it would be sensible to go for that over the standard DS3 board. Nice setup.

Steve Ryan · 29 Mar 2007 at 11:51

So would you say DS3P over the asus commando,

E6600 over the E6300 ? what would be your opinion as i see you have the 6600 in your sig..

mishima · 29 Mar 2007 at 12:01

The commando is a great overclocker but then the DS3P is too. The commando supports SLI, thats the only really major benefit. The DS3P would be a better option to go for I would think, its a good solid board and you would be saving quite a bit of dollar. The DS3P also supports Quad core (1333MHz) which is a future proof

For the CPU again it depends on budget the E6300 and E6600 will both reach 3GHz the cache on the E6600 is greater which benefits in encoding work etc.

Twinblade · 29 Mar 2007 at 12:10

If your taking the RAM out of the old machine, whats your son getting?

Steve Ryan · 29 Mar 2007 at 12:15

Hi

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) PC2-6400 Dual Channel Platinum Revision 2 XTC Series DDR2

Probably not much difference between them, but the Crucial ram overclocks well so i'm keeping that.

Steve Ryan · 29 Mar 2007 at 22:17

Thanks guys for your input anyone else