Spec Check

[GhostlyPea]

Comments and opinions please - needs to be from scratch! ditching my old rig and pawning it to somebody ^

Not 100% sure if the second optical drive is needed but I always find a redundancy is handy, or if copying discs etc., besides for 13 quid cant complain ^

- Pea0n

 

[mp260767]

i'd drop the psu to the corsair 520w and swap the gfx card to the ocuk 8800gtx.

unless the sata cables are "secure" cables i wouldnt bother, use the ones with the mobo.

maybe look at the Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler.

look around for yate loon fans instead of the noctua ones, cheaper by a mile and just as good.

if you;'re right on budget would drop the 2nd dvd drive in order to get the gtx.

 

[Lonz]

Do you really need 2 DVD-ROM/RW's?

 

[C64]

Or even drop to a normal non oc 8800gts 640mb they are all the same the oc ones are just bios flashed to those clocks.To be honest everyones thinking oh i need a gtx for crysis but i am thinking more along the lines that this game is like sup comm there isn't a cpu/gpu yet that can max it out without issues.

 

[ThatJoe]

Get the G0 Version for the Q6600. As others have said, why two DVD drives? for sound check out the X-Fi XtremeMusic as it's exactly like the XtremeGamer but cheaper. 64 Bit vista? Maybe invest in another 2 GB of ram.

 

[J.D]

Drop the CPU and get this one instead http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-161-IN&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=793.

It's the same model but is cooler and overclocks better and only £8 dearer.

Edit: ThatJoe beat me to it .

 

[C64]

Well worth the extra £30 for the 4 gig of ram for vista 8800gtx superior sound card and hard drive is better and cheaper the aaks range are faster than the .10's personally i wouldn't go for a tn film monitor but that's a whole other debate but the 223bw is as good as the 226bw 2232bw only difference is the overdrive to 2ms which can cause more harm than good and certainly not worth the extra.

 

[mp260767]

any obvious reason why the ip35 pro cant be dropped to the ip 35 ?

 

[C64]

Probably not no but something in my head says the pro is the best clocking board for quads with better bios's as well as better cooling and esata.

 

[GhostlyPea]

OK well thanks for the help guys, this is what i've compiled with some bits switched around

All its' missing is a few fans but ill try and find a few loons somewhere

thanks again

- Pea0n