Spec Check!

Aruffell · 28 Dec 2008 at 18:03

Upgrading from a socket 939 system which has an opteron, 2gb ram, 7800gt oc, 3 hard drives.

My new system will consist of -

CPU

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz Guaranteed to run at 3.30GHZ (1466FSB) - Retail £169.99 (£195.49)

Motherboard

DFI Lan Party JR P45-T2RS Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £94.99 (£109.24)

Case

Lian-Li V350B Aluminium Mini-Tower - Black (No PSU) £73.99 (£85.09)

Hard Drive (External)

Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD10EADS) £72.99 (£83.94)

Memory (8gb)

2 x OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Reaper HPC Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2RPR10664GK) £139.98 (£160.98)

I have 2 new Pioneer Sata DVD-RW's and a 250GB hard drive for windows and the WD 1tb will b for storage.

I also have an Asus Xonar D2X and Hiper 580Watt Modular PSU to use.

How does this all look to you?

I need a graphics card specced and possibly a new PSU to power this all plus the graphics card.

Spec me lease

Thanks,

Andy

Glaucus · 28 Dec 2008 at 18:10

How much money are you spending?
I would get a q9550 instead or if you are looking at over 1k i7. Gigabyte are releasing cheap x58 motherboards very soon and your already willing to spend £160 on ram.

Aruffell · 28 Dec 2008 at 18:23

I was thinking of getting 4gb first, and then 4gb later.

X58?

Andy

wingnuttzz · 28 Dec 2008 at 18:28

OMFG, 200 quid for a Q6600. Heck, i paid 80 for mine, and you could buy them off the shelf at that time for a 117. Thats a stupid ammount of money for what is old tech now, even if its still one of the best CPU's.

and don't bother paying the extra for "guarentee'd to run at". Just a marketing scam, any q6600 with proper cooling should be able to hit 3.4ghz.

as for graphics card, look at the nvidia 260/280 range or maybe the ATI 4870 range and for PSU's, a nice 600+w psu will be more than suffice. Look at brands like Corsair, Enermax and ThermalTake and you can't go wrong.

Aruffell · 28 Dec 2008 at 18:46

Ok, maybe i'd buy one second hand.

Do i need a new PSU? Or will my Hiper (when i get it back from RMA) be ok?

Andy

Glaucus · 28 Dec 2008 at 18:49

hiper should be powerful enough if it doesn't blow up and take your pc out.

What budget are you looking at for everything?

Aruffell · 28 Dec 2008 at 19:12

£700 ish i guess.

Graphics isn't a major worry to start with as can use my 7800GT OC.

Andy