Upgading - need some advice please

=Sixpack= · 14 Apr 2008 at 19:57

Hello Everyone - im currently using an old 939 single cpu rig and am looking to upgrade now i have had a half decent payrise at work,been doing some research as best as i can since its been 3 years since i built this rig and things have changed,was wondering if it is all compatible and is there any overkill areas which i could calm down,The machine will purely be for gaming,processor and gfx card are a definate,also can i add another gfx card exactly the same for crossfire? (never used crossfire so haven't a clue)
Any help and advice would be great - thankyou.

already have a Thermaltake Kandalf case,hard drives and dvd drives.

OCZ 4GB (2x2GB) PC2-9200C5 1150MHz Flex II Passive/WaterCooled Dual Channel DDR2

OCZ ProXStream 1000w SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply

Asus Rampage Formula Intel X48 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional Series 7.1

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 LGA775 'Wolfdale' 3.16GHz (1333FSB) - Retail

HIS ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 1024MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express)

Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)

Sub Total : £929.92

Total : £1,105.52

=Sixpack= · 14 Apr 2008 at 21:33

Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-Express Sound Card - Retail

Corsair TX 750W ATX2.2 SLI Compliant PSU (DOES SLI PSU WORK WITH CROSSFIRE?)

Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x2GB) Supplied with Airflow Fan (TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF)

Have made these changes,sound card sounds great - thankyou for bringing it to my attention

750W power supply for when i get another gfx card some months down the line,
and memory looks good and cheaper than the water cooled ocz.

total price now 50 quid cheaper than before too,

Sub Total : £880.92

Total : £1,047.95

Thankyou again everyone,looking forward to banging it all together

=Sixpack= · 14 Apr 2008 at 22:27

Pr-order - just means i will have to wait a bit longer (no rush)

Im also ordering Windows Vista , 64bit version, but premium or basic?, im rooting for basic because i cant see anything on the premium version i would miss,and would vista be ok on my raptor 34gb HD? i only have that hd and a 250 one thats going to be for games and storage.

=Sixpack= · 15 Apr 2008 at 19:09

Is premium worth getting over basic then?

And is my 34gb drive big enough for vista?

=Sixpack= · 15 Apr 2008 at 19:33

Thankyou folks,you have been very helpfull,Been hard work deciding between everything on offer,im still not sure going ati x2 is better than GTX but i still have untill 26th when i place the order.