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[R4z0r]

Hi Guys,

How does this lot look? It will be running Vista x64 and I want to be able to play most games (Crysis and UT3 mainly) at pretty high resolution (1920 x 1200) with a decent amount of eye candy turned on. Will it cut it?

The reason I went for the 1066Mhz RAM was so I can clock the chip to 2.66Ghz (From looking around the forum this looks pretty doable on stock cooler/volts) while not having to lower the memory divider so I still get 1066Mhz memory bandiwdth? Is this a good move or would I benefit more from cheaper 800Mhz RAM and using a divider to keep the RAM running sweet?

I'm a little concerned about the graphics card, one of my biggest reasons for choosing it was the silent cooling but do you think it will perform well enough for my needs?

Finally, I already have a Tagan 500wt PSU, will this be enough?

Thanks!

 

[jak731]

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Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Abit IP35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £69.99
(£82.24) £69.99
(£82.24)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC) £34.99
(£41.11) £34.99
(£41.11)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £149.99
(£176.24) £149.99
(£176.24)
Intel Core 2 Duo E2180 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.00GHz (800FSB) - Retail £46.99
(£55.21) £46.99
(£55.21)
Sub Total : £301.96
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VAT is being charged at 17.5% VAT : £54.41
Total : £365.32

better GPU, but will still not be up to playign crysis on max at 1920x1200, pc2-6400 ram is enough to bring a e2180 to 3ghz+, only get the pc2-8500 stuff if you want to OC your CPU to about 4+GHz (water or phase cooling may be required, and your cpu may not even reach 4ghz)