What do you think of this choice of components.

nlel1975 · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:08

Q6600 @ 3.4ghz (hopefully)
Akasa Ak-965 Cooler
8GB PC2-6400 RAM
ASUS P5Q Pro
Xpertvision 8800GT 512MB
Hitachi Deskstar PK500 500GB SATA
Optiac 20X DVD+-RW SATA
Corsair 520W HX PSU
Antec 900 Ultimate Gamers Case

Cost £ 560 inc VAT & Del from a competitor(s) and a popular auction site.

dr. sarf · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:14

Isn't the latter a named competitor too? :rolleyes:

Looks good- really need 8GB RAM though?
It's hit and miss on good Q6600 overclockers at the moment too. Yesterday I had one chip with a VID of 1.18v and from the same batch one with a VID of 1.32v.

nlel1975 · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:20

dr. sarf said:
Isn't the latter a named competitor too?

Looks good- really need 8GB RAM though?
It's hit and miss on good Q6600 overclockers at the moment too. Yesterday I had one chip with a VID of 1.18v and from the same batch one with a VID of 1.32v.

I`ve got one from a popular auction site which has been run @ 3.4ghz on air so it should be quite good... could still have a high vid but if its been run at 3.4ghz then it should be ok for what I want. I know there are some really bad ones about which don't go higher then 3ghz.

MiNxYyY · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:51

if your going for 8gb of ram,atleast get a 64bit OS otherwise you'll be limited to 3.5

TheMagic1an · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:54

You could get a ATi 4850 and it would be faster than the GT. Also do you really need 8gigs?, i have 4gigs with vista x64 and i dont even use all of that and i even do video editing.

Apart from that, looks like a nice build .

nlel1975 · 17 Jul 2008 at 19:57

TheMagic1an said:
You could get a ATi 4850 and it would be faster than the GT. Also do you really need 8gigs?, i have 4gigs with visra x64 and i dont even use all of that and i even do video editing.

Apart from that, looks like a nice build .

I will be using Vista 64bit, I had 4gb in my old system and fancied a bit more this time, I got the 8800GT for £ 60 its the best bang for buck you can get.

dr. sarf · 17 Jul 2008 at 20:16

nlel1975 said:
I will be using Vista 64bit, I had 4gb in my old system and fancied a bit more this time, I got the 8800GT for £ 60 its the best bang for buck you can get.

For £60 its a good buy. All sounds OK - you're probably gonna need to raise your NB voltage slightly to get the 8GB stable.

mmorpheus1 · 17 Jul 2008 at 22:16

8Gb of ram is overkill , i have 4Gb and have never seen system using more than 3Gb , bit of a waste of money like everyone is saying :confused:

Natima · 17 Jul 2008 at 22:32

Yup... I actually read an article today which showed 8gig to be no faster at all, and in some cases slower than 4 gig.
But this was with a page-file.

hang on...

EDIT:
Here we go!
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/07/08/is-more-memory-better/1

marscay · 18 Jul 2008 at 07:46

mmorpheus1 said:
8Gb of ram is overkill , i have 4Gb and have never seen system using more than 3Gb , bit of a waste of money like everyone is saying

not if the guy wants to run a few VM's and is a high end Photoshop user etc etc

btw just about anyone i know who went from 4gb -> 8gb in Vista doesn't want to return to 4gb.