Advice on new rig!

dazftw

So ive been researching researching researching and have come down to the following parts for my 1st ever self build and im quite happy with it!

I want to get all your opinions on this now and let me know what you think as a gaming PC! Im pretty sure myself that it will run the games I play but I decided to get more opinions from you guys cause thats what your hear for like

I was really stuck which to choose between the 8800 GTS 320 or 640MB im going with the 320 because of my monitor id say it will handle the res!

Anyways... the games I play are BF2 HL2(series) CS:S CS 1.6
I have a 19" widescreen LCD 1440 X 900

Here it is:

Case

Antec 900

€110.92

Motherboard

Evga nForce-680i SLI

€252.40

PSU

Seasonic 600W

€137.68

Processor

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600

€293.48

Ram

Corsair Memory TWIN2X2048-6400

€213.23

Graphics Card

XFX GeForce 8800GTS 320MB

€292.60

Hard Drive

Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA2

€74.30

DVD Drive/Burner

NEC DVD±recorder

€28.49

OS

Microsoft Win XP Home

€88.98

Delivery: €26.99

Total: €1,496.76

Prices are from dabs.ie which is around €100 cheaper than komplett..

This will be bought hopefully within the next 5 weeks! Whenever I get my tax return

So what do you guys think? Also im pretty sure it will drop maybe 50 - 100 in a month... this setup was like 1800 just after christmas so I think its a great saving!

joshcork

Hey,
I'm making up a new rig at the moment aswell what you have there looks good. Thats one hell of a mother board I'm going for the same corsair RAM but what CAS Latency does that one have.
Can't find many PSU's down here in the UAE, but I found a Zalman 600HP which looks cool.
XFX are a great brand of GPU aswell getting similar myself, if there are is a XXX after the GTS its better again obviously enough I suppose (more overclocking).
Check which version/generation the Seagate drive is there is noise and power differences between the 7200.9, 7200.10. Leaning towards the older 7200.9 actually less noise and less power requirement.
The price looks good and it'll only go down with time.

dazftw

Is CL5? Im guessing lower is better? I think I read that somewhere on here

joshcork

This is true but its a nerdy area, basically more GB's is more important I think but its nice to know what it means anyhow.
http://www.hardware.info/en-UK/articles/am5nZmpvZA/Memory_modules_buyers_guide/2
is a good article on the issue good site actually has a few guides like that which break down the details into bit size chunks
Just did the first round of buying myself a bit tired now (mentally) so much money for a bunch of boxes.

TonyM.

Go for the Western Digital se16 320 gb drive only 10.00 more.
The e6600 will probably drop in price,
and you should probably go for Vista.

dazftw

Yea im really thinking about vista I duno though still contemplating... it reduces performances in some games... Especially the ones im playing

Im on a budget aswell so depends!

Yea I heard another boards member say to get like cheaper ram but get more cause I wont notice difference in performance!

Yea the the cpu is gone down a good €40 over the past weeks!

Overheal

Could you not get even faster holiness out of your read-speeds if you use 2x drives and link them using SATA-RAID? The advantage being that each drive mirrors the other; effectively doubling your wow factor...drawback being if one dies the other gets amnesia /=/

Still....its fast

dazftw

Im trying to get job before I buy this cause if I do I can spend alot more

At the moment I have to stick with this stuf because I barely have enough money for it as it is!


I have to learn more about raid actually... I know I need two drives anyway... lol do I need some extra pci card to get it going?

awhir

no your board can support it.but ur raid can fail and anytime and you may loose all ur data.

dazftw

Anyone wana buy my pc? lol Its going be delay like an extra 2 weeks now

DirkVoodoo

Is that motherboard not a bit overkill for what u need? I was looking at the Gigabyte DS-3, its performance is on a par with boards twice its price, or the Asus P5N-E?

Just a thought. The rest of it looks sweet anyway, best of luck.

dazftw

I plan on overclocking... and adding another GTS...

The thought had crossed my mind go cheaper with it and spend it on something else.. but im going keep it for the future :P

awhir

try to get a evga gfx in time to come they will let u trade in ur gts and get a new evga card for cheap.ask tonny m about it

dazftw

Can anyone suggest/comment on places where I can buy all this stuff.. I just read a ton of bad reviews for dabs.ie and now im curious!

I want to be secure as possible because its not going to be my own credit card im using its an uncles!

Dont want there to be any complications!

Has anyone got anything from dabs.ie?

Ive gotten from komplett but.. prices are higher than others and im on a budget!

awhir

i would go with overclocker i find them good.

dazftw

Yea I found them to be good on prices! about €50 euro cheaper than dabs.ie

Im not buying an os though... im just going to sell my parts from my old pc and keep the os from that!

The only thing is I dont have an account with them so I dont know what shipping to Ireland is!

Im getting the lot except the OS for €1,450.17

Can you tell me how much it costs for shipping to Ireland?

At the moment the shipping is £12.95!

Any ideas?

Thanks for replying a good few times btw

awhir

its around 24 pounds.

DirkVoodoo

komplett and overclockers.

Check prices between the two for each component you pick, you would be surprised to find that even though you incur higher shipping costs, the overall system cost including shipping may be lower.

Overclockers require 3 utilities bills/bank statements as i recall, i had to fax them. Not exactly a deal breaker, but just be prepared for the email requesting em.

dazftw

DirkVoodoo wrote:

Overclockers require 3 utilities bills/bank statements as i recall, i had to fax them. Not exactly a deal breaker, but just be prepared for the email requesting em.

I dont want to have to deal with that stuff lol I wouldnt mind if it was my credit card like but its not!

Rob_T

I'm building pretty much exactly the same rig as you. The big thing for me about the 680i mobos is they have 3x 16bit pcie slots so the 8800gts cards won't be hamstrung when you go sli.

One thing about the cpu, i've decided to save myself a few yoyos by taking the 6400 instead of the 6600 as all the articles I've read say it will overclock really well and is capable of 6800 extreme speed.

dazftw

I know ive read articles on that also and like I thought about it then thought I don't really know much about overclocking(at the moment) so I going go with that one so as not to have less power while learning how to do it...

If that makes sense..

dazftw

Im contemplating the 6400 now over the 6600 cause I can afford the 640MB version of the GTS that way....

plonk

I was bored and made this up on hardwareersand.de, i think khannie reccommended it and it seems to be much cheaper so



LG Flatron L204WT-SF, 20,1", 5ms, 2000:1, DVI

245,75 €
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC, NVIDIA 8800GTS, 320MB, PCI-Express

275,11 €
ATX-Netzteil Corsair 620W 620 Watt

124,06 €
Thermaltake Kandalf schwarz VA9000BWS ohne Netzteil

141,53 €
Samsung SH-S182M Retail

40,68 €
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Box 4096Kb, LGA775, 64bit, Conroe

284,99 €
2048MB-Kit OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum Revision 2 Dual Channel, CL4

151,77 €
Samsung HD400LJ 400GB 7200, 8 MB Cache

90,65 €
Zalman CNPS9700 LED CU Sockel 775/754/939/940/AM2

42,55 €
EVGA nForce 680i SLI, Sockel 775 nForce680i SLI, ATX

228,23 €
Sum: 1.625,32 € 1)



I know when i save up 700euro ill be buying that psu gpu and monitor

awhir

ur gettin a 20" in this and its a good screen too

dazftw

Ive already made up a new list!

dabs.ie

Antec Nine Hundred - €129.62

If I get this with no problems ill probably order more parts from them!

Memory-Configurator.com(very good site from the looks of it and its irish postage is €8.00)

OCZ 700 Watt PSU - € 147.62

OCZ GeForce 8800GTX - € 579.59

2Gb OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 SOUE - € 212.96

€70 cheaper than komplett on this for those three items! How does a OCZ GTX sound though?

komplett.ie or dabs.ie

Intel Core 2 duo 6600

Seagate Barracuda 320GB Sata

EVGA nForce 680i SLI

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit

Nec DVD/RW Combo Drive Thing!

komplett.ie - € 829.52 dabs.ie - €791.02 Saving €38.50 with dabs.ie over komplett!

All on a 19" for the moment.. will see how it goes..

What ya thinks?

dazftw

I just noticed theres a inno3D GTX on dabs.ie which is cheaper again I could go for depending on the case how it comes along!

awhir

well i would go for a well known brand like xfx or ocz,evga since they will give a better warrenty.

all looks nice man but no 20:(............................lol

dazftw

Yea I will probably get a more used brand for the gtx this was a quick cheap summary for all the stuff!

Im really happy with the ram and PSU anyway cause its cheaper alot cheaper than other prices ive found on them!

I dont need a credit card to buy them also which is good!