Major Upgrade :D

Tyrant^

Ello !!!!

Its my birthday on sunday and i've decided I might just want to max out my credit card on the following items. I would appreciate your feedback! Thanks! :rolleyes:


Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition

Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)

EVGA nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB Cache x 2 for RAID 0

OCZ GameXStream 850w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply

At the moment my current Grapics card, Sound card, and Memory I think are decent enough for games at the moment.

Grapics: GeForce 7950 GX 2

Sound:
Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

MEMORY(Not too sure on this. Any program that can give detail on Memory?):
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C5 TwinX (2x1GB)

OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit

4096MB Total

Tyrant^

I just thought I would add what im upgrading from !

Intel Pentium 4 541 "LGA775 Prescott" 3.2GHz

MSI P4N Diamond

Some cheap ass IDE Hard disks, windows XP, and a 500Watt PSU.

L31mr0d

should really put this in the building and upgrading section. Oh and I'd invest in some good SATAII drives and spend the saved money on a better graphics card and maybe 2 more gigs of RAM.

Also you should note, Intel will be slashing its C2D prices at the end of April, You should wait another few weeks and then buy it.

TerrorFirmer

I wouldn't waste my money on a GX2. I'd get an 8800 instead, definitely. Also no need for that high rated a psu unless you're planning sli, could free up some cash to invest elsewhere.

Anti

Read his post, he already has the gx2.

TerrorFirmer

You know, I've been so bad for this lately - third for fourth time I've done that in the space of two or so days...

Anti

Hehe dont worry about it, i do it all the time.

Tyrant^

Thanks for the feedback !
Ive saved nearly 300 quid

Anti

Tyrant^ wrote:

Thanks for the feedback !
Ive saved nearly 300 quid

Thats good, i also would not bother with the raptorX drive, unless you like a really noisy pc. Even in raid i dont see that much of a improvement.

Save the money, and keep it for thr r600. As the 8800 series are a complete waste of money. Yeah i have them, but the only benifit i see is at stupidly high resolution or with mad levels of aa and af. So unlessyou have a nice big monitor its a waste of money.

dazftw

Yea im getting an 8800GTX.. I have a 19" now.. buy soon as I buy the pc im going save for a 22" and use the 19" for xbox

Im getting the same setup as you.. only im kinda annoyed I didnt go buy the 64bit windows and upgrade to more ram later...

challengemaster

Anti wrote:

Thats good, i also would not bother with the raptorX drive, unless you like a really noisy pc. Even in raid i dont see that much of a improvement.

Save the money, and keep it for thr r600. As the 8800 series are a complete waste of money. Yeah i have them, but the only benifit i see is at stupidly high resolution or with mad levels of aa and af. So unlessyou have a nice big monitor its a waste of money.

uhmz... the 8900's and the likes should be coming out around the same time as the r600 series. tbh, i'd say wait until both cards are out & benchmarked.

awhir

its not the 8900 its gona be the 98** series from what i have been reading .

the 8600 series is out soon which will overclock faster then a 8800gts.

c0y0te

Regarding Vista.... RUN AWAY, VERY FAST!!!!