My Dream PC Build

[Spadez]

Im buying the rig of my dreams on monday. My budget was a thousand pounds, but ive gone a little over that. I cant bring myself to order the parts without running it through you guys first, i would hate to find out i wasted money or made bad choices after ive paid for all the parts. So here is my current line up:

RAM
(2x) OcUK 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit
Total: £129

Operating System
(1x) Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM
Total: £64

Main Harddrive
(2x) Western Digital Raptor 36GB WD360ADFD 10,000RPM
Total: £133

Content Harddrive
(1x) Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache
Total: £42

MotherBoard
(1x) EVGA nForce 680i SLi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Total: £176

Case
(1x) Lian-Li PC V1000 PLUS Aluminium Midi-Tower
Total: £129

PowerSupply
(1x) Corsair HX 520W ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CMPSU-520HXUK)
Total: £68

Graphics Card
(1x) OcUK GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
Total: £299

DVD Drive
(1x) Pioneer DVR-112DBK 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
Total: £19

CPU
(1x) Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB)
Total: £187

Additional Cooling
(1x) Arctic Cooling MX-1 Thermal Compound
Total: £5

(3x) Akasa Hard Disk Cooler
Total: £14

(1x) Acousti Ultra-Soft Arrowhead Fan Mounts
Total: £4

(2x) Akasa AK-171 Copper RAM Heatsinks
Total: £14

Grand Total
Total: £1,313.33

 

[killerkid]

why quad core? Go conroe if your a true gamer.

 

[Spadez]

I was told go for quad core since four cores at 2.4GHz = 9.6GHz whereas if i get say a 3GHz conroe with dual cores that only equals 6 GHz.

 

[killerkid]

if you look at it in terms like that then sure, why not everyone go quadcore instead of conroe. But how often are you going to be utilizing all of those cores at once? I can only think of 1 game thats not even released yet that supports quad core, and there arent going to be many after that.

if your into gaming, and by the looks of the sli cards you surely are, i would go with a nice say...e6750 and have no problems hitting over 3ghz.

 

[ps2cho]

I was told go for quad core since four cores at 2.4GHz = 9.6GHz whereas if i get say a 3GHz conroe with dual cores that only equals 6 GHz.

It doesn't work that way. That is just people trying to advertise well. If this is your "dream rig" then go for the quad if you can afford it.

 

[Stupid Boy]

I'm not really up-to-date on hardware, but I'm pretty sure that the larger Raptors are faster.

I doubt the fan mounts for case fans will help much if you use stock fans GPU and CPU fans. If you are overclocking or care about noise, get better GPU and CPU cooling. If you don't do that, you might as well mount the case fans with normal screws.

 

[AC3421]

Wow, this guy is pretty ignorant.

Did he really get banned?? lmao

 

[n0aH]

Wow, this guy is pretty ignorant.

Did he really get banned?? lmao

andd this is why he got banned
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=203858&page=3