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I'm building my brother a new rig for christmas, I've been looking into hardware for the last few days and reading reviews and posting on various PC forums. After some debate my specs changed drastically from an E6300 with 2GB on a P5B-D, to an E6600 with 1GB on a GB DS3. Here are my current decided specs;
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ (OCZ2G8001GK) 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2-800 PC2-6400 CL 5-5-5-12 Gold XTC Dual Channel Kit
Leadtek GeForce 7900 GS 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Hiper HPU-4M580 Type R 580W ATX2.2 PSU - Black
Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
Thermaltake VB1000BNS Soprano SuperMidi Tower - Black
And then optical drives and other small parts.
It comes to £630, which isnt too bad. He already has a nice Samsung 19" 920N screen, and an MX Revolution mouse.
He plays a lot of flight sims and plays games regularly, so this PC needs to be able to play new games. I am aware it will need a DX10 card at some point, but I'm waiting until they drop in price. Also, I would probably add an extra 1GB at some point when he wants to upgrade to Vista. I will be overclocking this rig, but not to its limits, a mild overclock to increase performance is all I think he needs.
Basically, I just want to make sure what I'm getting is good before I make the purchase. So opinions please
Thanks.
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
OCZ (OCZ2G8001GK) 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2-800 PC2-6400 CL 5-5-5-12 Gold XTC Dual Channel Kit
Leadtek GeForce 7900 GS 256MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
Hiper HPU-4M580 Type R 580W ATX2.2 PSU - Black
Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM
Thermaltake VB1000BNS Soprano SuperMidi Tower - Black
And then optical drives and other small parts.
It comes to £630, which isnt too bad. He already has a nice Samsung 19" 920N screen, and an MX Revolution mouse.
He plays a lot of flight sims and plays games regularly, so this PC needs to be able to play new games. I am aware it will need a DX10 card at some point, but I'm waiting until they drop in price. Also, I would probably add an extra 1GB at some point when he wants to upgrade to Vista. I will be overclocking this rig, but not to its limits, a mild overclock to increase performance is all I think he needs.
Basically, I just want to make sure what I'm getting is good before I make the purchase. So opinions please
Thanks.