Boys and girls,
The time has arrived for me to build my next beast, that i will be ordering today, but before i do, i'd like any brief comments on the setup, as this works well for me in the past (Yeh i've asked this before, but i changed my mind loads and had financial problems heh)
My main concern is the whole SLI/Crossfire bollocks. I'll be going for an nvidia 8800 card, but not an nForce chipset mobo, as apparently these suck ass compared to the p35, so was unsure if there's a performance hit there with a single card on a P35 Mobo (two GTS's aint gonna happen heh).
So here we are in full:
PSU: 620W Coolermaster Real Power M620 Modular PSU SLi, PCI-E, SATA, 80%+ Eff' ATX 12V V2.3 EPS 12V V2.91 £69.90
Cracking PSU and brand, modular only for me.
RAM: 2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, DHX £40.70
Enough said.
CASE: Antec 900 - Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer Case with 200m Top Fan w/o PSU £69.97
Could house several polish workers and still have room left, stunning case.
MOBO: Asus P5KC, iP35, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2/DDR3 1066/1333/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX £75.61
Asus,combo,P35.
FAN: Zalman CNPS9700-LED Super Aero Flower Cooler (775/AM2/754/939/940) £34.65
Best Fan cooler money can buy imo. (Though the NT one is slightly better)
GFX: 512MB EVGA 8800GTS, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), Mem 1940 MHz, GDDR3, GPU 650 MHz, Dual DVI/HDTV, + Crysis Game £211.37
Going to buy Crysis anyway, so realistically, the card for me is , say £180. the GT is like £165, so worth the extra £15, and i can't SLI them on that mobo anyway.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600 G0 SLACR, 95W, S775, 2.40 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 8MB Cache, OEM £152.74
Amazing CPU, but fancied the wolfdale 45nm C2D's at higher frequencies and bit cheaper, though i doubt i'd upgrade CPU for another while, and quads may be more needed eventually, and the wolfdales are out of stock, so this is probably best.
CD: ASUS 2014L1T 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, x14 DVD-RAM, SATA, Lightscribe, Black OEM £18.20
O/S: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32Bit 1Pk OEM (DVD) £58.86
More stuff will be optimized for this i imagine and it looks cool, mixed reviews on it. When the 64-bit is stable and not shit i'll get that, as it supports more than 3.5GB RAM.
£744 with delivery
A couple of things not perfect there, but overall think it's a very capable setup. Any comments greatly appreciated before i take the plunge shortly. Ta.