Hi guys, im currently looking into getting a new computer! and this is what im looking at: INTEL® Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2 X 2.93GHz) 1066MHz FSB/4MB Cache 4096 MB CORSAIR DDR2 800MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (4x1GB) ASUS® P5N32-SLI PREMIUM: Quad-SLI Ready, SATA RAID, 2 PCI MICROSOFT WINDOWS® MCE 2005 (inc. Remote, CD & license) Free Upgrade to Vista Premium with purchase of Windows MCE 2005 6 x USB 2.0 PORTS (4 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD 750GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7200rpm) 750GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7200rpm) 18x +/- DVD WRITER (8x +/- Dual Lyr) (Lightscribe) (40x CD-RW) 18x +/- DVD WRITER (8x +/- Dual Lyr) (Lightscribe) (40x CD-RW) 1024MB GEFORCE 7950GX2 (DUAL GPU) PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT 1024MB GEFORCE 7950GX2 (DUAL GPU) PCI Express + DVI + TV-OUT Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Fatal1ty FPS 7.1 + Black front kit ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (ETHERNET) 1.44MB - 3.5\" FLOPPY DISK DRIVE INTERNAL 57 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD FORMAT) Black Neon Bubble case + Neon Extreme Kit! 1000W Quiet Five Rail PSU incl Case Fan & CPU Cooler DIGITAL & ANALOG TV CARD (Watch Freeview / Terrestrial on PC) WIDESCREEN 22 INCH TFT SIL/BLACK 1680 x 1050 RES 5MS + DVI WIDESCREEN 22 INCH TFT SIL/BLACK 1680 x 1050 RES 5MS + DVI what do you think? and guess the price! Lol have fun
What do I think? Misguided. :/ You want 2x8800GTX in SLI and an Asus Striker Extreme (if you're lucky you'll get a board that works). One 30" is better than two 22s. Analouge TV??? Get a Terratec PCI-Express x1 dual tuner. Do you really need 1.5Tb of space and two DVD-RW and a FLOPPY DISK!? Get a 750GB and a 150GB Raptor X. 4GB DDR2 is a waste unless you're a photoshop whore, otherwise get get 2GB of Corsair Dominator, using 4 slots will make 1T unavailable. 1kW PSU? What make?? What CPU cooler? Make/model? What case? How are you cooling it?
4gb ram=no, 32bit windows don't make good use of it. btw, can't wait till your rig burns, because of the crappy psu that you have chosen.
Why quad sli, like bindi says get a 30". The second two cards will barely be used. Quad Sli is scripted to run only at resolutions over 1600 *1200. Because the perfomance actualy can decrease i think when the resolutions are low. 8800GTX or GTS SLi is better.
PSU=Enermax Galaxy EGA1000EWL 1000W Power Supply PSU 4gb for 4gb ram sake, i want it fast if you can get a better spec for speed then tell me please! and gameplay must be awsome! so instead of the screens can i get a 37" LCD TV? will that work!
no, get 30 inch apple cinema display, or dell 3007fpw - they run resolutions beyond HDTV. Get 2gb corsair dominator instead of 4gb of ram, because windows xp is kind of limited to 3gb of ram. as stated above, get 8800 series cards, basically it's always better to run the newest generation, especially that 8800 are dx10 cards already afair\ get some decent case, like antec p180 (can be a little bit too small though) or lian-li pc343 if it is not too big.
If you buy 7series cards youll get dx9 graphics, 8800 will give you DX10 graphics 8800 is optimised to larger screens
The modifications to the rig above. QX6700 Striker 2GB Corsair Dominator 2 8800GTS/X's in SLi 750GB Storage, 150GB Raptor 1kW DECENT brand PSU. Preferably something by PCP&C or Seasonic. 2 DVD-RW 30" TFT X-Fi card
Probs a Quad core (if you can be bothred setting affinities) For gaming primaraly probably dual core so the X6800 as opposed to the kentsfield QX6700. A good board like the Striker by asus. A good stable powersupply, SLI 8800GTX (ideally but you might wanna leave a slot open) or buy two 8800GTS. 2gb of dominator pc8888 or wait for teh pc9*** by Corsair in the form of dominator. However it's essentially the same as the pc8888 just warrentied for that bit more clock. a raptor 150gb or 74gb for game .exe's and a 750gb for storage on things which dont need such high access rates.
Ram - windows can see 4gig, but can only give 2gig of ram per thread -- multithreaded apps have no issue with this so get what ever ram you want -- its not really a huge thing. and go with what ever everyone else has said -- get a raptor instead of the second 750
Right new spec, is this any better? ASUS STRIKER EXTREME S775 NF680I-SLI ATX SND+2XGLN+U2+1394 ESATA IN - 90-MIB140-G0EAY00T 2GB (2x1GB) CorsairTwinX XMS2 Dominator,DDR2 PC2-6400,240 Pins, NonECC Unbuffered, CAS 4-4-4-12, EPP Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93ghz - Skt775 Fsb1066 4mb Cache retail boxed Seagate Barracuda 7200.10, 750GB, SATA 3Gb/s, 7200 RPM Samsung SH-S182M 18x DVD+/-R LightScribe DVD Writer ASUS EN8800 GTX/HTDP/768M GF8800 GTX 768MB DDR3 PCI-E DVI-I*2 HDTV IN - 90-C3CFP0-PUAY00T Creative Soundblaster X-FI FATAL1TY FPS Sound Card Terratec Cinergy 2400i DT - Twin DVB-T Digital Card PCIe slot (x1, x4 or x16) ENERMAX GALAXY EGA1000EWL 1000W A/PFC RETAIL Lian-Li PC-G50B Black ATX Case, No PSU The Dell™ UltraSharp™ 3007WFP 30-inch Wide-screen Flat Panel LCD Monitor
Wheres the raptor? Also where do you REALLY need a soundcard, i remember in the old days when intergration wasnt really that common you did, but will you really need it when the board already is quite effective. Why pc6400 (800) ram, why not the pc8888. (1111) unless you plan on clocking the ram up to 8888
Bearing in mind that the Striker is having constant BIOS updates to be stable, as is every 680i board atm. The EVGA and BFG versions are on the beta2 BIOS (check Hardocp.com front page) to try to address SATA/memory corruption issues, but really it's the only SLI chipset worth having for Core2 atm. You're missing a Raptor X 150GB from the list and another 8800GTX for SLI with oooooodles of Antialising possibility. You want PC7200-PC8888 ram if you want to serious overclock, as well as including some sort of massive LGA heatsink. We use Zalman or Scyth in the labs and get good results. X-Fi is absoultely necessary for games, onboard just does not compare.
I need to study the way which audio is handled on mobo vs expansion. I never really noticed a difference from before i got my x-fi and after on my p5n32 sli se
Drop the Enermax Galaxy. It's not exactly the greatest, due to the number of rails, the length.. If you don't particularly mind about noise, try the Silverstone Olympia 1kw. It's rather loud, but it's very high quality, and it's a single 80a rail.
