CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115003
Mobo: ASUS P5W DH DELUXE
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131025
Ram: CORSAIR XMS2 2GB DDR2 1066
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145033
DVD Burner: NEC ND-3550A Black IDE/ATAPI - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16827152058
GPU: SAPPHIRE 100106L Radeon X850XT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814102688
Don't get me wrong about the video card choice - notice I choose a mobo that has crossfire support so when the ATI X1950XTX comes out I will surely want to buy that. But for now all I need is a budget GPU.
Do you think the ram is overkill? Also I am not looking for any kindof RAID setup so I also need a reliable, large HD. I also have a Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card that has not been used, and that is why I chose an Intel chipset over nForce4. Any suggestions/comments?
2006-09-01 07:55:38 · 9 answers · asked by [ΦΘΚ] PIяATE 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Yes well as you can probably imagine I am into heavy gaming and music creation, that type of thing.
2006-09-01 08:07:43 · update #1
It's a little pricey for my taste, but it seems like an excellent setup to me. I have a suggestion: get a 1.5 ghz processor to save money for a better gpu and after you get it you can overclock it to make it a 2 ghz processor. Just remember to buy a good cooling fan.
2006-09-01 08:03:45 · answer #1 · answered by Joseph W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, from this setup it looks like your goal is to get every frame out of those games possible. You can spend a lot less and get a machine that will play all the current games. I would go with a midrange processor, like a dual core athlon x2, and less expensive RAM. Save more money for an SLI config with 2 decent nvidia based cards. Maybe Radeon tends to have a slight edge, but are you trying to win a framerate contest, or get a good gaming experience?
2006-09-04 01:39:01 · answer #2 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely a decent setup. I like the motherboard, but I don't touch Radeon. I've got quite a few friends/customers that have had some terrible issues with their Radeon cards. The RAM is good, especially if you plan on keeping it for awhile and install Vista when it comes out. As for HD's, I stick with Western Digital and Seagate. Out of all the HD's I've bought, all my Western digitals and Seagates still work. what games you play?? I play Doom 3, ROE, Q4, and F.E.A.R. as DarkWolf. Hope to see ya!;)
2006-09-01 15:35:09 · answer #3 · answered by DarkWolf_1st 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forget that NEC burner. Get a Liteon SHM-165H6S DVD burner. It may not be the fastest, but I never owned a better drive. Use CloneDVD2 and AnyDVD by Slysoft to copy movies with the newest protections and SafeDisc 3 protected DVD's and CD's with CloneCD. It can burn the DVD +/- R9 DVD's so you can copy a movie just like it is on the original. Don't get a Toshiba DVD burner, I had one and it wouldn't copy anything.
2006-09-04 01:47:37 · answer #4 · answered by Jerry M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very much the same as what i am going to build apart from the graphics being the 850 xt im going to go with the 1900xt i dont have endles reasorces for going crossfire
the core 2 duo e6600 is the senseble choice befor going silly mony, and has the advantage of 4 m cache over the 6400
it all sounds very nice to me .
2006-09-04 19:16:39 · answer #5 · answered by maddnig 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have that video card and if you are getting and intel core duo and 2 gigs of ram you might want to step it up to a better graphics card
2006-09-01 15:00:38 · answer #6 · answered by Zane L 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You seem very conservative when it come to motherboard.Intel chip set is very stable,but boring for extreme gaming.
2006-09-03 19:31:03 · answer #7 · answered by Joe P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so, you should have said what you plan to do with the system? It's a lot of box to run email.
2006-09-01 15:04:50 · answer #8 · answered by mstrobert 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would just get value-select ram unless you want to do overclocking.
2006-09-01 15:02:58 · answer #9 · answered by Lo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋