is this a good pc build for a price?

Question

HI, I have just build my desktop PC and i want to know if this is any good. I spent exactly $781.86 for this with some mail in rebates. Is it woth a price?

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU overcloked to 3.2 GHz *stable
Asus P5L 945G motherboard
Arctic Cooler freezer 7 HF
OCZ 2GB 2x1GB DDR2 667 dual channel kit memory(OC to 750 MHz)
ATI Radeon X1950 XT GPU(VPU clock running at 640 MHz memory is 920 MHz) *stable
Onboard 5.1 audio device
WD Caviar 200GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb hard drive
Prowill Turbo Series RT550 ver.2.2 550W PSU
NZXT black window side panel mid tower case
Linkskey 51 in 1 card reader
2 of 120mm fan (front and back)
Logisys 12" dual cold cathode kit to glow inside PC
VANTEC SP-FC70-BL 70mm PCI Slot Case Cooler fan

Im a medium gamer and uses WXP pro sp2 32bit OS. *updated . I use my old Sony 16x double layer DVD/RW rom.

If you think this isn't any good pls explain why, and If you think this is good pls also explain why in your opinion.

I did the overlocking myself and uses some stability softwares like prime95,orthos, etc. and found no problem.

Answer 1

Definitely good at that price. Just watch your temps when ambient is high (summer time) since you have overclocked components there. 945G northbridge tends to run hot on passive cooling.

I would love to see your 3D Mark scores for such a nicely overclocked set up. Could probably turn me envious.

Answer 2

Well I think you did a good job on picking the parts. Building a desktop PC from scratch is the only way to go. 1st off you get exactly what you want(or can afford anyway!) & the price is right as there is no way you could buy a pre built PC with those specs for $782. I personally like AMD CPUs although I bought INTEL for my last build due to the price(I got a motherboard/dual core CPU combo) as the top end AMDs are great for gaming. You have plenty of RAM(I have 2GB as well) & a large hard drive. I also like ATI video cards & if I could have afforded a X1950XT I would have bought 1 instead of the used X850XT PE I ended up with. I have a SOUNDBLASTER LIVE sound card as its better than the onboard audio on my GIGABYTE mainboard. My build is a year old & with the SYSTEMAX TIGER gaming case & a ANTECH 350watt PSU I have $450 in my build. The reason its so low is that some of the parts were used but thankfully I have not had a single problem with it. I hope you enjoy your build & think it will last you a year or 2 before you will need to upgrade anything.

Answer 3

this did not include a monitor, so i presume this is your second pc then. about the overclocked cpu, did you do it urself or from the manufacturer . well overall i think the price is accepted and its would last about 5 to 10 years i hope it would last before outdated.

Answer 4

looks pretty good to me