Hey,
It's been a long while since I last built a PC but I am looking to build an entire new system from scratch, I had a read around and came up with the following spec for 1350 (including vista ultimate OEM which isnt listed below). I am building a new gaming rig for myself but the ambient temp where I live can get quite high so cooling is very important, because of this I won't be overclocking. Incidentally I went with this particular mobo because of the accelerated hardware RAID. Disk space isnt a problem as this pc will only be for playing games, I will be using this old one with a large raid array as my filestore.
NOTE: REVISED SPEC, SEE POST 12 IN THIS THREAD!!! I am leaving this spec here purely for comparison.
Can I get people's oppinions please so I don't end up making daft buying decisions?
NOTE: I absolutely want to go Nvidia as the better linux support is very important to me.
- Motherboard: EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 NF680i
- CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Conroe Core
- CPU Cooling: Asus V-Nardo for Intel Core 2 Extreme
- Graphics Card: 768Mb XFX 8800GTX, Extreme, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1900 MHz, GPU 600 MHz, 128 Stream, 2x DVI/HDTV
- GCard Cooling: Zalman ZM80D-HP Silent Dual Heatpipe VGA Heatsink
- Memory: 2Gb (2X1Gb) Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 Dominator, CAS 5-5-5-15
- Mem Cooling: Corsair Dominator Airflow Fan
- Hard drives: (In raid 1) 2 x 160 Gb Seagate ST3160815AS Barracuda
- Case: Xclio Casetek X-Blade (Stacker)
- Case Fans: 4 x 120mm Xclio 16 Blade Quiet Cooling Fan (2 front, 2 back)
- PSU: 600W Tagan TG-600-U35XL Easycon XL Modular
- DVD drive: LG GSA-H50LBRL
- Floppy: Mitsumi FA404M 1.44 Black FDD+Int USB2 7 in 1 Card Reader