Happy Happy Happy

So, I finally got around to ordering my new PC. Luckily today was when Q6600 G0s became available on Scan too :).

Teh beast:

• Antec P182
• Antec Quattro 850W (Some overkill but i'll be using it for future PC upgrades)
• Asus DVD-RW
• The 7in1 floppy drive thing on scan, forgot the make :P
• Thermalright Ultima-90i w/ 120mm Scythe S-Flex 1600RPM
• Intel Core2Quad Q6600 G0
• 2Gib Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 4-4-4-12 (Had this for a few months now, some may remember my old thread about it ^^)
• 2x 500Gb Samsung Spinpoint T166's
• Sapphire Radeon HD2900XT 512MiB
• Asus P5K
• Sennheiser PC161 Headphones
• 2GiB Corsair Mem stick for readyboost (But it's first use will be spreading the love of the BioShock to my nextdoor neighbour, who is currently a non-believer :surprised:)

So maybe this thread wasn't necessary but I wanted to say how happy I now am. My BioShock should arrive tomorrow (got dispatched this morning) and I will play with the Big Daddy for a few days I guess while I wait for the stuff to arrive :P. Then I shall experience it in all it's glory!

Hope you got the corsair voyager GT stick, blinding speed on that thing :D

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Originally Posted by Pob255

Hope you got the corsair voyager GT stick, blinding speed on that thing :D

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Aye I got this one: prplz.

Have fun wth your new toy:clapping: Make sure you put them all together properly!(no rush take your time cool down your head with ninja etc)Step up from your current rig must be enormous. I envy you:mrgreen::mrgreen:

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Originally Posted by notsobig

Have fun wth your new toy:clapping: Make sure you put them all together properly!(no rush take your time cool down your head with ninja etc)Step up from your current rig must be enormous. I envy you:mrgreen::mrgreen:

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Thanks :mrgreen:. And yeah, I'm looking forward to revisiting some of my old games after BioShock to see them in the glory I couldn't with my old system -- Stalker comes to mind (even with it's ATi prejudice :crazy:). Also looking forward to Quake Wars in 1280x1024 and some high settings; at the mo playing it at a nice framerate with textures on high (apart from terrain), the rest on medium -- at 800x600 mind :P.

nice, congrats :) It will eat stalker.

Nice 1T of disk space there too I notice :) Disk space used to drive me mad... Up until Christmas I had a grand total of 80 gig :crazy::lol:

It was a nightmare because my mp3 collection was about 60 gig... so every time I wanted to install something like a game, I would have to delete a bunch of stuff. It was a constant pain in the bum. With loads of space and its just such a joy :)

I certainly hope you are not getting th Asus P5K vanilla with that setup :D
P5K-E would be my choise.

Played Bioshock demo today on 2900XT - all at max @ 1280x768 (LCD TV). No glitches at all, but AA was not enabled. Looks like drivers/game demo bug :(
Anyway it looks and plays simply great
Good luck with your new toy :)

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Originally Posted by CooperXS

I certainly hope you are not getting th Asus P5K vanilla with that setup :D
P5K-E would be my choise.

Played Bioshock demo today on 2900XT - all at max @ 1280x768 (LCD TV). No glitches at all, but AA was not enabled. Looks like drivers/game demo bug :(
Anyway it looks and plays simply great
Good luck with your new toy :)

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Tbh with my current mobo, the K8V Deluxe, I found I use about 50% of the features on it so I figured, why spend more cash on features i'll never use, again ^^.

How much did it all set u bk m8? teasing with the idea of a new rig seeing as im working f/t atm

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Originally Posted by Merlin4458

How much did it all set u bk m8? teasing with the idea of a new rig seeing as im working f/t atm

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Hmmm off the top of my head I think it was £814 all together from Scan with Hexus free shipping, £157 from ocuk (psu and ultima-90i) and £73 on dabs for the RAM. That's including the Sennheiser PC161 headphones for £45 and a DVD-RW + 7in1 Floppy drive.

So altogether without the headphones I think £999, with them £1044. May be off by a few quid but the numbers above are very close to what I actually paid i'm sure :).

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Originally Posted by Nemz0r

Tbh with my current mobo, the K8V Deluxe, I found I use about 50% of the features on it so I figured, why spend more cash on features i'll never use, again ^^.

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P5K-E also includes Vdroop correction in BIOS settings which actually works. And power curcuitry is much stronger - just the thing for quad-cores if you will want to overclock it sometimes. All these things are missing on P5K vanilla. IMHO it is worth to add 30-40 quid for a proper mobo. Plus there are more things in the bundle and mobo looks lot sexier :D

Does ReadyBoost actually make a difference? I'm sure I read a review where they found ReadyBoost was completely pointless on systems with 2Gb+ RAM.

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Originally Posted by CooperXS

P5K-E also includes Vdroop correction in BIOS settings which actually works. And power curcuitry is much stronger - just the thing for quad-cores if you will want to overclock it sometimes. All these things are missing on P5K vanilla. IMHO it is worth to add 30-40 quid for a proper mobo. Plus there are more things in the bundle and mobo looks lot sexier :D

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Oki you win :p. Changing my P5K vanilla to P5K-E :rolleyes:.

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Originally Posted by badger

Does ReadyBoost actually make a difference? I'm sure I read a review where they found ReadyBoost was completely pointless on systems with 2Gb+ RAM.

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Not sure entirely but any boost is nice. I'll try it for a while without and then with. If they difference is so tiny it's unnoticable i'll just erm...well i'll just still use it :p, and use for data transport when needed ^^.