silentsammy
Limp Gawd
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- Feb 4, 2006
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Its been a few years since my last build so I would greatly appreciate any critiques you guys can make to my proposed system. I've been trying to see what you guys have been saying in the other threads so hopefully i did my homework ok.
I am a gamer and will be doing a lot of gaming on this system. I probably will not be overclocking it, if I do it will be a mild overclock at most.
I already have a new case with a 700w power supply, a copy of vista ultimate and for a monitor I'll be using the Westy 37".
Here's what I was thinking for the rest:
Motherboard: EvGA nforce 680i (NF68) $219
- I really don't know if this mobo is overkill for me or not...I won't be doing SLI right away but may buy another card in the near future.
CPU: Intel core2 quad Q6600 $289
- may overclock it later ... not more than 3 Ghz though. I'm just not that daring
RAM:
4 GB (2 x 2GB) Patriot Extreme: $254
Video Card:
EVGA 8800 GTX $534
Hard Drive:
500 GB Western Digital $109
Sound Card:
None??? I'm not sure what to do here. I was going to get an X-Fi extremegamer but I've been reading that this thing doesn't get along with vista. Should I bother with a sound card at this point? Wait a bit? Get something besides the x-fi's?
Other stuff: optical drive, speakers, etc... i'm not too worried about.
Thanks in advance for any input you guys can give me!
I am a gamer and will be doing a lot of gaming on this system. I probably will not be overclocking it, if I do it will be a mild overclock at most.
I already have a new case with a 700w power supply, a copy of vista ultimate and for a monitor I'll be using the Westy 37".
Here's what I was thinking for the rest:
Motherboard: EvGA nforce 680i (NF68) $219
- I really don't know if this mobo is overkill for me or not...I won't be doing SLI right away but may buy another card in the near future.
CPU: Intel core2 quad Q6600 $289
- may overclock it later ... not more than 3 Ghz though. I'm just not that daring
RAM:
4 GB (2 x 2GB) Patriot Extreme: $254
Video Card:
EVGA 8800 GTX $534
Hard Drive:
500 GB Western Digital $109
Sound Card:
None??? I'm not sure what to do here. I was going to get an X-Fi extremegamer but I've been reading that this thing doesn't get along with vista. Should I bother with a sound card at this point? Wait a bit? Get something besides the x-fi's?
Other stuff: optical drive, speakers, etc... i'm not too worried about.
Thanks in advance for any input you guys can give me!