Vowles starts his next computer- 2008 PROOF!

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » January 26th, 2007, 10:14

Well... my old pc (Which was a beast in 2006) after some stuble upgrades(Video...ram...) isn't cutting. Sooo I've decided its FLUFFEH COMPUTER BUILD TIEM!

Case:ThermalTake Kandalf LCS VA4000SWA (Water Cool Kit included. Will be used for Chipset,VGA and CPU!)
Motherboard:Asus Striker Extreme 680i SLI (1333 FSB Conroe)
CPU:Intel Duo Core E6300 (Overclocked)

PSU:Enermax Galaxy Modular 1000W
Graphic: XFX GeForce® 8800 GTX 768MB PCI
RAM: Corsair Dominator Series Twin2X2048-8888C4DF x2 (4gig!)
OS:Fista Pro Ultimate or w/e its called.

Total Cost: Around £1200 2ram Or £1600 with 4 gig ram

The case is £230 but I may be getting it in exchange for web hosting for life. Weee hopefully I can bargin some of the other parts too!

Any ideas or changes you would do?

Ticks inditate what I have so far :D

Tested on my mates Asus Commando thus thermal paste I failed to remove!

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 26th, 2007, 10:24

Holy crap, that's some money you're spending! Might as well stick another graphics card in there and have them in SLI

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » January 26th, 2007, 10:27

Untill the 8800GTXs come down a bit in price thats not really a option! (A extra 40,000 pennies!)

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » January 26th, 2007, 10:46

That seems like a hell of a lot of money for that kit, you could get a prebuilt PC with a quad core for that money!

Edit:

http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk

£2553.00 ex. VAT
£2999.78 in. VAT
(before all applicable rebates)
Case: NZXT LEXA Tower 400W Case W/ Side-panel Window
CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 @ 2.66GHz 1066FSB 8MB L2 Cache EM64T
Motherboard: (Quad-Core Supports) Asus Striker Extreme nForce 680i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard
Memory: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Memory w/ Heat Spreader)
Video Card: NEW!!! NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB 16X PCI Express Video Card
Video Card 2: NEW!!! NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB 16X PCI Express Video Card
Monitor & LCD: NONE
Hard Drive: Single Hard Drive (1TB (500GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
Data Hard Drive: NONE
Optical Drive: SONY DUAL FORMAT 18X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)
Optical Drive 2: NONE
Sound: New! Creative Labs X-FI Elite Pro 24-BIT PCI Sound Card

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 26th, 2007, 10:51

Looks pretty nice, basically the same as my current machine

Spec:
Asus Striker Extreme
Core 2 duo e6600 (currently somewhere around 3ghz I think)
Corsair XMS2-8500 2x1GB
7900GT (upgraded to 8800 or R600 depending which is better)
Supermicro 5 Bay SATA Backplane
WD 500GB enterprise jobbie
Seagate barracuda 300GB 16mb cache
Samsung SATA 18x dvd burner
Enermax Galaxy 1kw

I'd skip the 4gb of rams right now (the rev1 strikers have trouble with 4 sticks atm)

Infact, as nice as the striker is, i'd wait until a newer revision comes out as there's still a few annoying niggles with them (weird voltage stuff when overclocking, poor stability with more than 2 sticks of ram, various other weirdys.

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » January 26th, 2007, 10:56

Hmm cheers Berk Ill look into the problems in a second.
Reason I got the E6300 is I got it on the cheap(£80) and its overclocks well and I'm waiting for Quadcore to come down in price a bit.

How well does you system do in games Berk?

Edit:Google is bias and telling me its good and only the found problem was SATA drives coruppting on Nvidia/EVGA boards not the ASUS ones or something! :D

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » January 26th, 2007, 11:02

Vowles wrote:Hmm cheers Berk Ill look into the problems in a second.
Reason I got the E6300 is I got it on the cheap(£80) and its overclocks well and I'm waiting for Quadcore to come down in price a bit.

How well does you system do in games Berk?

Similar Spec to mine:

E6300 @2.8ghz OC'd
2x GB Corsair Premium matched RAM
Leadtek PX7950GX2 TDH
Tagan Turbojet 900w Quad SLI certified PSU

at the moment i get just shy of 8000 3dmark 06 points.

Picking up an 8800GTX tommorow after selling my old pc.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 26th, 2007, 11:02

It does very well, there's some 3dmark stuff in then 3dmark thread down there a little.

tis very much held back by the graphics now, but the rest of the machine handles anything i can throw at it.

it'd probably appreciate a raptor too, but that's for later

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » January 26th, 2007, 16:47

http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Chas ... _index.asp

Which colour! I just cant decide!

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 26th, 2007, 16:50

not really a fan of either, but black is always right.

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » January 26th, 2007, 17:00

I was leaning towards black. As for in theside... blue or green.. or both? :D (LEDs,Water Pipes ect.!).

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 26th, 2007, 17:01

BLACK.

EVERYTHING MUST BE BLACK.

or just not green, it's so over done now.

cashy · Post by **cashy** » January 26th, 2007, 17:15

BLUE! AND GREY!

Post by **TezzRexx** » January 26th, 2007, 23:41

MAGENTA

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » January 27th, 2007, 0:30

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:not really a fan of either, but black is always right.

This.

That case is way too overstated,but then again from the looks of that spec, the whole pc looks pretty overstated

. Very sensible choices, with the CPU, 1 G80, and I agree that 2Gb RAM will be more than enough for the next 6months (especially as it's so easy to upgrade). Go for it, I take it you're sticking with current peripherals (Mouse, keyboard, monitor etc)?

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » January 27th, 2007, 9:24

Aye, my keyboard(logitech media) is slightly diffrent in its positions to other keyboards and makes me mess up now on other peoples. My mouse is a Razer Copperhead and my harddrive/soundcard is fine for now. Which case (Super Tower!) would you suggest then mateys! Arrr

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 27th, 2007, 10:31

I would have thought a case comes down to how big it is and personal preference on how it looks. I've got a Thermaltake case and I think it's very good - easy to get at, spacious, plenty of drive bays, everything quick release. I like the look - it goes with the rest of my silver/blue theme and it's not too gaudy.

Personally then, I'd stick with what you've got. If you've a Copperhead mouse then maybe go for the black one with orange lights in it to stay with that theme.

Vowles · Post by **Vowles** » January 28th, 2007, 9:12

MWahah I found an american blokey who will ship me stuff at like half the price! £230 for 8800 GTX not £390! :O.
Asus Striker for around £100. Buut shipping fee's will add about £25 but then its still monies saved! God Bless America and its high dollar to pound conversion :D

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » January 28th, 2007, 11:05

cashy wrote:BLUE! AND GREY!

BEIGE!
/old school blog

Post by **ProfHawking** » January 28th, 2007, 14:25

Anhamgrimmar wrote:
BEIGE!
/old school blog

Yes this!! Build it inside an ancient desktop case. Complete with "Designed for windows 3.1" sticker.