Motherboard 99$ ECS nForce 570 SLIT-A Socket 775 Processor 528$Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67GHz Video Card 414$ EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS Memory 239$ combined Ultra 1024MB Hard Drive 359$ 750GB 1639$ total w/o shipping If you can think of anything to help or make better please post...
I'd recommend getting a small HD and putting the money in getting a 2GB ram. Just what I think though. Wait till john or xelink or someone more good with this answers lol. Also, what about PSU?
you need a PSU and a case. optical drives too also don't make the mistake of thinking more W on a PSU is the only thing which matters, there's a lot more try this for RAM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820220174 after rebate ti's cheaper and it's guaranteed to work in dual channel, on top of that, unless they've changed ICs it uses micron D9 ICs(the same stuff used in DDR2-1200 kits) CPU is also cheaper on newegg and zzf http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16819115002 http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...st=pricegrabber and the GFX card... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16814133188 the motherboard is OK. it won't overclock for ----, but you have near the top tiered CPU anyway... if you're willing you could spend 200$ less on the CPU and 70$ more on the motherboard and get a bit more power through overclocking(albiet if you wish to use SLi in the future, it will require hacked drivers and their future existence is not guaranteed) another idea is to wait a bit for qx6600 to be launched which is the quadcore version of the 6600. It's highly unlikely it would feal all that much faster because the cores would never really be all the utilized, but it's 550ish and I'd get one over an e6700 you need to learn to shop around... also, it really isn't worth the money to get the largest capacity harddrive, most systems can hold 4+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148140 one of those(same series harddrive too) would probably hold more than enough. By the time you need mroe capacity, just buy that 750GB for 1/3rd the price and add it to your system. 1TB(1000GB) are specced to be out by q2 this year by both seagate and hitachi so it's highly likely that there will eb price wars...
It could be cheaper to buy multiple hard drives at lower capacities. I would also recommend you choose another motherboard as ECS arent the greatest, and my ECS board, although its a SOCKET A, is not very good. Definitely look at another motherboard if you are wishing to overclock.
for a moderate OC, ECS boards are OK, I recall getting a s754 ECS board to a 10% OC around 2 years ago before I even really knew what I was doing. You could probably get a 20-30% OC remember, AMDs system bus has a multiplier on it and the memory controller is in the CPU. OCing is relatively non-board restrictive. That's why an $80 board can get you a 50% OC, but for a decent OC on the intel side you need to sheel out 2-3 times as much.
i have that motherboard and tbh it blows lol.... i ran out of money and needed a cheap SLI board.... if you are planing on overclocking past like 5-10% you wont want this board....
I'd personally suggest the E'6600 (save like ?$200), and go with this board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813136168 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16813131045 this case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811133154 this psu: http://www.case-mod.com/store/silverstone-...973.html?src=fr and yeah, get 2x 320GB Seagate Barracudas. 640GB for $200, or 750GB for $350. ? my NEC optical drives have been solid, no issues, so I recommend those. I really don't suggest the 8800, as I have seen the review of an R600 sample raping the G80. I also agree with Chris' memory choice. PS-- Nice to see you post again DeF. Gets my gift more views
