what u think??

[MaD FOr iT]

hi guys iam after building a new pc for gaming ready for the next gen. of dx10 games, plz tell us what u think or if anything needs changing?

Antec Nine Hundred Ultimate Gamer
ASUS P5K Intel iP35 Socket 775 Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Zalman CNPS9500-AT Intel LGA775 (cooler)
Patriot 4GB PC2-6400 Extreme Performance (2x2GB)
OCZ 600W GameXStream SLI Ready PSU
74GB Western Digital Raptor SATA 16MB
Creative X-Fi Xtreme Fatal1ty Pro
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768Mb PCI-E
22\" LG L226WTQ Widescreen 2ms
NEC Optiarc 18x DVD-RW RAM SATA Black

[Micky007]

yea seems fine, i like your choice of Memory, was thinking of buying that aswell.

One thing i would get rid of though is the WD Raptor hard drive. I have 2 150GB Raptors and they make so much noise and there isnt really that much speed diffrence at all. (i have them on Raid 0 and its same speed as just 1 of them)

Thanks

[Hosser]

[quote:2eab49c96d=\"Micky007\"]yea seems fine, i like your choice of Memory, was thinking of buying that aswell.

One thing i would get rid of though is the WD Raptor hard drive. I have 2 150GB Raptors and they make so much noise and there isnt really that much speed diffrence at all. (i have them on Raid 0 and its same speed as just 1 of them)

Thanks

EDIT: also for £10 more you can upgrade your cpu to 2.67Ghz http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CPUs+%2F+Processors/Intel/Core+2+Duo/Intel+Core+2+Duo+E6700+2.67GHz+%28775%29+?productI d=23827[/quote:2eab49c96d]

Agreed with the Raptor advice - bin it and get a 500GB disk or two.

And Mickey, that would be a CPU downgrade - he picked a Quad-core.

[Micky007]

[quote:a1603b0010=\"Hosser\"][quote:a1603b0010=\"Micky007\"]yea seems fine, i like your choice of Memory, was thinking of buying that aswell.

One thing i would get rid of though is the WD Raptor hard drive. I have 2 150GB Raptors and they make so much noise and there isnt really that much speed diffrence at all. (i have them on Raid 0 and its same speed as just 1 of them)

Thanks

EDIT: also for £10 more you can upgrade your cpu to 2.67Ghz http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/CPUs+%2F+Processors/Intel/Core+2+Duo/Intel+Core+2+Duo+E6700+2.67GHz+%28775%29+?productI d=23827[/quote:a1603b0010]

Agreed with the Raptor advice - bin it and get a 500GB disk or two.

And Mickey, that would be a CPU downgrade - he picked a Quad-core.[/quote:a1603b0010]

Oh sh** yea, didnt notic it was just a Core 2 Duo and not Quad. My mistake.

[MaD FOr iT]

i do like the raptor though i got 1 in this machine they are a vfast drive + i dont mind the noise, only prob is they can get hot

[Cheule]

You don't mention your OS choice but you'll currently need Vista as M$ state that DX10 will only run on that. The gits.

[cleggypdc]

I'd dual boot vista and XP so you can test out your hardware in XP first.

Get two 500gb seagates
http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Serial+ATA/500GB+Seagate+Barracuda+SATA2+16MB+?productId=2620 1

Setup a 32k striped array (RAID0) and your in business :D, takes a bit more time to load windows as most of the files are smaller than 32k but for loading games and movies its the dogs!