Soon to be my PC

[apollo0117]

HI guys and girls I am bulding a system soon and i want some feed back on my parts


-Intel Q6600
-EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX
-XFX 8600GTS
-CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4
-OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI ATX12V 700W Power Supply
-Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
-Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
-LITE-ON 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model LH-20A1L-05

Thanks this is all $ 1,166.15
from Newegg.com

Please tell me what you think

[wickedestman]

man honestly...wait a lil bit.. wait til november maybe december.. but til november at least... i was gonna build a system to celebrate call of duty 4 and NFS Pro street,etc. but its all held up.. Intel and AMD will be releasing new CPUs and Nvidia and ATI..new GPUs.. very very soon and i guess its worth the wait...
if you realize im a newbie too! well on this forum.. but they suggest the 8800GTS 320 MB at least.. i was gonna go with that 8600GTS but the 8800GTS far out weighs the competition aka ATI.. i love the rest of the config tho... but as others suggest..."Ajmukon" and "saphalline" the bosses and the most helpful it seem on this forum.. not to forget "artp209" hehe thanks to them... they say wait and they have won me over.. even tho the prices of the new goodies might be high when released ( well some)... see it this way.. the stuff you willing to buy now will get cheaper ;)

[George Hallam]

wickedestman some good advise there ;)

yep definitely go for a 8800*** i have been looking at benchmarks and the new 8800GT is coming soon and that fills the gap between the 8800GTS and the GTX and it looks cheaper and takes less power..

November - January will have a new line of CPU's, MOBO's and GPU's so is there any point in buying stuff that will be outdated in a month ;) wait... see if you like the new stuff (and its price) then make your decision


"Ajmukon" and "saphalline"

hehe what about me :D not had much time to post lately :(

[Ajmukon]

hehe what about me :D not had much time to post lately :(
well, i am always online except for the weekends..
;)

yes and wait- the new chips are to be released soon and you do not want to be saying "shoot, i should have waited"

[apollo0117]

when do the new chips come out and whats the best buy for your money on the 8800GTS.


Sweet.:)

[Ajmukon]

i have heard November 11 2007 (From Intel), but i have conflicting reports that state Jan 08 (from Wikipedia)

[apollo0117]

i have one problem with uping the graphix card im on a tyte buget of $1,190.
:)

[Ajmukon]

the new GPU's will be mid-range and cheap(ish)

[George Hallam]

heres a price for a 8800gt

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10007125

looks nice :D

[artp209]

Alpollo, you don't say for what you intend to use the new computer. The 8600GTS will provide good quality graphics, but I would want to give upgrading the video card priority for 3D gaming. If you consider frame rate of action displays, the 8800GTS is a big jump in performance and actually results in less cost per frame displayed in a second. If you don't plan to play the high end games, then it would be wasted money. In any event, you may have lots of options if the prices come down next month as predicted.

[apollo0117]

the computer is for a gaming rig and i found out that i can aford the 8800gts 320mb card witch makes me rely happy:) .

[66miranda]

Hey I think you can have a look at the AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ 3.2GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor :
http://www.dealstudio.com/searchdeals.php?deal_id=61631
And this Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131013

[apollo0117]

i have always used intel for my computers but thanks i looked at it and the 6400+ is nice but i think i will sick with the Q6600.

[Ajmukon]

The AMD CPUs are old! :eek: And the newest CPU- Barcelona- comes out next month :eek: in stages.

stick with intel for now. what you have selected seems good.
please post LINKS to those parts so that we may look at exactly what you are looking at.
Remember, in the next few weeks, these prices WILL change- so just create a list, but do not buy until late Nov.

[apollo0117]

here are some of the links
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188013&Tpk=N82E16813188013

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150171&Tpk=N82E16814150171

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017&Tpk=N82E16819115017

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129021&Tpk=N82E16811129021

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341002&Tpk=N82E16817341002

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824254005&Tpk=N82E16824254005

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145034&Tpk=N82E16820145034

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822144701&Tpk=N82E16822144701

that all the parts i am looking at. :)

[Ajmukon]

all good.
And the best part is: prices will decrease a bit next month
you may want to change the GPU to the 8800 GT 512MB

[apollo0117]

what with the PCI-E 2.0 will it work in a PCI-E 16X slot the 8800gt has PCI-2.0 and most mother boards have PCI-E 16X.

[Ajmukon]

I have no idea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express
- says PCIe 2.0 is backward compatible with PCIe 1.1.. but not whether it is forward compatible.

[apollo0117]

is the graphix card the only thing that i should change or not?

[artp209]

is the graphix card the only thing that i should change or not?

It's the only thing that concerned me on your original post.

[saphalline]

First of all, it's called PCIe x16, not 16x. The number-x is for AGP, as in AGP 8x. The x-number is for PCIe, as in PCIe x1. Nitpicky perhaps, but the whitepapers are very specific!!

Secondly, PCIe is scalable and bidirectionally compatible. A PCIe 1.x vid card will work in a PCIe 2.x slot and vice versa. A PCIe 1.x vid card will also work in a PCIe 3.x slot when that spec is finalized, and 4.x, and so on until PCIe is replaced. That was one of the primary requirements of the new expansion bus when candidates were being considered all those years ago. The actual pin assignments for PCIe stay the same throughout the scalable spec, only the bandwidth per data pin changes. That also means the power output of PCIe will never change, but so far that hasn't been a problem.

So yes, you can put a PCIe 2.0 x16 vid card (like the 8800 GT) into a PCIe 1.x x16 slot. It works just fine, like it's supposed to. You can also put an older PCIe 1.x x16 vid card (like a Radeon X600) into a new mobo with a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot. I love it when they make things that work! :D Much better than AGP!

[Ajmukon]

First of all, it's called PCIe x16, not 16x. The number-x is for AGP, as in AGP 8x. The x-number is for PCIe, as in PCIe x1. Nitpicky perhaps, but the whitepapers are very specific!!

Secondly, PCIe is scalable and bidirectionally compatible. A PCIe 1.x vid card will work in a PCIe 2.x slot and vice versa. A PCIe 1.x vid card will also work in a PCIe 3.x slot when that spec is finalized, and 4.x, and so on until PCIe is replaced. That was one of the primary requirements of the new expansion bus when candidates were being considered all those years ago. The actual pin assignments for PCIe stay the same throughout the scalable spec, only the bandwidth per data pin changes. That also means the power output of PCIe will never change, but so far that hasn't been a problem.

So yes, you can put a PCIe 2.0 x16 vid card (like the 8800 GT) into a PCIe 1.x x16 slot. It works just fine, like it's supposed to. You can also put an older PCIe 1.x x16 vid card (like a Radeon X600) into a new mobo with a PCIe 2.0 x16 slot. I love it when they make things that work! :D Much better than AGP!
well, since i wasn't sure bout that, i did not say anything to the contrary.

and now that i know, i will spread the knowledge..