Hi im making a gaming system at xmas and my budget is around £1100. Ive made a list of components and just wondering if anybody has any advice, whether anything should be changed etc. thanks .Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, Socket 775, 2.4 GHz, 1066MHz FSB, Conroe Core, 4MB Cache . 256MB XFX 7900GS Extreme, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1550 MHz, GPU 525 MHz, 20 Pipes .2Gb (2X1Gb) CorsairTwinX XMS2, DDR2 . ASUS P5WDG2-WS i975X, S775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 800, SATA I / II, SATA RAID, ATX . 750W Silverstone ST75F modular, SLi Quad +12V rail . 400 Gb Samsung HD400LJ Spinpoint T, SATA300, 7200 rpm, 8MB Cache . Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro - P4 up to 4.4GHz - S775 Dual Core / Core2Duo Ready . LiteOn LH-18A1H 18X DVD+/-RW/RAM Lightscribe black internal . case = Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK By the way this will be my first pc that ive made myself so im a complete novice at this. Also i do plan to upgrade the Graphics card when DX10 Cards become more common and cheaper
That's a very excellent rig and I think you're right on with those components. You might not need that beefy a PSU unless you plan on going SLI sometime but it never hurts to be prepaired I guess. DX 10 cards will be very available and much cheaper this summer and we'll see a handful of games that take advantage of the techology in some form (though mostly though updates). I'd concider getting a 7900GT, 7950GT, or X1900XT card over the GS, in my experience the prices are very similar (at least in the states) and you'll notice a good performance increase, both the 7900GT and 7950GT have 24 pipes which makes a pretty dramatic difference and the X1900XT has shaders galore. But the GS is a great card that'll run any modern game (with the exception of Flight Sim X which nothing runs well for some reason) very well so it's you're choice.
Thanks. I read reviews on the X1900XT and many people stated the same problem " that it overheated alot". every review i read for the 7900gs was 5*/5*. I'll look into the 7900gt then, thanks
So is this Graphics card better than the other one that i listed? 256Mb XFX 7900GT Standard, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1370MHz, GPU 470MHz, 24Pipes
Yeah that card's better, it has a little lower clockspeeds (which could easily be bumped up if you so desired) but the extra 4 pipelines will more than make up for it so it'll show a good 15%+ speed boost over the GS I'd say.
