Hi I was just wondering these parts would work well together and if im getting a good price for them? Any ideas or thoughts would help but im trying to stay on a budget! 560W "SilverStone" ST56F V3 Power Supply = $110 Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler for Intel Socket 775 with PWM Sharing Technology = $39 LITEON 20X Super AllWrite Drive LH-20A1P IDE = $49.50 GIGABYTE NVIDIA GEFORCE GF8600GT SILENTPIPE VIDEO CARD = $174.95 CREATIVE AUDIGY VALUE PCI SOUND CARD 100dB SNR 7.1 surround sound = $49 Seagate ST3320620A 3.5INC CUDA7200.10, 320GB, 7200RPM, 16MB, UATA/100 = $121 GA-P35-DS3L = $124 Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 CPU, 2.66 GHz, FSB 1333MHz, 4MB L2 Cache, Socket LGA775 = $299 2G kit-800 (2x1G) Kingston = $66 EZcool H-850 = $99 Total = 1,131.45 Is this any good?
Ya, it's ok... Good mobo and proc. Good memory, OKish PSU.. Definately good heat solution. Your graphic card is pretty much crap though.. EXPENSIVE crap, too.. Basically switch out that rediculously expensive 8600GT. With the price I'd hope it is at least the GDDR3 version. And silent pipe would be great for that card since it draws so little power (it all comes from the PCI-ex slot, no additional power needed) but the card will be clocked low as well, and well, the 8600 cards are pretty much crap all around. You are spending $175 for a card that will perform about half as well as a card that costs ~$200 like Newegg.com - XFX PVT88PUDF4 GeForce 8800GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail. You will reall ybe glad if you switched, trust me. It's only an extra $25 for about double the performance. If you don't believe me, look at this chart, VGA Charts 2007 | Tom's Hardware . The two blue lines are the cards in question, one being the 512 version of the 8800GT (256 will perform pretty much the same till higher resolutions) and the other being the 8600 GTS (this card actually has higher clock rates than the one you will be getting. Then think about the extra $25 and the extra 50 fps you can have.
