rate this pc

[skidude]

i am thinking about maken this pc

Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 Conroe 1.86GHz 2M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor

LIAN LI PC-7B plus II Black Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives

2 ATI 100-435846 Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 512MB 256-bit GDDR4 PCI Express x16 HDCP CrossFire Video Cards

Thermaltake toughpower W0104RU ATX12V / EPS12V 650W Power Supply 100 - 240 V CE, CB, TUV, FCC, UL, CUL, and BSMI certified

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory (ATI CrossFire Certified)

DFI LANPARTY UT ICFX3200-T2R/G LGA 775 ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 IE ATX Intel Motherboard

Specification on the motherboard can be found here
DFI Product for Mainboard

[The Mob]

only 2 80gb hds??
or are those the ones that have 10K rpm?

[Dan]

since it says 7200rpm... no they are not 10k rpm

go with some 80 or 120 gb 10k raptors ^_^

[skidude]

i will never use more then 20gb on this pc... it will be a pure gaming pc :p

[Dan]

considering how new games take up 4+ gb each... i doubt that

[skidude]

i think i will only run 1 maybe 2 games off it eek:

[The Mob]

hmmm..
if your going to build one purely for gaming, i definitely recommend the 10k rpm ones. decreases load time and in general would be way better.
oh btw, what OS you going to use?

[skidude]

i have not seen any SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives that have over 7200 rpm and i run windows xp pro

[Mathalamus]

get vista...


oh wait bad idea, nvm

[skidude]

vista is a good os but it still has alot of bugs... just like every os that gets released confused: they are already working to fix the bugs in the os

[FrogMan]

Get a 16mb cache for your hdd, for gaming its proven the amd X2 is much better something like a 5000+ is cool and cheaper and ditch the two ati and get two gerforce 7600gt cards sli also proven to be a better buy.

[The Mob]

hehehe.. ya..
nvida all the way
here is a link to the 10K HD with 16mb cache

[skidude]

i'm going with a new setup

ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard

LIAN LI PC-G70B Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Leadtek WinFast PX8800 GTX TDH GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card

Thermaltake Toughpower 850W W0131RU – NVIDIA QUAD-SLI APPROVED, FOUR +12V RAIL READY

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Windsor 2.6GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor

2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drives

OCZ 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory (ATI CrossFire Certified)

[FrogMan]

The power supply is over board i have pretty much the same system and 600watt is more than enough(help to save money maybe go for 700watt)

Would still by say one sata II hdd with 16mb cache as these are not a problem to run as they don't suffer from raid problems as before the card is great although i am not a fan of leadtek products also hoping that you will go with sli'ing two 8800gtx otherwise stick to something that you can buy two of or hopefully that model will be around for awhile so you can by two.

Ram is great it what i am running

[The Mob]

i think that sli-ing two 8800 woulld be over kill
hell, i think that even having one 8800 is overkill lol
well it just depends on your budget, and how hard core of a gamer you are

[Tool]

Don't listen to these fools. Don't do SLI, just use the one 8800 you have in mind right now. Benchmarks show it performs equivalently to 7900s running SLI and 1950s running CrossFire.

Also, that 5200 doesn't compare to a 6600 Core 2. Trust me, go Core 2, preferably 6600, if not 6400 still kicks that 5200's ass. Even the 6000 that was just released can't compete with the Core 2s yet.

[FrogMan]

Whatever when it comes to gaming intel can eat amd's dust.

[Dan]

frog you have an amd x2 4800 right? right now my pentium D (lol) is getting the same benchmarks as that proc.

[FrogMan]

i have the 5000+ but benchmarking compared to what? what benchmark tests?

I seriously hate Tech Forum...yall give me braincramps.-Pamela

[Fykins]

Could you get a little better of a processor, I thought they made Core 2 Duo's with each core clocked at like 2-2.8 GHz. Rest is good, but don't fill those hard drives up with porn now kk? You know you can get a 250 gb hard drive for like $80 bucks right?

EDIT: Nvm I just looked it up and I could only find Core 2 E6300's with that same processor speed, but I'd just go with AMD then.