My new SUPER Gamer ^^

[mfj85]

What do you guys think ? I just ordered this, hopefully no bottlenecks or mistakes !

Intel Core2duo E6600
Zalman CNP89500 CPU-Cooler
MB ASUS STRIKER EXTREME NFORCE 680i SLI - SKT775
SoundBlaster X-FI Gamer Sound
Gigabit NetworkCard
2048 MB DUAL CORSAIR DDR2 800MHZ RAM
320 GB SEAGATE 7200 rpm Drive
72 GB Westerndigitial 10000rmp Drive
BFG GeForce 8800GTX
Samsung DVD-Burner/Drive
NZxT LEXA Gaming Tower
PSU THERMALTAKE 680WATT
SyncMaster 225BW - 22", 1680x1050 WSXGA
LOGITECH G15 GAMING KEYBOARD
RAZER COPPERHEAD

Should be fairly easy OCing to 3ghz ya? And the rest of it , looks good ? ^^

 

[danielcoles1989]

na this looks all good mate, just as it looks like u either dont have a budget or it is a very large one ma i reccomend gettin a 150GB Raptor and put all your games on that if you have a lot, otherwise they will be forced to go on the slower HDD.

Also just one question why a Zalman9500? its a bit of a odd choice, not the best :-9700/tuniq but also not the worst : :?:

 

[mfj85]

The cooler was pretty random, didn't want the worst, but don't really need real high end for 3ghz oc. So I just picked a pretty good one. I think the 75ish gb raptor will do for me, should be enough for quite a few games, and the games that can't go there will just have to do on the regular one.

 

[blade85]

I envy you.

Nice setup. well if ur raptor gets full in a year, you can always add another one :roll:

 

[wingsofzion]

your budget must be set pretty high for this rig. I was going to suggest the exact same two things danielcoles1989 did.

1) If your budget is this high i'd get a 150GB Raptor
2) Get the newest Zalman 9700 CPU cooler instead of the 9500. The 9500 is pretty stable don't get me wrong but i've been seeing the 9700 keep E6600's at 31C idle on a few rigs. Might be helpful.

No idea how good you are at internal cable management but on my past few rigs i've used ThermalTake ToughPower 650 PSU's. This particular model has modular cabeling and it helps ALOT in keeping unnessesary cableing out of the rig and use what you need and store what ya don't. Just a suggestion. It's the neat freak in me i guess