I am looking at purchasing a whole new PC and would like some suggestions from you guys,

Pro - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850
EVGA Nforce 680i SLI
G Skill 4GB PQ PC6400 DDR2
2 X Leadtek 8800 Ultra Leviathan OC water Cooled edition ( Can these be link and run on 1 X Monitor)
Tagan 1100 Watt Power supply
Creative Sound Blaster X-FI elite Pro
Sony Blu Ray Buner
2 X Seagate 1TB Sata II HDD
Logitech G15 and G5 mouse and keyboard
Lian - LI PC A71

I got this build out of PCPP here in Aus and i want anyones advice on this.

Please suggest what you can i really want to go the best so i dont need to upgrade again for a while.

Thanks Let me know

If you want an honest answer, that looks like you have too much time and even more money to waste. Reasons? The QX6850 is a CPU only for those who don't care about money, same with the 8800 Ultra (Let alone Leadtek's leviathan edition).

What I would do to keep performance at nearly the same and save at least $1500 is to drop the CPU to the Q6600 and get SLI GTX instead.

So get 2 X GTX 8800 models and the Q6600?

Is this a dream machine that you wont actually buy or what? this things gonna cost an arm and a leg, maybe even a kidney.
You'll probably want a PCI or PCI-E X1 Raid controller if you want it for your harddrives, Mobo's arent the best at that job.
EDIT: also, will that mobo fit in an E-ATX case?

1) Save $1,000 by buying a Q6600 and overclocking it.

2) I still say the 8800 Ultra's are a waste of money overall. Just get the 8800GTX and save the extra cash to buy the new gen of GPU's when they come out (which is winter time I believe)

3) Even if I had the money, I wouldn't get anything Blu-ray or HD-DVD for my computer until the industry figures out a format.

Wow that is serious money.

so can someone lay out the parts they would recommend so i can look at that system. This is not a dream machine it is a bonus and i need to source rather quickly. Please see what you guys can recommend.

You could drop one of those hardrives and get a Raptor also.

You could sacrifice graphics power for proccesing power if he gets a dual socket J mobo and drops in two X5365's and gets rid of a leviathan

thanks for all the info but just a complete spec would be good

That would be 8 cores running at 2.66GHZ! That's a lot of processing!

actually thats 3Ghz but apparently they only sell the X5355 at retail

Is there a budget to this bonus, because that would help us give you a list and what will this thing be used for?

I am looking at purchasing a whole new PC and would like some suggestions from you guys,

Pro - Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850
EVGA Nforce 680i SLI
G Skill 4GB PQ PC6400 DDR2
2 X Leadtek 8800 Ultra Leviathan OC water Cooled edition ( Can these be link and run on 1 X Monitor)
Tagan 1100 Watt Power supply
Creative Sound Blaster X-FI elite Pro
Sony Blu Ray Buner
2 X Seagate 1TB Sata II HDD
Logitech G15 and G5 mouse and keyboard
Lian - LI PC A71

I got this build out of PCPP here in Aus and i want anyones advice on this.

Please suggest what you can i really want to go the best so i dont need to upgrade again for a while.

Thanks Let me know
OK Mate, alot of these thing are just burning money in fact this machine is gonna burn ya through like 1.5k extra when you could save 2.5k. in my opinion if you want a really good gaming good experience this is the rig you want

CPU Q6600 Saves 1.2k
The ultras are like 1k each yes you will get better performance then gtxes but it's not worth it. get
Dual Evga 8800 GTX for 600 each instead and get a sperate WC cooling save 800-900 bucks
Get a more brandname Powersupply
Get more cd/dvd drive with a BIG case i have only one dvd drive and trust me it's annoying

Keep the rest you have and VIOLA I saved you 2.2k which is enough to put 9800GTX in sli as soon as they come out... Good Luck

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G.Skill 4GB 2GB x 2 PC2-6400 (DDR2-800 5-5-5-15 Dual Channel

And that is the memoty im looking at also?


Are the components okay?