First of all i would like to say hello to everyone on this board, i will be building a system within a week or so and i have a few questions that require your technical advice.
I plan to use this system for mostly gaming, leaving it stock for a year or so. After that i plan to overclock slightly.
SPECS:
Antec 900
Gigabyte Ga-p35-ds4 v 2.0
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
2 x wd800 (raid 0)
2 x wd250gb (raid 1)
1 x DVDRW Drive
*Will be installing Vista Ultimate x64
Now here are the questions that i have:
1) Which power supply will i need to power this system, considering i might add another 2Gb of memory and sligtly overclock in the future? I would like to have a modular psu if possible.
2) Will this system be able to handle games on a 720p 37" LCD?
3) I own a creative x-fi extreme gamer card, is this card better than the onboard audio? Will it improve performance by taking off the load from mb, cpu?
I would prefer not to buy the 640MB GTS because of the budget, but if I have problems playing games like crysis on my LCD i will be forced to buy it.
Thank you all in advance, and i will be waiting to see what you guys think.
Thanks
Sam
I plan to use this system for mostly gaming, leaving it stock for a year or so. After that i plan to overclock slightly.
SPECS:
Antec 900
Gigabyte Ga-p35-ds4 v 2.0
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB
2 x wd800 (raid 0)
2 x wd250gb (raid 1)
1 x DVDRW Drive
*Will be installing Vista Ultimate x64
Now here are the questions that i have:
1) Which power supply will i need to power this system, considering i might add another 2Gb of memory and sligtly overclock in the future? I would like to have a modular psu if possible.
2) Will this system be able to handle games on a 720p 37" LCD?
3) I own a creative x-fi extreme gamer card, is this card better than the onboard audio? Will it improve performance by taking off the load from mb, cpu?
I would prefer not to buy the 640MB GTS because of the budget, but if I have problems playing games like crysis on my LCD i will be forced to buy it.
Thank you all in advance, and i will be waiting to see what you guys think.
Thanks
Sam