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Hello everyone, I will be buying a new PC that will be used for gaming within the next few days. Please let me know what you guys think of this setup and if you think there will be any compatibility issues, etc. Also let me know if I am missing any components like thermal paste or anything else that I might need for the build. I already have a monitor and a keyboard. I would like to keep it at about $1700 or less. Thanks in advance!

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EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
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EVGA 512-P3-N802-A1 GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB
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CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 620W Power Supply
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Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz
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Looks realy good!

Change to a P35 board if youre not going to use SLI

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Looks pretty good, a few comments:

1. Are you planning on going SLI? If not, you don't need an SLI mobo. ;)
Sub-1: If you are planning on building an SLI rig, your power supply might be a little too weak for it. It should be good because I think a SLI 8800GT = 1 8800GTX, but then again maybe not.
2. I know you probably don't want to wait, but the 8800GT will probably drop back to MSRP after the initial demand dies down.

3. If you are getting the E6850, I would just look into getting the Q6600. They are roughly the same price. The difference is that the E6850 has a higher clock and only two cores. On the other hand, the Q6600 has a lower clock, but 2 more cores. If you are just looking into playing games right now, the E6850 is better, but if you are looking to have a better processor in the future(and don't really want to upgrade soon) and also do alot of image/video editing, etc. then the Q6600 might be your choice.

Other than that, everything looks good.
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Gong SLI with two inexpensive 8800GT's seems like a good idea if your gaming at 1680x1050 or more.


Message edited by systemlord on 11-03-2007 at 09:13:40 PM

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Intel C2D E6600 @ 3.2GHz * Asus P5E * 2x1 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracers * Raptor X * EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB 651MHz/1525MHz/2100MHz * X-FI Fatal1ty Pro * Enermax Infiniti 720W PSU * Creative THX5.1 * Tuniq Tower 120
Silverstone TJ09 * Windows XP
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Thanks for the quick replies! I am pretty sure I will want to do SLI in the near future since the GTs are pretty cheap but for now I will stick with just one. So if I did plan on going SLI that PSU does not have enough power? Also I stuck with the dual-core for now because of the clock speed and the fact that nothing really takes advantage of quad-core yet does it?

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And if the G92 base 8800GTS does come out in December just step-up. This refresh of the 8800GTS 512MB/1GB looks to take the crown from even the 8800Ultra.


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Intel C2D E6600 @ 3.2GHz * Asus P5E * 2x1 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracers * Raptor X * EVGA Geforce 8800GTX 768MB 651MHz/1525MHz/2100MHz * X-FI Fatal1ty Pro * Enermax Infiniti 720W PSU * Creative THX5.1 * Tuniq Tower 120
Silverstone TJ09 * Windows XP
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nunchucksme wrote :

Thanks for the quick replies! I am pretty sure I will want to do SLI in the near future since the GTs are pretty cheap but for now I will stick with just one. So if I did plan on going SLI that PSU does not have enough power? Also I stuck with the dual-core for now because of the clock speed and the fact that nothing really takes advantage of quad-core yet does it?



That PSU is plenty for SLIed 8800GT


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