Final system Thoguhts

[secolliyn]

Alright i have this build and running now so it's kinda too late to say what i should have gotten and will do some upgrades later im just looking to see what you people think about it

Rosewill Case
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16811147033

Intel Desktop Board DG33TL Media Series
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121315&Tpk=DG33TL

Intel Core2 Quad Q6600 processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017

Patriot Extreme Performance 4GB (4 x 1GB)
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820220267

XFX GeForce 8800GT 512MB
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16814150254

CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX 520 Watt
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16817139001

Western Digital 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822136143

LG Black 20X DVD Writer
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136117

Windows Vista Ultimate (32 Bit for now)
To End this Build i toped it with a brand new 22in Viewsonic
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116059

I Ran 3DMark 06 and on this build i got a score of 11334
is this a good score for this build
Any Slight improvements that you might make to this build as in add things to it?

On another Thought i was thinking hard about getting an Aageia Physx Card for this box any thoughts on that?

Thanks for the feedback

 

[Maziar]

If u dont plan to OC, then keep that motherboard, but if u want to OC, then i suggest u getting a P35 board instead(again if u want to OC)

also dont even think of PhysX, its a waste of money and wont make a noticeable difference

that 3dmark score is good

 

[akhilles]

Physx is a waste of money. The card is gonna dropped to $100-ish. I think AMD is in talk with Aageia & will buy them out if things go well.

Slight improvements? You can start by getting rid of as many auto-start programs in Windows as possible. There are lots of tweaks for Windows. The one you might wanna stay away from is disabling services.

 

[nhobo]

Why buy a board with on-board video and then buy a video card?

 

[akhilles]

^^^ good catch. Get GA-P35-DS3L/R or IP35-E or P5K.

 

[Secolliyn1]

Why buy a board with on-board video and then buy a video card?

Igot that motherboard the CPU and Vista for 250 not my first choice but aat that kind of price for a bundle i couldn't beat it and it's a gaming Ripping and encoding machine so fo this to ose sub $1000 witch was my goal to start with.


Also update the computer Ran fine for 3 days this morning it would not post after BIOS called intel after trying to clear the BIOS changing video cards and Ram in different Slots and apparently the Ram from Patriot i got is 2.2V and this board does not support it funny that it ran for a few days Ordered another 4 Gb ram today from newegg Also DDR 800 Timing 5-5-5-16 for under for 102 after taxes