Will these new parts work together?

[Rendili]

Hi,

My current 5+ year old PC stopped working last night, finished playing BF2, left the pc on, came back and no display, the monitor will not get a signal, tried my old graphics card and still nothing, so with no other spare parts to narrow down the fault i am having to upgrade stuff.
It has been a long while (5 ish years) since i specced up an upgrade, so any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated.

I was thinking of the following :

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

Where I am more stuck is the motherboard and memory.

Do i go

Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
or
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard

do i go

Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x1GB) (800MHz at 4-4-4-12) x 2
or
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 DHX PC2-6400C4DHX TwinX (2x1GB) (1066MHz at 5-5-5-15) x 2
or
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 PC2-6400C5 TwinX (2x2GB) (800MHz at 5-5-5-18) x1

Will 1066MHz memory be able to run at full speed in those motherboards with that processor?
Is it better to get faster memory with slower latency or faster latency and slower memory?

As far as i can tell there is nothing currently that support duel nvidia cards so i dont see any point in 2 pci-e 16 slots?
plus i think the motherboard above may not be full speed on both?

I am also looking at having a mirrored raid os drive and a mirrored raid data drive, i think both motherboards support that


What do you guys think?

thanks for any help

 

[akhilles]

Other than gaming, what else do you do on the pc for how much time? If you do more mundane tasks than gaming, a quad cpu is a better choice.

No, you don't need to match ram speed & cpu fsb speed. Divide fsb by half. 666.5mhz will be the default speed of any ram you throw at it. Pick out the best deal. 800mhz will have a bit leeway.

False: nvidia chipsets support sli. The best one for Intel now is 680i. Instead of worrying about running gpu at full speed, I suggest you look at the benchmarks of the 8800gt single & sli. See the differences. You're the only one who can determine if it's worth the extra money.

 

[Rendili]

thanks for the post.

I mostly use the pc for gaming, BF2, Supreme Commander, Doom3, Quake4, Command & Conquer 3.
I program using visual studio express
I also do video editing.

Also the other normal tasks.. email, web browsing, photos, mp3, tv.

so I could have the CPU running at 1333MHz at the same time as the memory running at 1066MHz in both those boards?
So should i go for the 1066MHz at slower latency or 800MHz at higher latency?

I am not looking to run 2 graphics cards at the moment. dont want to spend the money, was not expecting to spend any money on pc stuff at the moment.

Thanks again

 

[Rendili]

I have decided to go for the following :

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 "LGA775 Conroe" 3.00GHz (1333FSB) - Retail x 1
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard x 1
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 DHX PC2-6400C4DHX TwinX (2x1GB) (4-4-4-12) x 2
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) x 1

Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache x 2
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache x 1

 

[akhilles]

Perfect! Ram speed doesn't matter very much if you're not overclocking. Half the cpu's fsb speed is more than enough. 800mhz will give you some headroom for cpu upgrades.

The E6850 is best for gaming.

 

[Rendili]

excellent