How do these components look? buying tomorrow

[ssh2004]

How do these components look? I am buying this tomorrow. Any problems/compatibility issues i have not spotted?

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Asus P5K Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775)
Gainward BLISS GeForce 8800 GT Golden Sample 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (4718462008941)
OCZ GameXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply
Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Dual Channel Kit (BL2KIT12864AA804)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3320620AS)
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (66I-00715)

 

[Maziar]

Looks awesome dont change anything

 

[yomamafor1]

Looks good. . Have fun with it.

 

[dragonsprayer]

BAD!
The arctic cooler is total junk barely better then the stock cooler - will not allow good overclocking get a thermalright or zalman

get the p5k-e wireless mobo - the p5k has no raid controller, the ich9 not the ich9r - you want the r in case you want raid later. i think?

600w psu is ok - ocz has improved alot - make sure its the high 12v one - do not get the silent model big mistake.

silverstone strider 600 is $100 and its near silent. or antec or even the regular high 12v ocz if u must

skip the 8800GT - get the 8800GTS (512) better cooling better card

ram - make sure you get 4-4-4-12 @1.8-1.9v or 4-4-3-10 at 1.9-2v

the 2.1v 4-4-4-12 or 5-5-5-15 is not nearly as good, but same price only a few dollars different

seagate - they rock make sure you get the 8ms seek and not the 12ms sesk - 620 is newer so i think your ok

i am not going to look up your parts - read what i said then look them up.


good job on the quad core - but....... you need to oc the 2.4ghz chip to match the 3ghz of the 6850 remember that! and in 3 weeks the 3.2ghz E8500 comes out.

if this is for gaming, few games can use 4 cores, so clock speed is more important then total cores.

since you never use all 4 cores you can crank the quad up to 3.6ghz with air coolers - even just ok ones like thermalright ultra-90 that sells for $19.95 and blows away the arctic cooling junker

they look the same almost but there is a 5-10c difference at 3.6ghz

 

[dragonsprayer]

just so you know

i built 6 of these modded velocity jobs with arctic coolers and many cpu's

thermalright ultra120

here is a ultra-90 - i ran 3 chips in this (raid10) cat is my tech

zalman cooling 3.6ghz quad

thermalright ultra-90 3.6ghz quad

 

[tonymarcus]

Was one of those cases an Antec P182, I'm interested in that case with the Zalman 9700 CPU cooler and wanted to make sure it fitted in case OK?

Tony

 

[dragonsprayer]

yepper -- remove the platic fan mounts and use rubber fan pins - you need 2 different type for the bottom and middle.

here is another one:

thermal right si-120

 

[tonymarcus]

Thanks Dragon , Why do you need rubber mounts are the fans nosiey ??

Is the P182 suitable for a PSU that has the fan on the bottom of the unit, I see from your picture that there is a little space from the bottom of the case to the PSU.

Would you recomend that case ?

Thanks

Tony

 

[OlSkoolChopper]

Hmm... a static packed cat next to a runing PC. Did you read my post about rubing your sox on the carpet then zaping the mobo?

For the record I wouldn't buy a stinkin' thing until I see what surprises Intel has on Jan. 21.

 

[spoonboy]

BAD!
The arctic cooler is total junk barely better then the stock cooler - will not allow good overclocking get a thermalright or zalman

get the p5k-e wireless mobo - the p5k has no raid controller, the ich9 not the ich9r - you want the r in case you want raid later. i think?

600w psu is ok - ocz has improved alot - make sure its the high 12v one - do not get the silent model big mistake.

silverstone strider 600 is $100 and its near silent. or antec or even the regular high 12v ocz if u must

skip the 8800GT - get the 8800GTS (512) better cooling better card

ram - make sure you get 4-4-4-12 @1.8-1.9v or 4-4-3-10 at 1.9-2v

the 2.1v 4-4-4-12 or 5-5-5-15 is not nearly as good, but same price only a few dollars different

seagate - they rock make sure you get the 8ms seek and not the 12ms sesk - 620 is newer so i think your ok

i am not going to look up your parts - read what i said then look them up.


good job on the quad core - but....... you need to oc the 2.4ghz chip to match the 3ghz of the 6850 remember that! and in 3 weeks the 3.2ghz E8500 comes out.

if this is for gaming, few games can use 4 cores, so clock speed is more important then total cores.

since you never use all 4 cores you can crank the quad up to 3.6ghz with air coolers - even just ok ones like thermalright ultra-90 that sells for $19.95 and blows away the arctic cooling junker

they look the same almost but there is a 5-10c difference at 3.6ghz

what u on about the arctic cooling hsf is very good for the price and miles better than the stock 1. The one mistake in that build is the 'vista' part. You want to lose fps purely down to the os then do you?

 

[spoonboy]

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/Arctic%20Cooling%20Freezer%207%20Pro/testing.htm

"The Freezer 7 Pro is certainly a good product by Arctic Cooling. Although it is not something extreme, its excellent price and noteworthy performance make it a very affordable high performance cooler for use on the warm Intel cores. Also, when PWM is enabled, the Freezer 7 Pro becomes inaudible when the system is idle. "

 

[boduke]

I'm using a Freezer 7 Pro on my Q6600 (B3 Stepping) OC to 3Ghz and not having any issues with it...it's a decent cooler, especially at $20.00 or so...

 

[navvara]

I personally like this one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16835887002

Pretty much equal to a zalman cnps9500 but cheaper and more quiet. Looks a bit meh but I'd take function over form every day.

Used to have a 15$ rebate or 27$ shipped after rebate and at that price a better pick than the ac freezer 7. Still is a good pick at 31$ AR because it's more efficient (OVERKILL EVEN) and quiet.