About to Order - Step away from the credit-card

[mlaporta]

I settled on the build listed below but then I read an article from pcstats.com that had a review on this mobo: Foxconn MARS LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard.

Has anyone heard about Foxconn, it killed the competition in the reviews but as far as name recognition for reliabilty & performance that has always been Asus & Gigabyte, so I'm apprehensive to try them unless anyone can shed some light???

OK here is the build... is this all I need and most importantly will all this work together??? (AM I MISSING ANYTHING?????):

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz 6MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
$220
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GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS4 Rev. 2.0 LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
$170
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Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit
$75.00
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EVGA 512-P3-N841-A3 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported
$315
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Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
$120
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CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 620W Power Supply
$160
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ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler
$22
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Seagate Barracuda ST3500320AS 500GB 7200.11 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$120
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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz PCI Interface Sound Card
$80

 

[Plyro109]

Well, I don't know about that particular Foxconn, but I have one for S939 that's working fine, and is letting me slowly push my overclock even higher on my X2 4200+ (Currently at 2.75Ghz @1.4v, working on pushing it up.) with pretty much total stability.

Other than that, your build looks pretty good, though the cost of RAM seems a little bit high.

 

[pip_seeker]

personally I would go with the Q6600 and a 8800GT and probably switch the psu to antec other than that looks good.

The quad more or less depends what you're going to use it for tho'.

 

[skittle]

Foxconn is a well known (and reputable) brand. They also are one of apples OEMs.

The only brand I have ever really been iffy about is ECS... which the only mobo of theirs I had, died after 7 months.

 

[PsychoFanatic]

Antec isn't what it used to be Corsair 620w is Very good quality my personal choice to be honest, that or the 750w version.

 

[rickpcnerd]

if your are not going to do any huge video encoding, E8400 is the best choice. Wolfdale are much faster than q6600 in gaming. As a hardcore gamer, I personally go with E8400 and overclock that bi-tch.