Hey guys,
Im new to this forum and would like your opinions on a build Im after as my old pc has finally decided enough is enough. Ive always been an AMD fan but now the intels are just sooo good ive been converted and am looking at setting up a new gaming rig based around the E8400.
The system is as follows:
Antec P182 Case
Antec Quattro 850W
Asus Rampage Formula Intel x48 Motherboard (DDR2)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x 2GB)
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
2x Western Digital Caviar SE16 320 GB 16MB Cache
LG GGC H2O-L Blu Ray reader & HD DVD Rom Serial ATA Drive
Windows Vista Ultimate 64
The graphics card I may get an Asus ATI Radeon 3870 X2 1024MB GDDR3 or wait till the release of the 4870 series and get one of them. Do you guys think its worth the wait for this new gen of graphics cards (I still need to gather around £300 but that will only take 2 weeks tops)
Also Ive never overclocked a CPU before and was wondering how easy it is to do with a E8400... I was looking at going sumwhere between 3.6-3.8GHz, will this be doable with just air cooling?
Can anyone suggest anything else that could perform better at a similar price range? Im not looking into DDR3 RAM nor quad core as this will mostly be gaming.
Suggestions / critism is welcome, as I havnt been keeping up with the knowledge recently.
Cheers
Im new to this forum and would like your opinions on a build Im after as my old pc has finally decided enough is enough. Ive always been an AMD fan but now the intels are just sooo good ive been converted and am looking at setting up a new gaming rig based around the E8400.
The system is as follows:
Antec P182 Case
Antec Quattro 850W
Asus Rampage Formula Intel x48 Motherboard (DDR2)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz
Corsair 4GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5 TwinX (2x 2GB)
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler
2x Western Digital Caviar SE16 320 GB 16MB Cache
LG GGC H2O-L Blu Ray reader & HD DVD Rom Serial ATA Drive
Windows Vista Ultimate 64
The graphics card I may get an Asus ATI Radeon 3870 X2 1024MB GDDR3 or wait till the release of the 4870 series and get one of them. Do you guys think its worth the wait for this new gen of graphics cards (I still need to gather around £300 but that will only take 2 weeks tops)
Also Ive never overclocked a CPU before and was wondering how easy it is to do with a E8400... I was looking at going sumwhere between 3.6-3.8GHz, will this be doable with just air cooling?
Can anyone suggest anything else that could perform better at a similar price range? Im not looking into DDR3 RAM nor quad core as this will mostly be gaming.
Suggestions / critism is welcome, as I havnt been keeping up with the knowledge recently.
Cheers