New Gaming system

[Diom]

Hello! I'm trying to put togeather a new decent gaming system. I don't really know that much about building pcs from scratch but I know some bacis, anyways heres the hardware I found.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage Formula Republic of Gamers Series
Graphics: BFG Geforce 9800 GTX
HDD: Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD753LJ 750 GB
Ram: Corsair XMS2 Dominator 2 x 2 GB
Power supply: Corsair TX750W

So... is this completly follish or is it a OK build, please give me your honest respons. Im a bit of a Scrooge McDuck. And I really would hate to give money for something that turns out crappy Suggestions are also more than welcome.

Regards
Christian aka Diom

 

[Maziar]

Hello and welcome to the forums mate

First get E8400 instead because 100mhz isn't worth the extra money
also i say get a 8800GTS 512 instead of 9800GTX because the difference isn't noticeable between thse too

Others look very good

 

[evongugg]

Welcome to the forums!

The Asus Rampage is a X48 motherboard, Crossfire motherboard. You probably want to invest in a AMD card.
You can get a smaller power supply ~500W, unless you want to do Crossfire.

Top Tier PSU:
http://www.tomswiki.com/page/Tiered+PSU+Listings?t=anon

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108088

http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1460

Silent PSUs
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article699-page1.html

AMD Certified PSUs (Single+Crossfire):
http://ati.amd.com/online/certifiedpsu/index.html

Certified SLI-Ready Power Supplies
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html

 

[aevm]

+1 for the E8400.

Wait for the HD 4870. Your PSU and MB already support two of those cards. Get one now (well, OK, when it's released) and maybe another one later. You can't do that with nVidia cards like the 9800GTX or 8800GTS on that motherboard.

BTW, the 4870 will beat the 9800GTX and it should cost $299, apparently.

 

[jpdykes]

+1 Wait for 4870.

You will need 64bit Vista, a case, an optical drive, peripherals and a monitor.

Jeremy

 

[godless]

wait for 4850/4870 and if you plan on crossfire, get at least 700 watts psu, 800 watts if you can find it cheap.

 

[Diom]

Hey guys, wow thanks for the quick replies. All taking into consideration. And i will wait for the 4870 Anyways I had a chat with a pal of my and showed him the system and he said I should get a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 instead. Any comments on that?

 

[godless]

that depends on if you will multi task and use multi-threaded applications. if you are building a gaming system. then the two faster cores will outperform the slower quad core. but if you will oc the q9300 then you get the best out of two worlds. since you only stated decent gaming rig, i'm gonna recommand to stick with faster dual core.

 

[shadowthor]

don't get the Q9300, if you have the cash, get the Q9450 instead. Its had more cache and not handicapped as much as the q9300. The Q9300 has 6mb cache and 7.5 as multiplier.

 

[Diom]

Hello agian guys, agian thanks for the great advice. I was wondering if I should go for the new Asus ROG Maximus II Formula instead of the Rampage Formula

Maximus II Formula: http://asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=117&l3=0&l4=0&model=2166&modelmenu=2

Rampage Formula: http://asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=117&l3=0&l4=0&model=2070&modelmenu=2