Originally posted by: MarcVenice
DQ6 is VERY expensive, a ds3r or ds3l will be fine, hell the 70$ abit ip35 at newegg would be fine. Unless you of course need 100 sata ports, wifi, firewire and more of that mumbo jumbo. PC8500 ram is ridiculous too. Any ddr2 800mhz will allow you to overclock your q6600 to at least 3.6ghz. Many people don't even hit 3.6ghz. The PSU is overkill big time. I suppose I can agree with the 8800gtx.
As for the case, yeah, depends on what you want to do with it. I wouldn't really like spending 300$ on a case, 300$ on a good Watercooling kit, when you could get a 100$ case, a 65$ high performance HSF and achieve an overclock that's plenty high. Unless you want to have a HUGE e-penis, then it might be worth it.
Maybe stick to watercooling aigomorla
and maybe u didnt notice how much of a budget he dedicated to this project.
The DQ6 fits in his budget quite well, and its a hell of a stable performer.
"when i say my budget is 2,300-2,400 US that does not include the monitor/mouse/keyboard, so if you want to throw a monitor in there that u reccomend thats fine"
He wants a quality machine. Not a Cheap Crunch box.
Your recomendation has no 2nd pci-e, I dont know if it even has RAID. Also im only stating parts which i use and have shown me to be ROCK stable, at high overclocks at 100% load for months without issues.
Maybe you should throw your rig on F@H or WCG for a month and see how long it lasts.
Also whats wrong with those ram if you get them on rebate? i picked my second pair up for around 120 dollars. And i dont need to touch anything in settings for them to run. Also i can tighten the timings and bump the speed. Most ballastix PC8500's have no difficulty running 3-3-3-8 even at 800 mhz.
If the OP wanted to build a cheap box, then yeah, i would point him in a different path. But to fit his budget, i think my recomendation is right on the ball park.
OP, you want to build a cheap box, then yeah listen to marc. You want to build a solid overclocking monster machine, which i promise you, it will be ROCK stable even for WCG and F@H. Then i would seriously recomend you think about the parts i recomend.
Lastly, whats up with the people on this section. Why do you guys tell people this or that is too expensive or overkill when it fits there budget. Man, i hate to think what you guys would think about me and my computer stuff.
I have 5 quads alone, 3 on top tier boards and cooling. In my personal experience, cheap stuff = problems when stressed at long periods of time in the long run.
Also you tell me a PSU thats cheap that can do this:
The Antec Quattro 850, that being the lower model vs the 1kw series:
Jonny's exact comments were:
"I must admit that I am absolutely amazed with the lack of ripple and noise on this power supply. In most cases, the ripple and noise measured on the +12V rail is actually less than that on the +3.3V or +5V!
Pretty much, the +12V doesn't even beg for attention until test 7, and even then we're talking about ripple and noise that is less than 10mV p-p. 10mV! At it's absolute worse, we only measure 20mV p-p on the +12V rail during tests 9 and10. Simply amazing."
The corsair series cant do this if i recall. And stability in Power on the rails is VERY important in quads and overclocking.
So why are you telling people that its overkill when stability is what your truely paying for in the long run?
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