Critique my rig before purchasing.

[epidemis]

CPU: Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz (no, not going to wait for quad core-price cut)
CPU cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro
MoBo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
Ram:2x1 gig Crucial Ballistix 800 - CL4
Harddrive: seagate barricuda 320
PSU: Corsair HTX 520W (already bought, so no changing that)
Case: Antec Performance 180b
Graphic card: 8800 GTX

Now, I know this is all pretty standards and you get alot these threads daily, since this is my first real unsupervised purchase (and subsequently build), I want to make sure that 1) everything is compatible with eachother 2) that's there's parts that are much cheaper but nearly the same performance.

My budget is around 1,5k$

 

[stogez]

Everything looks good. Can't go wrong will all solid parts. Should be a great build.
Price will be cut on the 6600 as well though

 

[Roguestar]

For $1500 you can get a lot more. It's decent, looks like pretty much every other build that comes through the AnandTech General Hardware Forum Factory Assembly Line, but you could save money on the RAM. I guess if you're spending $1500 you could get 4GB of RAm, and another hard drive but whatever.

 

[epidemis]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Roguestar
For $1500 you can get a lot more. It's decent, looks like pretty much every other build that comes through the AnandTech General Hardware Forum Factory Assembly Line, but you could save money on the RAM. I guess if you're spending $1500 you could get 4GB of RAm, and another hard drive but whatever.</end quote></div>

Yes, I know this is pretty standard Everything is roughly 25% more expensive here than your new egg-prices.

 

[jkresh]

what are you using the system for and what resolution do you game at?

 

[epidemis]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: jkresh
what are you using the system for and what resolution do you game at?</end quote></div>

1200*1024, I know what you're getting at.. but I wanna play oblivion with all bells and whistles on, and perhaps upgrade my monitor later on.

The system will be used for gaming.

If I were to have cheaper rams, what would you recommend?

 

[Roguestar]

Anything that's on offer at the place you're buying it. If you're not overclocking you can save by going as low as the cheapest DDR2-533, but if you might, then get whatever DDR2-800 is the cheapest and keep your options open.

 

[Googer]

Don't buy any CPUs untill Intel slashes prices on July 22th.

http://www.dailytech.com/Intel...essors/article7293.htm

 

[tigersty1e]

Originally posted by: Googer
Don't buy any CPUs untill Intel slashes prices on July 22th.

http://www.dailytech.com/Intel...essors/article7293.htm

It helps to read the original post.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Googer
Don't buy any CPUs untill Intel slashes prices on July 22th.

http://www.dailytech.com/Intel...essors/article7293.htm

It helps to read the original post.

I missed that part and I find it silly that he can't wait 18 days to get a processor that is double the value of the one he's willing to pay for right now.

 

[epidemis]

On neweggs, the Corsair 520W only has 24A rails, but the 8800 says it requires 30A, am I missing anything?

 

[Sinn707]

Originally posted by: epidemis
On neweggs, the Corsair 520W only has 24A rails, but the 8800 says it requires 30A, am I missing anything?

I read some reviews on 520HX (newegg) and one guy was running a 8800GTX just fine, lots of people running 8800GTS in SLI with this PSU. So as long as you are not running 3 HDD's and 3 optical drives on the same machine, you should be fine. But personally, I would definitely invest an extra $35 and get 620HX, it's obviously worth it.

Good luck.

 

[Sinn707]

Oh and also a couple of things:

1. If you need a quality, fast but cheap ram, you can't beat this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820220144

2. I'm not sure why you are anti quad core but you might consider waiting for E6850 to come out on 22nd, it has 3.0ghz stock speed for almost the same price as E6600.

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[Googer]

Originally posted by: epidemis
On neweggs, the Corsair 520W only has 24A rails, but the 8800 says it requires 30A, am I missing anything?

Yes, you missed the fact that there are plenty of clerical errors in relation to product specifications on newegg.com's website. For more accurate information one should browse the manufacturers web page more often.

 

[Googer]

Also, keep in mind that newegg.com is not always the cheapest place around. In order to get more bang from each buck spent (i.e. faster parts for the same or lesser price), use a shopping site like froogle.google.com, nextag, pricegrabber, dealtime, fatwallet, or anandtech's real time price engine.