I guess I will get a new rig

[reddevil0728]

It will be use for gaming, OCing and hell lot of other basic stuff. Should I be the early adopters of DDR3 and pay a premium (aka "futureproof") for it or stay with DDR2?

Processor: Q6600 (Should be waiting for price drop)
Motherboard: Can't seem to decide on this should I go for P35 Chipset or 975x or 680i? Cause with Q6600 I don't need to hit high FSB to get a good clock. Wouldn't consider P965 as P35 is the replacement for it.
RAM: 2 X 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC6400/800
Graphics: Either reuse my 7900GT or get either 8800GTS 320/640mb or get x2900XT (DDR3 512MB / DDR4 1GB) depends on price
HDD: Will keep my current with option to purchase a 500GB HDD
PSU: Cosair 620watts or Seasonic (name me a model) or SilverStone ST60F 600W Power Supply Unit Modular
Optical Drive: WIll keep my LG DVDRW with option to get another 1
Chasis: Will be reusing Lian-Li PC7+
Monitor: Using a 19inch LCD now, wouldn't be getting a bigger 1 at the moment cause no space to put. so gfx need to decide accordingly

Comments are welcome!

 

[JAG87]

Processor: good
Motherboard: P35 or 680i. 975x will not support wolddale/yorkfield
RAM: good. I would get 4GB and go for xp x64, unless you have some peripherals you love and need an x86 os.
Graphics: definetely an 8800 GTS 640MB.
HDD: sounds good, but I wouldn't use an old hd neither as my OS drive, nor as my data drive. hard drives are so cheap now, you will hate yourself when your old hd starts making clicking noises and dies.
PSU: good. very good actually. I would go for the corsair, but if you want seasonic get the S12 600W. and if you want silverstone get the decathlon.
Optical Drive: I dont see why not.
Chasis: great, make sure you have lots of airflow. those quads get hot.
Monitor: great.


you haven't said a word about cooling? you plan to oc the q6600 with the stock intel sink? good luck...






edit
I skipped the DDR2/3 question. definetely stay with ddr2. buying ddr3 right now is just plain stupid. the performance is not worh the price.

 

[reddevil0728]

Originally posted by: JAG87
Processor: good
Motherboard: P35 or 680i. 975x will not support wolddale/yorkfield
RAM: good. I would get 4GB and go for xp x64, unless you have some peripherals you love and need an x86 os.
Graphics: definetely an 8800 GTS 640MB.
HDD: sounds good, but I wouldn't use an old hd neither as my OS drive, nor as my data drive. hard drives are so cheap now, you will hate yourself when your old hd starts making clicking noises and dies.
PSU: good. very good actually. I would go for the corsair, but if you want seasonic get the S12 600W. and if you want silverstone get the decathlon.
Optical Drive: I dont see why not.
Chasis: great, make sure you have lots of airflow. those quads get hot.
Monitor: great.


you haven't said a word about cooling? you plan to oc the q6600 with the stock intel sink? good luck...






edit
I skipped the DDR2/3 question. definetely stay with ddr2. buying ddr3 right now is just plain stupid. the performance is not worh the price.

oh forget to add i got a Thermalright Ultra 120 eX. Thinking of using watercooling for gfx but depends on wat gfx i will be getting

 

[JAG87]

thats good. you dont need water cooling for this. the 8800s run just great with their cooler, unless you want to overclock them a lot.

you should be able to bring your cpu up anywhere from 3.2 to 3.4 ghz. if you want more, then you really should water cool the cpu. but otherwise I would really suggest an 8x400 config on the 680i platform with voltage on auto (which will feed about 1.4v at this speed). you can push for more, but after that you usually have to push more voltage and you will end up with one toasty quad core.

if you take my suggestions you will end up with a great build that will accomodate yorkfield when it becomes available. then if you really want DDR3 that badly, you can upgrade mobo and ram in 2008 when ddr3 prices are actually reasonable.

 

[PurdueRy]

You don't need a 600 watt PSU. Get the Corsair 520

 

[JAG87]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
You don't need a 600 watt PSU. Get the Corsair 520

true. I would also try to get one with 8 pin pci-e plugs, since thats where were going eventually.

 

[reddevil0728]

all rite, all taken into consideration. but mobo is the difficult choice.... n gfx too

 

[PurdueRy]

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

Compare the 7900 GT to the 8800GTS

 

[bryanW1995]

will 680i support penryn for a future upgrade? I'm planning a Q6600 upgrade with just mobo and ddr2 on jul 22 after the price cuts and I've only looked at p35 so far.

 

[Boyo]

with that rig, I would stick with an 8800GTS 640. Good choice for a PSU too.

 

[Jaanpunjab]

Get a P35 mobo that supports DDR3 so you can upgrade to DDR3 in the future. Right now just get DDR2 memory though,
DDR2 runs better on the P35 than DDR3 right now anyways and is much much much much less expensive

 

[reddevil0728]

Originally posted by: Jaanpunjab
Get a P35 mobo that supports DDR3 so you can upgrade to DDR3 in the future. Right now just get DDR2 memory though,
DDR2 runs better on the P35 than DDR3 right now anyways and is much much much much less expensive

you talking about those hybrid p35 mobo?