New rig for gaming

[agoniado]

Hey guys. Im from Portugal and i intend to buy a new pc when 4870x2 comes out or so.



- E8400
- 4870x2
- WESTERN DIGITAL 320GB SATA II 16MB 3200AAKS x2
- CoolerMaster Elite RC-690
- Corsair TX-750
- Corsair PC8500 4Gb XMS2 Dominator (2x2Gb) DDR2
- tuniq tower cooler 120
- Asus P5Q-Pro / p5q deluxe
- Asus DRW-2014L1T Sata Black


What u think of this? Its for gaming (COD4 mainly) and i will oc it prolly.
1680x1050 22' monitor 2232bw


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[modoheo]

Looks good, except I'm not sure why you'd go with 2 X 320 HD's instead of one WD AAKS 640gig HD.

Not a big fan of RAM with big heatsinks like the dominator, since they sometimes get in the way of seating CPU coolers depending on the mobo. I'd go with mushkin or G.Skill 1.8 volt DDR2 800 RAM unless you're overclocking past 3.6.

 

[agoniado]

Because of raid 0... i heard its a lot better having raid 0. I would like to take my E8400 to 4.0 =)

 

[modoheo]

Though many swear by setting up two hard drives in RAID 0 to increase performance, many articles suggest the real world performance improvement is not worth the added expense, complexity, and drive failure rate. My advice would be to stick with one big drive in this price range.

Consider going with the Xigmatek CPU cooler - it's the best air cooler out there and will give you a better shot at getting to 4.0GHz (which should actually be achievable with the set up you chose):
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835233003

 

[MarcVenice]

You heard ? I don't have it quoted anymore, but you heard wrong. Loading times barely improve, if at all. A single HD, like a WD 640gb of Samsung f1 750gb will be equally fast, give twice the storage space, and will be 50% less susceptible to failure then a raid 0 setup. You can get 1066mhz ram for 85$ or so, so make sure you don't pay more then that.

 

[agoniado]

Xigmatek CPU cooler hasnt arrived to my country yet =P

Isnt this one good? Any others better than this?

 

[DSF]

If you can find DDR2-1000 for less than DDR2-1066, it's just as fast for all intents and purposes.