Howdy I'm moving on from my aging deminsion 8200 and building a C2D comp. I live in Alaska so I can't purchase my components through newegg, and so I've found zipzoomfly.com to ship up here with a reasonable shipping fee. That said if anyone knows of any other online retailers that ship to AK and also are competitive, please let me know. Here is the build I have in mind...
Case: Antec Nine Hundred
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=140146
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005276
PSU: Corsair HX Series CMPSU-620HX 620W
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=373110
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6750
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005522
Memory: Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 2 Gig kit ---PURCHASED ALREADY---
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80061-9
Video Card: 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=322837
DVD-Combo: Liteon DVD 16x + CD-RW 52x32x52 Serial ATA
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=175503
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320Gb
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101457
OS: Vista Home Premium 64-bit
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=604698
This computer will be firstly aimed at gaming but also mp3 encoding, some picture editing, the usual internet and home use. However I am not interested in dropping the dough to purchase the 8800gtx or think that sli is ideal for 2 8800GTS cards, for a later upgrade, so I'm all about going single GPU now and probly buying another card in a couple years to replace the single 8800GTS.
Questions...
1. I'm currently not and unable to do any overclocking on my Dell but I think that I will have interest in overclocking this build. For a modest OC for this build to say 3.0-3.2Ghz on the processor in the Antec 900 case, do you recommend something other than the retail HSF on the e6750? Any recommendations that are available at zipzoomfly?
2. If you were going to drop the money and buy now would you go for the e6750 or go quad core? I really haven't fully been convinced quad core is all that right at this time.
3. My 22" LG LCD supports resolutions up to 1600X1050, 3000:1 contrast ratio, and 2 ns response time. I've read that the 320mb version of the GTS is all that is needed for resolutions under 1600X1200. However is it possible that there could be some benefit in the future having a 640mb version for upcoming DX10 games or is the GTX the only option that will provide a noticable performance increase?
4. I know that XP currently is the faster windows platform for probly all games atm, with more driver support. But can anyone really recommend purchasing a copy of XP at this point when its certain that Vista will be mainstream before too long? Also it just seems to me that 64bit is also going to be standard as it's almost certain that memory requirements are going to continue to be pushed well beyond the 3gig max of the 32bit OS's. Looking for peoples opinions here.
5. Please feel free to critique the build with any recommendations. Again I'm not going to go SLI/CF or buy a GTX/ULTRA, unless prices drop below $400.00.
Building this comp sometime in the beginning of September.
Thanks,
Shaun
Case: Antec Nine Hundred
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=140146
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005276
PSU: Corsair HX Series CMPSU-620HX 620W
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=373110
CPU: Core 2 Duo E6750
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10005522
Memory: Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 2 Gig kit ---PURCHASED ALREADY---
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80061-9
Video Card: 8800 GTS 320MB GDDR3
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=322837
DVD-Combo: Liteon DVD 16x + CD-RW 52x32x52 Serial ATA
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=175503
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320Gb
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101457
OS: Vista Home Premium 64-bit
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=604698
This computer will be firstly aimed at gaming but also mp3 encoding, some picture editing, the usual internet and home use. However I am not interested in dropping the dough to purchase the 8800gtx or think that sli is ideal for 2 8800GTS cards, for a later upgrade, so I'm all about going single GPU now and probly buying another card in a couple years to replace the single 8800GTS.
Questions...
1. I'm currently not and unable to do any overclocking on my Dell but I think that I will have interest in overclocking this build. For a modest OC for this build to say 3.0-3.2Ghz on the processor in the Antec 900 case, do you recommend something other than the retail HSF on the e6750? Any recommendations that are available at zipzoomfly?
2. If you were going to drop the money and buy now would you go for the e6750 or go quad core? I really haven't fully been convinced quad core is all that right at this time.
3. My 22" LG LCD supports resolutions up to 1600X1050, 3000:1 contrast ratio, and 2 ns response time. I've read that the 320mb version of the GTS is all that is needed for resolutions under 1600X1200. However is it possible that there could be some benefit in the future having a 640mb version for upcoming DX10 games or is the GTX the only option that will provide a noticable performance increase?
4. I know that XP currently is the faster windows platform for probly all games atm, with more driver support. But can anyone really recommend purchasing a copy of XP at this point when its certain that Vista will be mainstream before too long? Also it just seems to me that 64bit is also going to be standard as it's almost certain that memory requirements are going to continue to be pushed well beyond the 3gig max of the 32bit OS's. Looking for peoples opinions here.
5. Please feel free to critique the build with any recommendations. Again I'm not going to go SLI/CF or buy a GTX/ULTRA, unless prices drop below $400.00.
Building this comp sometime in the beginning of September.
Thanks,
Shaun