PC - Vfm?

[5711N0205W]

Thinking of springing in the region of £1500 for the spec below, does this seem a reasonable ballpark figure for this sort of spec, anyone know of a UK sales channel that may better this?

Case: Coolermaster Mystique RC-631-KWN1 - Black Alu Window with preinstalled watercooling – Ready2Go

Motherboard: Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI NF650i SLi, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX

PSU: 620W Corsair HX Series Modular SLi PSU, ATX, EPS 12V, whisper quiet, 5 year warranty

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Q6600 775 2.40 GHz 1066MHz FSB 8MB Cache Retail *Game Included*

Memory: 4GB (4x1GB) Corsair XMS2 Dominator DDR2 PC2-6400 (800) Non-ECC Unbuffered CAS 5-5-5-15 DHX

nVidia VGA-The Way It's Meant To Be Played™: 768Mb XFX 8800GTX Extreme XXX PCI-E (x16) Mem 2000 MHz GPU 630 MHz Dual DVI HDTV

System Drives: 74 Gb Western Digital Raptor SATA 10000 rpm 16MB Cache

Storage Hard drives: 400 Gb Samsung HD401LJ Spinpoint T SATA300 7200 rpm 16MB Cache 8.9 ms NCQ

Floppy Drive Flash - Card Readers & Writers: 1.44Mb Sony Silver Floppy Disk Drive OEM

DVD Writer: NEC AD7170S-0B 18x DVD±RW RAM black internal SATA Oem

[A V 8]

Hi,

That's quite a decent machine. Some questions though: Will you be building it yourself? If so, you'd get all that quite a bit cheaper than £1500. Do you intend to utilise it's full potential? I've been told there's not a lot of software out there that utilises multi core processors. I've just spent a little under £500 building my own (excluding monitors and case):

ASUS P5W Deluxe Digital Home MoBo
2 x 1GB of the same RAM you've got listed*
ATI X1950 Pro 256MB Graphics card
Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo 2.40GHz - overclocked to 3.0GHz with stock Heatsink and Fan
500w power supply.

I'm more than impressed with the performance.

* I remember reading somewhere not to install any more than 3GB RAM if using Windoze XP as more than 3GB wont be recognised. Think that was specific to my MoBo though.

Might be worth checking out www.scan.co.uk (http://www.scan.co.uk) and www.overclockers.co.uk (http://www.overclockers.co.uk) for prices.

Hope that helps,

AV8.

[5711N0205W]

Thanks AV8, I usually self build but fancied letting someone else do the work for a change, however after pricing all that up on Scan to find it can be had for around £1100 I may still go down that route. The case at £170 odd is probably a bit of an extravagance but for liquid cooling and quietness it may be worthwhile.

As for what it will be used for, I'm on the beta for a forthcoming DX10 update to a popular title which will make use of the 4 cores and am looking at a Vista platform with about 3 years of future proofing built in hence the high end specs just now.

I'm currently running XP with a 3Gb switch to make the most of the available memory, 64 bit Vista can make use of up to 8Gb using Intel 955X on Socket 775.

Cheers,
5711