My new system build: What do you think?

[Konovalov]

Finally after much procrastination I have taken the decision to build my own system from scratch. I thought what better way to spend my spare time over Christmas and New Years than to build my own rig. So here follows the specifications which I have ordered and that should be delivered over the next couple of days:

CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Socket 775 2.4GHz (£199.74)
MOTHERBOARD - Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP (£124.94)
CPU HSF - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro HSF (£12.68)
MEMORY - Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400 (TWIN2X2048-6400C4D) DOMINATOR (£195.77)
CASE - Antec P180B Super Midi Tower - Black (£93.44)
POWER SUPPLY - Seasonic M12 Modular 600W Silent ATX2.0 PSU (£113.22)
HARD DRIVE - Seagate ST3250620AS 250GB SATAII 7200rpm 16MB OEM (£51.54)
GRAPHICS CARD - XFX 7900GS 450M core 256MB Dual DVI TVO PCI-E (£104.98)
DVD BURNER - Samsung DVD+-R/RW/RAM 18x IDE Retail Black (£24.48)
OPERATING SYSTEM - Windows XP Home SP2 with Vista upgrade voucher (£55.17)

All up it comes to under GBP £1000.00. My plans are to overclock the E6600 from it's stock 2.4ghz up to around 2.9 or 3ghz mark which should be fairly easy to attain. I cannot believe the great value of the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600. This thing is on par at stock speeds with the AMD FX-62 in many tests. In the UK the FX-62 retails for around £450 quid which is well over twice the price of what I payed for the E6600.

I opted for the Nvidia 7900GS graphics card as the best bang for buck card at present. I would rather hold off on the Dx10 cards for a year and a half before then making the move up. I expect my system to be fast yet pretty quiet also. Hopefully I will be able to post some pics of my build and benchies once up and running some time after the new year.

I think I will be in for a shock once my rig is built. My current system is an old AMD Athlon XP1900+ with 1024mb SDRAM memory and a Nvidia GeForce 4 4400 128mb card. It is noisy, slow, and getting towards 5 years old now.

The new rig should run SHIII, SHIV, Lomac series, Il2 Forgotten Battles series, RTW and MTWII in all their glory. Wish me luck.