hey guys, well im looking to buy a rig and since nothing really impress me for the price, I decided to try and make my own.I'd like comments, advice,anything :) 

Core 2 Duo - E6750 - 2.66 GHz - Socket775 - L2 cache - 4 MB

M93-00441 WINDOWS MEDIA CENTER 2005 FRANCAIS OEM

ST3500630AS SEAGATE BARRACUDA 500GB 7200RPM SATA II 16MB 3GB/SEC NCQ

EN8800GTS/HTDP/A3S2U0MS EN8800GTS/HTDP/320M DIRECTX 10.0 PCI-E

970223-0403 LOGITECH X-540 SPEAKER AVEC CONTROL

KVR800D2E5K2/2GKINGSTON 2X1GB PC2-6400 800MHz DDR2 ECC CL5

P5N-E-SLI ASUS P5N-E-SLI NFORCE 4 S775 READY CORE 2 DUO

DVR-112DBK PIONEER 112D NOIR DVD GRAVEUR 18X +/- D LAYER +/- 10X OEM

*** CoolerMaster Unit 600 Watts eXtreme Power - SLI Supports

30SB061000000 SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 4 SE OEM

That looks good, but have you though of Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850 for your processor, its 2 cores run at 3G and with 1333MHz bus speed at 8MB L2 cache, you cannot go wrong.  Or if thats too much for you try the Pentium D 960, its 2 cores run at 3.6G with 800MHz cache.

I don't know what your budget is, but you should try for 4GB Ram for extra boost.  Other than that, looks like it'll be a sweet rig.

Cheers.

I'll definitly look into the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850  I still have a good 800$ left before reaching my 2500$ budget,if its that much better, ill get it :) thank for your input

Originally posted by Ibexto

That looks good, but have you though of Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850 for your processor, its 2 cores run at 3G and with 1333MHz bus speed at 8MB L2 cache, you cannot go wrong.  Or if thats too much for you try the Pentium D 960, its 2 cores run at 3.6G with 800MHz cache.

I don't know what your budget is, but you should try for 4GB Ram for extra boost.  Other than that, looks like it'll be a sweet rig.

Cheers.

The quad core is a good call, but why would he want to go down from a C2D to a Pentium D?

System looks good to me. I would rather get a single 150GB Raptor hard drive instead of a 500GB though. Maybe you have a lot of music or movies, I don't know, but 150GB is plenty for all of the games I play. If you have a lot of movies and music, I would put them on an external drive.

Originally posted by -Jaguar-

System looks good to me. I would rather get a single 150GB Raptor hard drive instead of a 500GB though. Maybe you have a lot of music or movies, I don't know, but 150GB is plenty for all of the games I play. If you have a lot of movies and music, I would put them on an external drive.

the new high capacity drives are almost as fast as the raptors.  The new terabyte drives provide nearly identical performance.  I just got two 750 gig drives this morning for under $400.  Can't wait to put them in a raid 0 in the new computer I'm building.

Originally posted by Ibexto

That looks good, but have you though of Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850 for your processor, its 2 cores run at 3G and with 1333MHz bus speed at 8MB L2 cache, you cannot go wrong.  Or if thats too much for you try the Pentium D 960, its 2 cores run at 3.6G with 800MHz cache.

I don't know what your budget is, but you should try for 4GB Ram for extra boost.  Other than that, looks like it'll be a sweet rig.

Cheers.

  Uhh what! "800MHz cache"? Since when? Now I could be wrong but I don't think CPU cache has a front side bus. The E6750 is 250$ the QX6850 is like 1300 dollars. Now! I don't know his budget either but judging by the cost of the rest of his parts I don't think a QX6850 is in his toilet. Note the QX6850 is a total waste of money. A 400mhz increase in clockspeed doesn't justify the extra 3 or 400$ price jump. As the other person pointed out why would you get a Pentium D? Why go from a 65nm goodness to a worse architecture a generally hotter chip and not to mention more power hungry and slower.

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Originally posted by trillah

I'll definitly look into the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850  I still have a good 800$ left before reaching my 2500$ budget,if its that much better, ill get it :) thank for your input

  Er! totally missed this post. Even with the money I wouldn't go with a QX6850. But then again it's not my money, so. . .

If you got the extra cash I'd get the Geforce8800GTX instead of the GTS.

ya go for the GTX instead i've had both and there is a huge difference. 4GB ram doesn't work properly as far as i understand in XP so don't get that unless you are going for vista. also get the cheaper processor and OC it and its just as good as the $1k  cpu. save your money there, you will get the same performance... also its better to get mature technology so when there is a problem with it some one else will have already had it. new stuff has new problems and good luck figuring out whats wrong with it.

i'd save money on the processor and go for a 24" ws HDTV LCD! 8) my gf is making me wait until xmas to get mine =\

How does my new pc look? Any recommended changes?

Thanks

Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX6850 (8MB,3.67GHz Factory overclocked)

Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate

4GB Corsair Dominator DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz OC'd to 1066MHz-4 DIMMs

24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407WFP Widescreen Digital Flat Panel

Dual 768MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra

320GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 160GB WD Raptor SATA 1.5Gb/s 10,000 RPM HDDs)

Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer (D) Sound Card

AGEIA® PhysX® physics accelerator

1 kilowatt Power Supply

Im hoping i crank Vanguard up and run a step above balanced settings!