Hey guys, so here is a friends build for a gaming computer. We arn't to techsavvy and so are getting confused with all the graphics cards and especially with the motherboard!
OK so here is what we thought of so far, sorry for no links.
CPU-Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 Ghz 8Mb Cache
RAM-4Gb Corsair Memory DDR2 800 - 4 x 1GB
Hard drive-300GB SATA Hard Drive
Power Supply-Atrix 800Watt Silent Dual Fan
GPU-640Mb Nvidia 8800GTS graphics card DX10
MB-ASUS P5N-ESLI 1333fsb-DDR800x4 SLI motherboard
Optical drive-Samsung DVD +/- Re-writer
Sound card-Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme sound card
OS-Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premiem 64-bit (OEM)
Case- Gigabyte Poseidon Silver( want the case to look professional, not all lit up with LEDs and such)
No monitor, using old one, probably going to buy a better one a few months later.
OK so one big question is about the graphics cards. I heard is good but you can get similar performance in cheaper cards. SO is the card chosen good for new games coming out? ( If not please can you give details why the card you choose is better, because we are kinda confused)
Also with the motherboard, we thought we'd choose SLI just in case we want to buy another card as an upgrade later on. SO is this board any good? Also my friend does not want to go into overclocking so that overclocking performance isn't the main issue here.
So basically can you comment on ways to improve this, if you are going to post links remember we are in England so it's going to have to be an English site. Any help would be great, but try to explain simply
OK so here is what we thought of so far, sorry for no links.
CPU-Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 Ghz 8Mb Cache
RAM-4Gb Corsair Memory DDR2 800 - 4 x 1GB
Hard drive-300GB SATA Hard Drive
Power Supply-Atrix 800Watt Silent Dual Fan
GPU-640Mb Nvidia 8800GTS graphics card DX10
MB-ASUS P5N-ESLI 1333fsb-DDR800x4 SLI motherboard
Optical drive-Samsung DVD +/- Re-writer
Sound card-Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme sound card
OS-Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premiem 64-bit (OEM)
Case- Gigabyte Poseidon Silver( want the case to look professional, not all lit up with LEDs and such)
No monitor, using old one, probably going to buy a better one a few months later.
OK so one big question is about the graphics cards. I heard is good but you can get similar performance in cheaper cards. SO is the card chosen good for new games coming out? ( If not please can you give details why the card you choose is better, because we are kinda confused)
Also with the motherboard, we thought we'd choose SLI just in case we want to buy another card as an upgrade later on. SO is this board any good? Also my friend does not want to go into overclocking so that overclocking performance isn't the main issue here.
So basically can you comment on ways to improve this, if you are going to post links remember we are in England so it's going to have to be an English site. Any help would be great, but try to explain simply