- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: ImSpartacus
Posted by: Iwantcable
If you want an 8800, you're going to need an E6600 or better (Sorry, don't know AMDs) to prevent bottlenecking.
My rig is basically the bottom-line of being able to fully take advantage of the 8800GTS (if that makes any sense).
Processor: Intel C2D E6600 @ 2.40GHz
Memory: OCZ Gold 1GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) x 2
Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI (650i)
Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 7200RPM 160GB
Video Card: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS Superclocked
PSU: Antec TruePower 650 watt
Monitor: Samsung 204B 1600x1200
Sound Card: Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Professional Series
Speakers/Headphones: Icemat Siberia Headphones
Keyboard: Logitech G15
Mouse: Microsoft/Razer Habu
OS: Vista Home Premium 32bit
aside from some differences in ram brands, that is just about identical to what i was looking at. how is that motherboard working for you? i heard some ultra bad things about the p5n-32e or something like that, the 680i version anyway.
other than that, i was going for that cpu, psu, and the gpu.
i might go down to the 7600 gt, or something like that till crysis and all the other kickass cards come out, but that cpu is locked in, perfect price, proformance ratio. flucking perfect.
The motherboard works great, I haven't had any problems with it (even with Vista). If you want to go up to the 680i, you should check out the eVGA one, I heard it was better than the ASUS 680i.
I haven't even OCed the CPU yet, I know I can easily hit 3.0GHz though with stock cooling (I have an Antec 900 w/2 extra fans).
The whole thing cost me ~$1500 (I already had the monitor, mouse, and keyboard). You should be able to save some money if you use eVGA's step-up program and wait until the 8 series cards drop to upgrade.
[Edited on 3/15/2007]