Building a gaming PC - please review components

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azwebs

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Well, these are the new specs for my mates' gaming pc. Was just wondering if someone could check them over for us.

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Vista will be upgraded to Ultimate 64 bit using a disk from school, and we have a screen (22"), keyboard, mouse and SATA cables.

Thanks for any help.
 
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gratefully_dead

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Nice looking rig. If you have a few extra dollars to invest in it tho I'd suggest getting a faster model of the quad core. I have the Q6600 personally and I've been nothing but satisfied with it, but for a few extra bucks you could even upgrade it to the Q6700 and get that much extra clockspeed
 
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azwebs

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Yeah, thanks for that. It will probably be overclocked anyway, as the Antec has 1 x 20cm top fan, 2 x 12cm front fans cooling hdd and board, and 2 x 12cm fans, 1 rear and 1 side. It also has the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro cooling it, and I've heard people getting stable clocks at 3.7ghz with that combination.

It'll probably only be OC'ed to 3.0ghz though. I had heard that the Q6600 was better for overclock. What's your opinions?

Thanks again.
 
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azwebs

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Also, the Q6700 is about £80 more expensive (about $100 atm I think). So I think the overclocked Q6600 (for less than £880) is the way to go to be honest.
 
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azwebs

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So what you think about all those then? I'm gonna order this later today for delivery on Tuesday if you guys give the go-ahead.
 
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BlackRat

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I have used that ASUS 2 times and sweared not to buy it anymore, one time I could barely start the computer, the other one it would not remember any overclock settings. If I would need 750i I would get only EVGA FTW, but I know it costs more. That's why I have switched to P45 boards, Intel chipsets seem to be better/stable overclockers
 
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