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Aldhissla

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Hello world! I've been thinking of building a new computer from scratch for a couple of months and now I've come up with something that seems quite pleasing. The purpose of the machine is gaming and also a bit of music production. I live in Finland meaning the parts won't be available for me at the same price as on newegg.com so I put a finnish store's ones in brackets.

So, the specs are:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale (179€)
- I had a hard time choosing between AMD and Intel, and decided to go with Intel, but after reading in some guide here that AMD is the way to go for gaming I began wondering again. So should I go with AMD or does it even matter that much nowadays?

Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R (114€)
- Damn motherboards, I had absolutely no idea what to choose and because these Gigabyte ones seemed quite popular I thought I'd pick this. The DS3L seemed a bit more popular and a bit cheaper, but the store I'm gonna buy from (remember I live in Finland) didn't seem to have that model :(
- Comments on this one would be really appreciated

Memory: Kingston HyperX 2GB Kit DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) (79€)

3D-Card: EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR GeForce 8800GT Superclocked 512MB 256-bit (290€)

Case: Antec 900 (109€)

PSU: Thermaltake toughpower W0117RU ATX12V / EPS12V 750W (124€)

OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit (117€)
- Programs do work on Vista these days, right? Or should I find myself a good ole' XP somewhere?

+processor cooler + hard-drive (I probably don't need advice with these, unless you really really want to share your opinions on these too)

In case you should recommend another mobo or a case: The mobo must have at least 1 firewire place, and I'd really prefer a firewire plug in the front panel of the case.

So, if there is a major bottleneck or perhaps an overkill part please let me know and all opinions and recommendations in general would be nice. Hope I didn't miss any important info..

Thanks in advance! :)
 
Drop the "SuperClocked" and go for a GTS G92...

And a OCZ GameXStream 700W would power that... and is much cheaper.

Vista and XP is plainly your choice.
 
Aldhissla said:
Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R (114€)
- Damn motherboards, I had absolutely no idea what to choose and because these Gigabyte ones seemed quite popular I thought I'd pick this. The DS3L seemed a bit more popular and a bit cheaper, but the store I'm gonna buy from (remember I live in Finland) didn't seem to have that model :(
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The only difference between the DS3L and DS3R is the ability to run a RAID with the DS3R. It's too bad the DS3L isn't available, but, the DS3R is just as good.
 
oscaryu1 said:
Drop the "SuperClocked" and go for a GTS G92...

And a OCZ GameXStream 700W would power that... and is much cheaper.
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I shall go with the GTS G92, aye, but the GameXStream 700W (116.40€) is only 7.60€ cheaper than the toughpower 750W (124€) Where I'm gonna buy it. Actually, the 124€ one is a "Cable Management" version of it, and the non-"cable management" costs only 109€. Wonder if they've got their prices right on the site..

About the mobo, I don't know what RAID does/is, so I guess I'm not going to use it, but the one you recommended had DDR2 1066 as it's memory standard, and the RAM I decided to go with was DDR2 800, do you think it would work with it? Also, which is better, DDR2 800 with 4-4-4-12 or 1066 with 5-5-5-15?
 
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Aldhissla said:
I shall go with the GTS G92, aye, but the GameXStream 700W (116.40€) is only 7.60€ cheaper than the toughpower 750W (124€) Where I'm gonna buy it. Actually, the 124€ one is a "Cable Management" version of it, and the non-"cable management" costs only 109€. Wonder if they've got their prices right on the site..
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Get the Toughpower if the prices you're quoting are correct.

Aldhissla said:
About the mobo, I don't know what RAID does/is, so I guess I'm not going to use it, but the one you recommended had DDR2 1066 as it's memory standard, and the RAM I decided to go with was DDR2 800, do you think it would work with it? Also, which is better, DDR2 800 with 4-4-4-12 or 1066 with 5-5-5-15?
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Don't worry about RAID. I was only pointing out the differences. :) You can use the DDR2 800 on that board, and, I think that would be the best choice.
 
Heh, I was going to thank and close the case, but then I noticed that the GA-P35-DS3R doesn't have any firewire places.

Thus I'm in need of another motherboard after all. Recommendations?

Edit: I've decided to go with Gigabyte's GA-P35-DS4. Thanks for the help :)
 
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