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Hi every 1, im building my computer for the first time and would like to see what othere people think about it sinds no 1 in my falimy are computer geeks besides me :P

I want to use it for gaming. i dont want to go over the 900 euro, sorry dont know how much that is in dollars.

im buying every thing form a webshop in my country (holland) so i will try and link every thing to Newegg.

I'm thinking of:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037

XFX nForce 780i SLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813141005

XFX GeForce 88000GTS 320MB
http://www.komplett.nl/k/ki.aspx?sku=331407&view=detailed#ProductTabs (not on newegg or tigerdirect)

OCZ DDR2 PC6400 2048MB KIT (2X 1024MB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227231

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320BG SATA2 16MB 72000RM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140

XION Powersupply ATX 600W Retail SLI
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817190012&Tpk=XION+600W

NZXT ALPHA Black <- need your comments on this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146041&Tpk=NZXT+ALPHA+Black
(Side fan should be placed lower to blow on the graphics card (8800 GTS), right now it blows right above mine, wish it blew right below it to put fresh air into the graphics card fan. <- what do you think of that?)

Any comments are welcome

thank you and sorry for my bad eng!!!!!!
 
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yeah, that all looks pretty solid. Are you sure the side fan will be above the GPU? Even if it is, it will create low air pressure above the gpu, causing the air around the GPU to be lifted up (creating air movement around the card). And the card has a cooler on it already, so that fan isnt your primary source of GPU cooling, you know what I mean?

But yeah, that all sounds great. Good luck with it, that case is pretty cool too.

Let us know if you have any more questions or if you need help with your build, everyone here is happy to help.
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If anything, you may want to consider 4 gb of ram, assuming you are using vista (8 series GPU). It will give you more headroom, and it is soon going to be what is desired in a gaming computer, as 2gb was for a while. You'll be fine with 2 GB of RAM, but with how cheap DDR2 RAM is now, why not?
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it should be fine to use on XP. A lot of companies are just using the whole vista thing for name brand recognition, so that cutstomers are like, oh! hey! vista! lol. And you are correct, it'll only detect like 3.25 of it. Its really up to you, if you get it you're gaining 1.25 gbs and if you dont, your kinda losing 1.25. So its really up to you.
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ok thx and is it possible to add the 2X 1GB (OCZ DDR2 PC6400 2048MB KIT) and some thing of 1GB ? ty
 
Umm, it depends on if the 2 RAM kits are compatable and if you mobo supports that. The thing with that is that even if it works its probably going to bottleneck at one of the two RAMs, meaning that it has to slow down so that the other RAM kit can keep up.
 
oooo well in that case i will go for the 2GB or the 4GB the games i play the most are:
Battlefield 2
Unreal Tournament 3
World of Warcraft
and ATM im realy having problems at high settings.

And BTW i want to OC the CPU, i read that it can be easily OCed to 4.0Mhz but i need to cheak on that but my question is do you know if i should get a beter cooling? i never OCed the CPU far.
 
Yes, for oc'ing you need good cooling. Most people us liquid cooling, but lots of fans are fine.
 
yeah a core2 is stable up to 3 or 4

3 is easy with air
for 4 liquid cooling is best

some cpus may only go to about 3.4/3.6 stable, it all seems to depend on the individual chip.
 
isn't the mobo fsb a little low for overclocking the e8400? i think you'll better be going with a 1600 ghz fsb mobo
 
ichundu said:
isn't the mobo fsb a little low for overclocking the e8400? i think you'll better be going with a 1600 ghz fsb mobo
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It just means it supports that high of a processor's FSB...

If you're overclocking DDR2-800 memory, you don't need a DDR2-1000 supported motherboard.
 
aaaa ok thx

and what is the differentes from the Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 and the E8400? ty
 
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ok got the computer in the mail today :D

i put every thing together and when i press the power button on the Mobo (il tell you why later) every thing lights up and fans start spinning, BUT he shutesdown after like 30sec.
This is what comes up when i start the computer:
t first he start cheking the hardware and he asks me if i want to go on (press F1) or go in your Bios (press del), ethere 2 he shutsdown.

I will be happy with any help.
 
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