[Shamal]

Can you please provide any input on what kind of hardware I should get for my new system Im building. There is no limit on budget. System will be mainly used for gaming.

So far, I've made up my mind about getting the following:

Intel Core 2 E6600
Seagate SATA II 320GB x 2
7950GX2
Viper Case

Can you recommend what I should get for the following:

RAM (2GB)
MOTHER BOARD (Will not be running SLi)
7950GX2 (Is there any difference of performance between the brand names i.e.ASUS, XFX, EVGA?

Thanks to all of you in advance.

[benheaven1]

Hello,

As far as i know you have to have an "SLI Motherboard" in order to use the 7950GX2 i may be wrong tho

I would try and get the fastest DDR2 ram that your motherboard can support

Nice Setup

Ben

This post has been edited by benheaven1: 05 October 2006 - 01:06 AM

[nitroshift]

Shamal, on Oct 5 2006, 07:04 AM, said:

Can you please provide any input on what kind of hardware I should get for my new system Im building. There is no limit on budget. System will be mainly used for gaming.

So far, I've made up my mind about getting the following:

Intel Core 2 E6600
Seagate SATA II 320GB x 2
7950GX2
Viper Case

Can you recommend what I should get for the following:

RAM (2GB)
MOTHER BOARD (Will not be running SLi)
7950GX2 (Is there any difference of performance between the brand names i.e.ASUS, XFX, EVGA?

Thanks to all of you in advance.

For RAM I'd go either for Crucial Ballistics or Mushkin with highest frequencies available (and supported by your mobo)
For mobo, (OK, I might be biased) go for Gigabyte. Very stable, easy overclocking, plenty of features.
For GFX, I'd go for either BFG or XFX.

That's my 2 cents

[ripken204]

video card is fine, but maybe look into the top of the line ati cards too.
for ram mushkin, gskill, geil, corsair, all is good.

[Shamal]

Thanks for all the info. I was hoping to get some specific models of hardware who's had experiences with a similar setup.

I can't choose which one, so what do you think about the following models;

RAM
OCZ 2GB PC2 6400 DDR2 800 PLATINUM XTC RAM corsair 4-5-4-15 - OCZ2P8002GK
OCZ 2GB PC2-5400 DDR2 667 Gold eXtreme faster corsair 4-4-4-12 - OCZ26672048ELGEGXT-K

Motherboard
ASUS P5B i965
ASUS P5B DELUXE i965
GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3
GIGABYTE GA-965P-S3

[ripken204]

get the pc2-6400 only if u want to overclock, otherwise get the pc2-5400

as for mobo, i prefer the gigabyte ds3, but if u dont need all of the extra features then get the s3