New Rig

[Viper5]

Hey guys,

Anyone see a glaring problem with this rig?

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/i...nfigurator_top

Will upgrade to 2 Gigs of RAM and a better vid card

[trogdor1289]

It's from Cyberpower?

[NYgurkha]

umm, crappy CPU (only 1.86 dual core!), your using a onboard sound card, low RAM, SATA drives when you could be useing RAID. Your not gonna be able to use the 8800 at all with this setup IMHO.

[Garabaldi]

Originally Posted by NYgurkha

umm, crappy CPU (only 1.86 dual core!), your using a onboard sound card, low RAM, SATA drives when you could be useing RAID. Your not gonna be able to use the 8800 at all with this setup IMHO.

The 6300 is a very good CPU, although I would bump it up to a 6400 if I were you.

ONboard sound is actually pretty good nowadays, but if you want to splooge, get an X-Fi.

He said he's going to put in more RAM.

[Viper5]

Did a lil customizing and here's what i got:

CPU-Sckt775)Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 CPU @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 2x2MB L2 Cache EM64T

Motherboard-Quad-Core Supports) Asus P5N-E nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard

2 GB DDR2 RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB 16X PCI Express

160GB (80GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM

Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2

Total of $1602.00

[JohnnyPissoff]

I'd spring the extra 30 bucks and get the "Creative Labs SB Audigy SE" hardware sound card over that on-board you selected. Other than that your system looks solid to me. Although I gotta say I looked into CyberPower twice and ended up both times going with: http://www.abscomputers.com/

[trogdor1289]

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ DUO T2350 (1.86GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM FREE Upgrade to Genuine Windows Vista™ Home
LCD PANEL17 inch Wide Screen XGA+ TFT Display with TrueLife™(glossy)
MEMORY 1GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz
HARD DRIVE 120GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
OPTICAL DRIVE 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R
VIDEO CARD 256MB ATI MOBILITY™ RADEON® X1400 HyperMemory
SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Audio

Seems a good system to me.

[Cherni]

Thats a really good price

[Long Bow]

Viper5 the second system you posted looks realy good. A couple of things, you don't show the PSU or Screen your using? Don't under estimate the PSU, I would recommend the Corsair 520w or 620w both could handle that system. The 620w can actually run 8800GTX in SLI so it would be a little more future proof. If you are going with a 22" + LCD I would strongly suggest the 8800GTS 640mb, the extra ram become important on the big LCD's.

If you are willing to do a bit of learning and tweaking you could drop down to a 6420 cpu and OC it a bit to match (or beat if you want to farther) the 6600 cpu. The C2D cpu are huge overclockers so you could buy cheap and OC up extremoverclocking.com is great site for more info and guides.

Trogdor1289- I see allot weak points in that system, sorry.

[loyalguard]

Originally Posted by [R-PUB]Viper5

Did a lil customizing and here's what i got:

CPU-Sckt775)Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 CPU @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 2x2MB L2 Cache EM64T

Motherboard-Quad-Core Supports) Asus P5N-E nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard

2 GB DDR2 RAM

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB 16X PCI Express

160GB (80GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM

Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 2

Total of $1602.00

Viper-

I think these are pretty good hardware choices overall. I just built almost this same exact system. The only difference was a 250GB hardrive with a 16MB cache, and antec tru power trio 650W PSU and a 20X DVD/CD Reader writer (you didn't list a PSU or Optical drive). I paid $1350 with rebates and shipping, so, I would recommend building it yourself to save a lot of cash.

Also FYI, according to the Inquirer Intel readies more price cuts , Now that AMD has officially announced their Phenom line more Intel price cuts are coming soon.