New PC

[Tedrik]

Hello all building a new pc and wonting to now your opinion about it

Prices are in euros and only from shops from where i live Portugal Lisbon because in same cases the costs of shiping dont compensate

The pc is not only for AH but for work mostly MsOffice related and for other games mostly strategy games including the new ones using diretx10

PCU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850-€264 or
Intel Core 2 Duo (Conroe)6600-€270

Board
Asus Striker Extreme-€294 or
Asus P5K Premium/WiFi-AP €235

Memory
Already have 2G ddr2 800MHZ maybe getting 2 moreG?(just for fun)

Hard Disk
Hitachi 500GB 7200rpm 16mb cache Sata II-€105

Video Card
GIGA NVIDIA G8800GTX 768mb DDVI HDTV-€520 or
XFX GF 8800 GTS 320mb XXX-€320
bigest doubt is it worth it to get the 8800gtx instead of 8800GTS cause most of time using 1240*1024 resolutions

Box
Coolermaster Centurion 532 Black-€65 or
Nox Coolbay Window Black €-54

Power
Xilence 700W 2.2 Gaming Edition €-85 or
Nox Urano 600W Sli €-45

Still missing cooler ,so many that i didnt had time or patience to look at them hehe

Cd dvd players recorders mouse keyboard sound coluns already have

So what you guys think ,wht changes ,what big errors, whatever, need opinions

all and thx

[wabbit]

I've been recommending Asus boards to my clients for years. There's a recent review on the P5K series here;

http://www.techspot.com/article/61-intel-p35-motherboard-roundup/


Don't know anything about the other board, so I'd suggest doing some searching for reviews on it before deciding. You can't go wrong with the Asus P5K, and I'd say go with the P5K-E unless you really want the wifi and added features.






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[Fulmar]

All but one of my builds has not been an Asus board.  I've always had great performance and no technical issues with at least half a dozen models.  

However, the website is either near the center of the earth, or running off 5 2400 baud modems.