Take the plunge? time for a complete rebuild

[ViperMichael]

Last couple of PC where bought by parents, but they will only spend so much.
System is going to be for games mostly

Had a:

Dell 9100:
Procesor: Pentium D 820
Graphics Card: 7800GTX 256mb
Memory: 2gb ddr2 533mhz ram
Hard Drive: 320gb hard drive
Motherboard: Cut down dell one (crap)
O/S: Windows XP Home
Monitor: 19 inch 1280x1024 standar screen

New PC I will get will be custom built, is this over kill and are there a suggestions that would help.

Case: Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 Black
Procesor: E6700 (don't see value in the extra money for quad core it doesn't help all that much in games)
Graphics Card: 2 x 8800GTX SLi Point of View GeForce 8800GTX Extreme ed (is the card manufacture anygood)
Memory: 4gb Corsair 6400C4
Hard Drive: Seagate 400gb 7200.10
Motherboard: ABIT IN9 32X-MAX WiFi, nForce-680i SLI (HAS A 1333MHZ bus, and you can vary the voltage on the procesor. So i should be able to put a Penryn in??)
O/S: Vista 64 bit (as 32 bit will not page more than 4gb of memory in total, How are drivers these days??)
Power Supply: Tagan TurboJet 1100W (or is the, OCZ Technology Powersupply ATX/EPS 1000W, better it is noise though)
Monitor: Acer 22" LCD X222W (any better suggestions, LG226WT maybe)

Last thoughts:

Will the PC be overclockable especially the procesor?
I may buy the matching water cooling system for the case, Gigabyte 3D Galaxy II. Is this worth it, will it help the system that much. Since I may overclock the CPU in the long run?

 

[swtethan]

you should buy a e6420 and overclock, but if you have the $$$ for a 6700 and dont want to oc, then do it

SLi cards are a beast, so no problem there

you shouldnt go water if you only want to oc to something like 3.2ghz, the thermalright IFX-14 is coming soon, or you can get a ultra-120 extreme

 

[Sentry2]

Looks good but...

If you're gonna get a pair of 8800GTX's I'd go with eVGA in case you ever have to rma one. I'd also consider going with an eVGA 680i A1 board too. The Abit is a good board but I haven't personally owned one so I couldn't tell you. Maybe an E6600 instead of an E6700 since you'd like to overclock. I have the Tagan 1100W Tagan(U95) and it's been great so far. It doesn't have any 8 pin pci-e connectors though. I also have an Enermax 1000W EWL DX10 rev. supply and it seems ok so far.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought Vista 64 was still kinda shakey for SLI.

Overkill......what's that???

Anyway, looks good man.

 

[BernardP]

I would still go with Vista 32-bit. With the 64-bit version, there will be too many drivers/apps that you won't be able to install.

2GB is enough memory with Vista, so adressing 4GB is not such an issue

I also suggest that you get two HD and partition them like this:

Drive 1: C (System) / D(Data Backup)
Drive 2: E (pagefile-small partition) / F (Data)

 

[ViperMichael]

overkill, means is the system to high spec is it to much.

Never overclocked before so i think the faster CPU to start with would help, though i don't know how easy or stable it is to overclock. I can always install 32-bit to start and then go 64-bit, if i have the retail version so that is probably what i will do for the first few months till i need more then 2.5 gb ram.

With the tagan 1100w u95, will you think that i would be better to have 8 pin pci-e or is that a long way off, can i get adapters e.g molex+6 pin pci-e = 8 pin pci-e??? Can a CPU 8 pin be used as a 8pin pci-e???

And i thought Nvidia said that it was going to try a stop the increases in power requiremnts in future GPU's