Hey all, I got the upgrade bug recently and started researching again. My current setup: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (Winchester) MSI M8N Neo2 Platinum Mobo 2 GB Corsair XMS DDR400 RAM eVGA GeForce 6800 GS Creative Audigy 2 120GB WD SATA harddrive 17" ViewSonic VA720 LCD Enermax Noisetaker 420W psu It's been a sweet rig for some time now, but the games caught up and surpassed it a while ago and I'm now playing Vanguard which is hungry for video and memory. I'm also getting back into FPS games. Proposed Setup: Intel Core 2 Duo e6600 Conroe 2.4GHz mobo: undecided 2 GB Corsair XMS DDR800 RAM (or should I go 1066?) eVGA 8800 GTS 640MB Creative X-Fi Fatalit1y Dell E228WFP 22-inch WideScreen LCD psu: undecided I'm in need of help on deciding my motherboard and psu. I'm not sure if I want to overclock, if I do it won't be anything serious requiring a liquid cooling system. I want a mobo that is stable and with not too many bells and whistles; I don't need on-board sound/video or any other special features like wireless or remotes and the like. Please feel free to suggest something else from what I have on my Proposed List and what I listed for mobo's and psu's, I'm all ears. I've been building my own rigs for as long as I can remember and this would be the first time switching to Intel.
Ordering within the next few days... Intel e6600 Core 2 Duo Conroe 2.4GHz eVGA nForce 680i SLI Corsair XMS DDR2 800 (2 x 1GB) eVGA nVidia 8800 GTS Superclocked 640MB OCZ GameXStream 700W PSU Dell 22" E228WFP Widescreen LCD I'm going to keep my Audigy 2 soundcard for now after hearing the bad reviews on the X-Fi Fatal1ty cards.
I got it all built and set up this past weekend. It's pretty damn sweet so far. I wish I had gotten a modular PSU so I didn't have a ton of extra cabling. I'll have to figure something out to solve this rat's nest. Old ViewSonic VA720 17"... New Dell 22" widescreen... I didn't take pictures through the rest of the process since I was dying to get it put together and get it running. Plus the rat's nest didn't look pleasing.