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croden
01-07-2007, 07:32 PM
After much reading these are the choices I've arrived at, please let me know if it all looks good, I have never used Intel before. I will be ordering next week and I'll be using this as my gaming pc. I already have the optical drives, keyboard, mouse, and lcd, will be migrating them from my current pc. I am also holding on to my Nvidia 7600GT for the time being, I'll upgrade the graphics card when DX10 comes about I'm thinking.

Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811146018

PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817189005

CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819115004

MoBo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131070

Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145566

HDD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140

I plan on overclocking a bit and will be taking the cooler off of my current AMD chip and moving it onto the new Intel rig, I just like the way it looks and it has served me well so far.

CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835106069

Also, I plan on later purchasing another GB of ram - is it best to get 2 1GB sticks from the get-go or do 4 512mb sticks perform as adequately? I just wanted to keep initial cost down a bit, and those 2 GB kits are pricy.

All input is welcome, I just need to make sure I'm not missing some glaring incompatibility...

Thanks for any info

glc
01-07-2007, 08:39 PM
Everything is okay except the Goodpower - that's not one of the better XClios.

croden
01-07-2007, 09:31 PM
Thank you, is this one better?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103937

I'm not sure if I even need that much power but I figured better safe than sorry.

Mr.Ferrari
01-07-2007, 09:38 PM
If your looking at DX10 with your powersupply then im afraid that the minimum i'm comfortable with is this:
Corsair HX 520W (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817139001)$120
or
Xclio 600W (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817189007) $100 <--Great Sale

If that breaks the bank then you could go with a good placeholder psu:
Xclio 450BL (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817189003) $40

croden
01-07-2007, 11:34 PM
Really that much wattage? I'd rather get what I'm going to need now than have to just get another PSU later, I'm probably gonna opt for the X-Clio then. Thanks

newbuilder14
01-08-2007, 06:54 AM
The 450bl then, right? The FSP 450w is also not a bad unit.