P5K, 8800GT(X), PC6400 & E6850/Q6600 - Standard for 11/'07?

[brianosaur]

After reading and posting many threads, over and over and over again, based on the best price/performance ratio it seems like these parts are highly recommended by you guys (as of Nov '07) for the core of a new system.

Asus' P5K (P35 chipset) motherboards
Intel Core Duo E6850 or Core Quad Q6600 cpu (buyers needs)
Corsair DDR2 800 (PC6400) Cas Lat 5
EVGA GeForce 8800GT or 8800GTX video card (buyers budget)

I looked at lots of Tom's benchmarks and see why you do so.

I wanted to make sure this is the way to go, so plz correct me if I'm wrong.

Lastly, I still am looking at psu's and trying to figure the consensus of this forum. (will update when I figure that one out)

[Added:]
CORSAIR PSU's are what I keep reading about here and are being pointed toward.

The CORSAIR CMPSU-550VX ATX12V V2.2 550W was rec to me.

[mwhaha]

Well, they are good quality, and near enough the best quality you can get.
I would get the quad core, since it is better in the long term. With the graphics improving on games, all cores may be used in next year or so...

Crucial ballistix memory is pretty good, but quite expensive. If you want a top of the range graphics card wait until the nvidia 9 series come out this month(hopefully)

For a PSU, corsair are good, and there 750W + range is should be an option you are looking at(leave some space for future upgrades)

I would recommend the new 160gb raptor, but if you can't afford it go for like a 500 gb seagate or something, or both if you can

[brianosaur]

I was already leaning quad and I have two 10k SATA I Raptors (raid 0) already. (as per my other posts)

It has been suggested that SATA II has negligible performance improvements, so I was just going to reuse the hdd's I have.

Thanks for the psu tip. As far a ram & vc I guess I was posting the suggested best PRICE/PERFORMANCE ratio, not the most-bestest higher priced stuff, but thanks.

[wildfire]

The E6750 is best price/performance, not the E6850.
6850 = $300, 3ghz
6750 = $200 2.66ghz
340 mhz is not worth $100.

Also the good PSU's are in the link, go for the ones in blue.
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=131195
I like Corsair, Fortron, Antec, OCZ, PC Power and Cooling and Seasonic.

[perkster]

seagate 320gb SATA hard drive is best with 16mb Cache
lite-on retail DVD drives SATA
There are 4 or 5 main good PSU manufacturers
the other parts you mention are pretty much the best ones, some can go for 667mhz ram and save some money, for soem processors P5B are also still good