H-Sauce Destruction Blue Storm: Custom PC

[H-Sauce]

PC Components

ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi £110
ACRYLIC TRANSPARENT CASE :P £56.40

OCZ 600W Game XStream Psu SLI Ready £58
Q6600 £130
G-SKILL - PC2-6400 CL5 2 x 2 GB DDR2-800 PC Memory  £55
SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY   Radeon HD 4870 - 512 MB GDDR5 - PCI-Express 2.0 £159
Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB SATAII 16MB Cache 3.5 inch Internal Hard Drive OEM £53.95
Scythe Infinity/Mugen CPU Cooler £31.71
Elasticated Anti-Static Wrist Strap only £8.93
Samsung SH-D163B 16x DVD-ROM Drive £17.23
Arctic Silver 5 3.5g Thermal Paste

Accessories

Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 1000 Standard Keyboard + Optical Mouse £24.93
Gaming Pad £14.99
Crysis Warhead £14.98
USB 5.0M Pixel 6LED Webcam £3.99

TOTAL: ~£800

parts list (and you can probably guess what im gonna do with it )

also with/without the overclock, what gam scores would i be able to get out of it (ie crysis, cod4, GRID etc.)

thanks in advance

[loganbyers07]

okay well it all looks good but the only problem i see is the power. you need more power. the 4870 takes a lot of power. I  should have planned for the future and went with a power supply that supplies 600 watts of continuos power. I got a 520 watt corsiar through.
but yea I would prob invest in a 750 watt corsair if i where you.

[psp339]

With the Q6600, you would get at least 3.0GHz at stock vcore.

[H-Sauce]

yeah, i mean i saw someon get it up to 3.4 staying within intels guidelines for voltages with this same motherboard. im a complete noob ocing, so i dont know if this memory will be alrite or  not

[psp339]

I would rather get this memory instead. http://www.amazon.co.uk/G-SKILL-PC2-6400-CL5-DDR2-800-Memory/dp/B000RJH32C/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1221196874&sr=1-2
I seen other people use these and overclock well.

[H-Sauce]

okay, thats great, but the £4.00 price jack up is to much.... (joke)

nice find, and your keeping in mind that im english. +1 for you even tho no1 cares

but yh, im lookin for a 750w psu now, might have to make some changes. my budget is about £700.

[loganbyers07]

the q6600 overclocks like there is no tommorow. so with a 750 watt power supply or so you should be able to get 3.6 ghz as long as you have adaquate cooling. The fan you chose should be fine. You should get some artic silver thermal paste.


Good luck

[H-Sauce]

dont u mean 850W?? CHECK IT!!

thanks mn, just bear in mind these are very early ideas, like it wint be built until end of jan. but this list should do fine. and updates will be frquently made.

[H-Sauce]

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[blackburn]

yeah ive noticed for awhile that most people go ATI but personally i dont like them, id go with to GTX+ in SLI or bust the money and get 2 or 3 GTX280's 

im running 2 eVGA GTX280 SuperClocked  and they are awsome, but i havent played on a ATI 4870 so im not sure about that card 

[Reaper]

I've had my q6600 stable @ 3.9 on air cooling, had to keep the side of the case open though.  i keep it @ 3 under manageable temps however.

[H-Sauce]

if i have some money left over, i am going to hook up a blue CCFL to a sound controller, like the psp led mod.

so that i can keep the "Blue Storm" :P

[blackburn]

I've had my q6600 stable @ 3.9 on air cooling, had to keep the side of the case open though.  i keep it @ 3 under manageable temps however.

im running my Q6700 at 3.6 GHz and the temp runs about 36F idle and 40-45 while gaming/under load

[Reaper]

im running my Q6700 at 3.6 GHz and the temp runs about 36F idle and 40-45 while gaming/under load

so it freezes?

[blackburn]

so it freezes?

sry typo.... 3.6GHz