Urgent help needed with new gaming pc!

feelgoodinc27

Hi i'm in the US for the next two weeks and i'm looking in to building a new gaming pc. All that i'm saving form the old one is the case and hard disks and everything else will be bought off newegg.com (delivers to US only hence urgency):

1xPC Power & Cooling S61EPS 610W Continuous @ 40°C EPS12V Power Supply - Retail $109.99

1xG.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ - Retail $84.99

1xEVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $249.99

1xIntel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor Model BX80562Q6600 - Retail $209.99

1xZALMAN CNPS9500 AT 2 Ball CPU Cooling Fan/Heatsink - Retail $49.99

2xMSI NX8800GT 512M OC GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail ATARI Gift - The Witcher PC Game - OEM $349.98 ($174.99 each)

Subtotal:$1,054.93
Grand Total:$1,148.94 (plus shipping and tax) approx. = 677euros

My main concern in regards to price is the best price to performance ratio for a pc that will be overclocked.

With that in mind are that graphics cards a good buy as a few new cards have just been released?

Would it be worth getting a more powerful processor like a Q6700, Q9300 or Q9450?

I'm not sure on the power requirments of the build is the 610W ok?

Finally has anyone any suggestions on a less expensive but equally powerful motherboard or any other component?

Thanks in advance if you can help!

Blazer

Definiteyl think it would be worth going upto the Q9450. It's not much more in price and it's more upto date. Saying that there's nothing wrong with the Q6600 but me? I'd go for the later gen.

As for your video cards definitely the 2x 8800GTs are very good. There's also |
Ati's new cards which are getting rave reviews eg 4850/4750. and their price per performance is a lot better than Nvidia's. OVerall the 8800GTs are good

As you can see from my sig below I have the 680i board. Not very happy with it and am going to switch back to Intel after this. For me SLI is overhyped and is only good for gaming at 1920x1200 and beyond. Anything below this one card is fine.

Gadgetman496

feelgoodinc27 wrote: »

I'm not sure on the power requirments of the build is the 610W ok?

You can calculate your power supply requirements here:
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp


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papu

its ok , personally i would drop the Sli board for something a little more reliable and overclockable ,the nvidia boards are very buggy ,

also why go sli? the best thing is to go for a very fast single card solution , drop the 8800's and get an ATi 4870 , this card performs better than the new NVidia GTX260 but its only a bit over 200 dollars , get that and an hr-03 and your flying , Sli has allot if issues your paying 100% more for maybe 40 or 50% gains , not to mention the mircostutter issues..