will this work?

[thurnwood]

hello,

after posting on here a few monthes ago with a computer i wanted to build i decided to wait for core i7. And now its finally here i need some help. i have decided some of the parts i want to use (listed below) but i need some help with choosing some parts and any infomation on the parts i have chosen, or other suggestions will be much appreciated. And also will this work? So heres the specs:

Motherboard - Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard - £319.99
Processor - Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem) (Socket LGA1366) - £226.99
Memory - G.Skill 6GB DDR3 NQ PC3-12800C9 1600MHz (3x2GB) Triple Channel DDR3 (F3-12800CL9T-6GBNQ) - £189.99
Case - ?
Power supply unit - Corsair TX 750W ATX2.2 SLI Compliant PSU - £79.99
Hard disk drive - Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD3000GLFS) - £165.99 and Western Digital Caviar Black 750GB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (WD7501AALS) - £79.99
Sound card - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium - Fatal1ty Professional Series 7.1 Sound Card (70SB088600000) - £79.99
Graphic card - Powercolor ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2048MB GDDR5 TV-Out/Dual DVI/HDMI (PCI-Express) - £299.99
Optical drives -?
OS- vista 64 bit

Total – £1449

My budget is around £1200-£1500

any suggestion will be appreciated, thankyou.

 

[Asylum]

PSU= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006
MEMORY= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231228
CASE= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811144205
Optical= http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827118012 I would recommend these for your build!

 

[Franklinwallbrown]

I've heard that Auzentech Preludes are the way to go for sound...

As for the rest...Asylums picks look pretty good.

 

[oli_ramsay]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-033-GS&utm_source=froogle

memory^

Asylum's PSU would be good, not sure about sound card and a SATA Samsung DVD-RW drive should suffice.

http://specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=6911&cat=0&page=1#tabs

case^

 

[Franklinwallbrown]

What's wrong with Auzentech...around here I've heard they are the shizz...

 

[oli_ramsay]

What's wrong with Auzentech...around here I've heard they are the shizz...

I meant I'm not sure which sound card as I know nothing about them Not I'm unsure about theone you suggested.

 

[Franklinwallbrown]

I've also heard to eek out another fps or two and to have really good sound quality to use the Creative X-Fi Fatality...but I've heard that the Auzentech (with respect to sound) is the apex predator...

 

[thurnwood]

okay, well i think im gonna go for tri channel ram, the psu asylum said about looks good, but i still dont know what case to go for.

 

[spearman914]

okay, well i think im gonna go for tri channel ram, the psu asylum said about looks good, but i still dont know what case to go for.

You can’t tri channel unless you have 6 dimm slots.

 

[Franklinwallbrown]

Umm...all ASUS x58 boards support tri-channel...

 

[spearman914]

Umm...all ASUS x58 boards support tri-channel...

o.o lol read wrong

 

[Franklinwallbrown]

LOLz...it's all good.

 

[thurnwood]

so which sound card should i go with ?, i would like a good one as i will be gaming. and do i need two optical drives or would one be enough?

 

[smalls21]

I'm not sure about the sound card, but in these days, I really don't see why you would need to have 2 optical drives, that is unless you copy dvd' or cd's a lot. The computer before the one that I am using now had 2 optical drives and then I moved to a machine with one, I can't say that I miss having 2 except for the few times the I need to do a disk to disk transfer. But that is not that often, for me at least. I think the the number of optical drives is a determined by the person using the computer.

 

[Franklinwallbrown]

@ thurn: It depends on if you are an audiophile or not. If you love crisp clear sounds. If music is your life. Then you need a good dedicated sound card. If you can't tell the difference between an MP3 and a wav file, then just use the on-board sound card. Now if you like to game. Then get a cheap-o card so that your CPU doesn't have to do the sound work.

@ smalls: I would have to agree. 2 or more optical drives are nice to have, but if you don't copy DVDs or CDs extensively they really aren't worth it.

 

[thurnwood]

yeh i see what you mean Franklinwallbrown, in that case, as i like my music and im a gamer, i will get a dedicated sound card. i think i will get the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium.

I will probably keep to one optical drive, as i have 2 atm and personally i dont really need the second one.

 

[LittleLizard]

remember that a good sound card is nothing without the appropiate headphones and speakers

 

[thurnwood]

okay, well im using logitech X-210, which have 25 watt rms power. They are not the best speakers as ive had them for a while now and they were cheap. Should i keep them or is it worth changing them?