New PC

[Stylefish]

Hi,
Im going to buy a new PC in the next days, so I need some recommendations. Price should be around 1000Euro, max 1100.
Here is what I thought of:

CPU Core 2 Duo E6400 219.90?
Gfx Sapphire Radeon X1900 GT 169.90?
Mainboard Asus P5B Deluxe 169.90?
HD WesternDigital 3200KS 96.90e
cooling Arctic Cooling Alpine 7 16.90?
Power supply BeQuiet E5-600W 91,90?
Ram MDT 2GB DDR 800, CL5,2x1GB 234.90?
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1000,30?

Im not much going to overclock anything if thats important. So, do the components fit together at all and could the system be improved without spending much more money?

thanks for help!

 

[Nephilim]

the CPU, GFX and Mainboard are good choices
you dont need the 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, see if they 667MHz versions are cheaper - if so, go for that. (800MHz modules are only interesting if you OC)
cooler, HD, PowerSupply.. all fine - I personally choose Enermax Liberty 500W over BeQuiet tho, but I guess theyre also good.
it also leaves good possibilities for OCing at a later time - it's a good setup IMO.

your pricings are a little too high, btw
CPU: 190 Euros ( http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a209545.html )
GFX: 160 ( http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a200424.html )
MB: 150 ( http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a211170.html )
RAM: 180 ( http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a159480.html ) (667 MHz!)

since that kind of "saves" you some money over your intitial setup, you might want to get a faster graphics card to brigde the performance-gap to the CPU. A Radeon X1900XT comes to mind here, at least a GF 7900GT. (I'd recommend getting the XT, or generally speaking a card with 512MB memory!)

Enjoy

 

[Cassius]

yeah, only thing i can help with after neph is to get atleast 1 gigabyte memory modules, easier to error check than if f.ex have 4*512 sticks, also ok if u want to expand to 4 gigs in the future

 

[sobo]

for mainboards, you can safely consider Gigabytes P965 (D)S3 boars, they are generally cheaper, stable (although you may want to get the latest BIOS off the web), and are capable of a high FSB for future OC projects(?)
Though they have some problems with several RAM module types, but that can be avoided by checking the Web too I suppose

 

[Nephilim]

for mainboards, you can safely consider Gigabytes P965 (D)S3 boars, they are generally cheaper, stable (although you may want to get the latest BIOS off the web), and are capable of a high FSB for future OC projects(?)
Though they have some problems with several RAM module types, but that can be avoided by checking the Web too I suppose

the P5B is superior to the gigabyte models, also considering OCing - if it's within the budget, get it.

 

[Stylefish]

ok thanks a lot, ordered now