Buying a PC...specs inside, need advise

Intel® Core™2 Q6600 Quad-Core (8MB L2 cache,2.40GHz,1066FSB)

Windows Vista® Home Premium

3GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 4 DIMMs

250GB - 7200RPM, SATA 3.0Gb/s, 8MB Cache

Single Drive: 16X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability

nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeMusic (D) Sound Card

Wow, someone's a little hostile. The OS still addresses that extra memory, it just gives it to things like peripherals.

TC, that build is fine.

I just got my XPS630 this weekend. I have Q6600, 3G RAM at 800Mhz and the GF8800GT 512Mb. Total cost about $1400 and I can add another GPU in SLI if I wanted. I was a bit confused as to why they installed 2X 1G RAM and 2X 512 to total 3G RAM, instead of just giving me 3X 1G?

I'm fully satisfied so far. I can run Far Cry at Very high across the board with no lag, although I had to install the cumulative patch to get the graphics to work. Doom3 looks great, also running at very high settings. Can't wait to check out Crysis and Far Cry 2!!!

I just got my XPS630 this weekend. I have Q6600, 3G RAM at 800Mhz and the GF8800GT 512Mb. Total cost about $1400 and I can add another GPU in SLI if I wanted. I was a bit confused as to why they installed 2X 1G RAM and 2X 512 to total 3G RAM, instead of just giving me 3X 1G?

I'm fully satisfied so far. I can run Far Cry at Very high across the board with no lag, although I had to install the cumulative patch to get the graphics to work. Doom3 looks great, also running at very high settings. Can't wait to check out Crysis and Far Cry 2!!!

tocklestein2005

I just got my XPS630 this weekend. I have Q6600, 3G RAM at 800Mhz and the GF8800GT 512Mb. Total cost about $1400 and I can add another GPU in SLI if I wanted. I was a bit confused as to why they installed 2X 1G RAM and 2X 512 to total 3G RAM, instead of just giving me 3X 1G?

I'm fully satisfied so far. I can run Far Cry at Very high across the board with no lag, although I had to install the cumulative patch to get the graphics to work. Doom3 looks great, also running at very high settings. Can't wait to check out Crysis and Far Cry 2!!!

tocklestein2005

One question...what is a physics accelerator and is it really needed?Solid_Snake_7

There is no point what so ever in getting the physics accelerator. It was advertised as an addon card to do physics calculations, but in reality, it has little to no support, and provides no benefits when used.

[QUOTE="Solid_Snake_7"]One question...what is a physics accelerator and is it really needed?aveman1

There is no point what so ever in getting the physics accelerator. It was advertised as an addon card to do physics calculations, but in reality, it has little to no support, and provides no benefits when used.