Can you guys look at this potential build

Just trying to find a powerful PC for uni

Case: CoolerMaster Centurion 590 Black Case

CPU: (Quad-Core)Intel® CoreTM 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz 1066FSB 8MB L2 ***Overclockable XXX*** Cache 64-bit

Motherboard: (Quad-Core FSB1333) MSI P35 Neo2-FR Intel P35 CrossFire Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2/800 Mainboard w/GbLAN, USB2.0, & 7.1Audio ***Overclockable S& S***

Memory: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Value Select or Major Brand)

Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E x16 512MB Video Card

Video Card 2: ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCI-E x16 512MB Video Card

Hard Drive: Single Hard Drive (500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Data Hard Drive: NONE

Optical Drive: SONY DUAL FORMAT 20X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

Optical Drive 2: NONE

Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

This plus stuff like keyboard and mouse and Vista and a 22" LCD for £964

Also would two Radeon 4850s in crossfire be better then a single Radeon 4870?

Cheers

Nice PC ur building there, but I would say go with a single radeon 4870 rather than the 4850s in crossfire due to that the 4870 can more or less handle all games at max or high in Crysis's case with respectable framerates at a 1680 x 1050 resolution which i am guessing is your monitors native resolution.

When the time comes you can get another radeon 4870 and use it in crossfire

Other then that nice build

Bad choice for a motherboard if you want to run Crossfire. P35 has x16 speed on pci-e slot 1 and x4 speed on slot 2. And it's pci-e 1.0 or 1.1.

If you want max performance with Crossfire get an X38 or X48 motherboard, as it will give x16 speed on both pci-e slots.

If you get a single HD4870, you better go with a P43 or P45 motherboard.

Bad choice for a motherboard if you want to run Crossfire. P35 has x16 speed on pci-e slot 1 and x4 speed on slot 2. And it's pci-e 1.0 or 1.1.

If you want max performance with Crossfire get an X38 or X48 motherboard, as it will give x16 speed on both pci-e slots.

If you get a single HD4870, you better go with a P43 or P45 motherboard.

matrixian

He's absolutely right. An X38 MOBO will run you cheap. Either way, make sure you get at least an X38. But since your build is so awesome, I would go with an X48. :) If you do get an X48, make sure you grab some DDR3 Ram. You're set for a long time.