[QUOTE="Goodfella_no4"]

I am building this in 2 days. I need your opinions.

Intel C2D E8400

ASUS P5Q-E

Gigabyte Radeon HD4850

2 GB (2x1) DDR2-800 Kingston ValueRAM

500 GB WD SATA2 HDD

Samsung 22X DVD-Burner

HEC 650W PSU (It's an unknow brand in the US)

So, what do you think?

I have an unrelated question: This motherboard support up to 16 GB of RAM. If I later buy a 2x2 GB kit, exactly the same kind and speed, will I be able to run dual channel. I will be running 6 GB this way.

zxvb

are you a goodfellas movie fan by chance?

anyway from personal experience dont get an asus motherboard. on my last one, the IDE cable for the dvd drive didnt reach the motherboard.

Yup!

well if you paly higher reoslutio then 1280x1024 and seek higher spec get 4870. and another question what country ur from and what place u buy ur part ? and what money currency ? (pound) (euros) (Canada dollar) (Australian dollar) ? or some exotic place foreign of half of market of pc ?
cause for those place i know some great website. since i helped 3 France computer : 4 british comp : 10 canadians : 7 american since im from msn / gamespot when nobody help enough or have unclear mind and no benchmark i come in and give my opinions that all don't for anyone to buy. but i make them reconsider benchmark
sometime adding 100$ can make a big difference the most essential part are cpu : video card : motherboard
ram number higher then 2GB is not essantial to fPS . ram is secondary. t hen you overclock based on what memory can do it i heard so having some weak memory can result as bad oc result or failure that what i heard. but im not a pro overclocker lol
where i live i got my 2GB patriot memory. 2 year ago 800mhz 50$ after mail in rebate and instant rebate :P
4-4-4-12 but cas latency is having trouble when overclocking and mhz i heard so. don't know how it all work
like i heard if it 4-4-4-12 you have to change voltage so it only runing like a 5-5-5-16 but does of cpu overclock
it does worth it mean while i think i saw E8500 3.8ghz with 4-4-4-12 800mhz oc. not sure in the benchmark i
i just know from some benchmark overclocking cpu is giving a Great increase. of fps. for gamers and unlike amd
it mean for overclock the intel cpu. and do work well as long you have cooling solution and follow guide
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q9300_9.html#sect0

marcthpro

I play at 1680x1050. Are you sure that the 4850 won't be adequate? On another PC with a 8800GT, I can max games on the 1680x1050 monitor.

I am not a fan of overclocking, but I think with 800 MHz, I can go for 3.6 GHz on the E8400 easily (400x9), right? Do I still need the 1066 ones? The price difference is a bit on the high side.

[QUOTE="Goodfella_no4"][QUOTE="Simsfreak14"][QUOTE="WDT-BlackKat"]

Switch PSU to a better, safer brand like Thermaltake, ABS, Hyper, etc.

Switch RAM, Kingston Value is dog food as is any "value" named model, Try 4 GB (2x2GB) G.Skill or Crucial.

Otherwise looks fine.

WDT-BlackKat

He dosn't live in the US, they may not have thos brands there.

So where do you live, UK? HEC is a horrible brand there too. Get this and ... for the RAM--->Overclockers too.

There is no way those brands are not available even if you're not in the UK. Short of being in Burkina Faso or some third world hell hole like Naples, Italy, you can find all brands everywhere.

Thanks for your "politeness". I live in Egypt, which is a third world country... But by no means a hell hole.

[QUOTE="WDT-BlackKat"]

Switch PSU to a better, safer brand like Thermaltake, ABS, Hyper, etc.

Switch RAM, Kingston Value is dog food as is any "value" named model, Try 4 GB (2x2GB) G.Skill or Crucial.

Otherwise looks fine.

Simsfreak14

He dosn't live in the US, they may not have thos brands there.

Here is the PSU:

http://www.hec-group.com.tw/model.php?category=psu&sub_category=certified_psu&model=zephyr

I am building this in 2 days. I need your opinions.

Intel C2D E8400

ASUS P5Q-E

Gigabyte Radeon HD4850

2 GB (2x1) DDR2-800 Kingston ValueRAM

500 GB WD SATA2 HDD

Samsung 22X DVD-Burner

HEC 650W PSU (It's an unknow brand in the US)

So, what do you think?

I have an unrelated question: This motherboard support up to 16 GB of RAM. If I later buy a 2x2 GB kit, exactly the same kind and speed, will I be able to run dual channel. I will be running 6 GB this way.

In case your system can't run games at playable frame rates on resolutions higher than 1280x1024, you can always play in that resolution. But you will have to go and change an option in the graphics card control panel. If you have an Nvidia card, you will choose "Nvidia scaling". It will scale the image to fit your screen without distorting the aspect ratio, i.e. you will get two black bars on the sides. It's nothing serious for me, as playing games with a stretched image is torture.

You don't need all this stuff if your system can handle 1680x1050 for games, but always remember that there are old games that you can't change their resolution, like Starcraft.

I am having exactly the same situation with an old Pentium 4 socket 478 motherboard. I disconnected everything, including the RAMs, graphics card AND THE CPU itself!!! And still no beeps. Nothing, just silence.

The funny thing is that the PC sometimes boots. Yes, it boots straight to Windows, but restarts itself at random or the moment I open any program.

I also have cleared the CMOS many times, and once when it did boot, I entered the BIOS screen and selected "Load Optimized settings", when I restarted for the option to take effect, the PC wouldn't boot.

I am going crazy too... I will try to take it to the Gigabyte guys (it's a GB board) to have them look at it.

one or two??
one maybe a year

two
probs year and half, maybe two

wait, 1440x900, probs a bi more than, for me its 1680x1050

Lehman

Huh?