This Is Not A Pimp-My-Rig Thread

[LeftEyeNine]

Yo.

I'm at the brink of getting myself a monstrous rig (at least on my standards) for the first time. However I'm concerned whether I'm making too much of an expenditure on particular components (if any). I've always wanted a rig that I could turn anything in "Options" menu to "Highest" without any doubt and that's why I'll be making such a serious spending. Yet I'd like to ask of you if you would name any of the components below is too early to buy, hence would be costing me dearly, please. Here goes:

• Intel Core i7-920 2.66GHz
• Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R
• Patriot PVT33G1600LLK Extreme Performance Viper 3x1GB DDR3-1600MHz CL8
• Samsung HD502IJ or Seagate ST3500418AS 500GB SATA300 7200rpm; 16 MB; NCQ
• Palit HD4870 Sonic 1GB or Palit GTX260 Sonic 896MB 216 SP Double Fan
• Samsung DVD Writer SATA
• NZXT Tempest + Cooler Master Real Power 620W

I'd also like your thoughts on the alternatives specified above and the rig as a whole as well.

Thanks in advance. You're one step closer to saving the world. I'll global-cool it.

Promise.


P.S. Sorry for the lame title. I'm at work. Tolerate.

[Furunculus]

i'm going to presume you are a gamer, if not sing-out because it affects the advice i'm about to give:

> first and foremost, the GPU is much more important than the CPU for games (and rapidly for encoding apps too), so i would spend 50% more on the GPU than you intend to spend on the CPU.
> with a rig that powerful you really want to be running 6GB on a Core i7 rig, especially since that motherboard has only four dimm slots so you can only get full triple channel on three sticks.

the CPU is great, as is the motherboard, but if your first wish from a new PC is to run games with the settings maxxed out i would give much more prominence to the GPU, which may mean choosing a cheaper motherboard and CPU.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I've never heard of Palit, any good? The HD4870 or the GTX260 are both the hardest hitting single cards out there these days though, so unless you put more in crossfire/SLI he can't do much better, I thought...

[Furunculus]

the AMD/ATI 4890 is due out in about four days time for about £250.

the nVidia 285 is the fastest signle GPU card available currently and costs about £300 at cheapest.

palit should be fine, most card resellers do nothing more than stick a brand badge on the nVidia/ATI kit they receive.

[LeftEyeNine]

Well I should say that the current level of expenditure is already banging at my limits. So I'd totally have to stay away from recommendations to push this rig further up. Thanks for your input though.

Yes, I'm a gamer, Furunculus, and yes 6 GB is a must...in the following days considering the size of my credit cards. ^^

And, dear AtPG, I'm not interested in the brands of high-end video cards too much to be honest. No matter what the brand may be, because of the chipset, the performance has to attain a certain spectrum anyhow I think. I'm not too much interested if it may be %5 worse than what, say, an MSI of the same chipset could do. As long as the brand is not notorious in general, it could be Palit or Goooogel or TWORG3D.

So shall I count your reactions as a "no, this rig does not contain anything overpriced for a gamer" statement ?

[Furunculus]

in that case i would recommend you pull yourself away from the idea of an i7 rig. :)

the money really is better spent elsewhere.
may be a C2D or a Phenom II.