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connnnn · 06-06-2007, 12:44 AM

The e6x series of processors actually comes with a very good stock cooling solution; many sites have been able to overclock them significantly on stock cooling. So for normal use it should be totally fine.

That video card is RIGHT NOW (it will obviously change in the future) in my opinion the best buy in the market. To be honest I didn't even hear about the -20 releases of the processors, it looks like the 6420 is essentially the same price as the 6400 but it has the doubled L2 cache that the 6600 originally had (and was the only weakness in the processor). To be honest that's probably a really great buy, but I'd be very interested to see how far people are OC'ing those on stock cooling... if the 6320/6420 are OC'ing anywhere near as far as the original 63/64's on stock cooling, those could very well be the best buys in the CPU market for now. Personally (having not seen any new benchmarks yet for them) I would prefer to save $20 and go with the 6320, since I wouldn't expect the extra clock speed to give much of a performance jump, but that's also assuming I could overclock it to beyond the 6420's stock specs anyways (and you don't seem to be interested in OC'ing at all so it probably wouldn't fit you as well).

Frankly I haven't been keeping up with RAM in the past few months, and I've never been particularly knowledgable about mobos or LCD monitors (since to this day they still don't match CRT's), so I won't even guess. But I do know that I've played on LCD monitors with 2ms claimed response time (there's a ton of controversy over lack of standards with measuring preformance in LCD monitors and how they are presented to consumers), and still had issues with ghosting and/or texture tearing, so if nothing else it'd be worth trying to check one out at a local retail store if possible to make sure you're cool with that investment. I've known many friends who bought expensive LCD's within the past 6 months and were disappointed with them.

My only issue would be with the power supply. It's not that I see anything wrong with it, but I personally am not familiar with that brand (which isn't uncommon since there's so many new names lately), and I personally like to stick to PSU brands that I'm positive have a good track record, since it's typically the 1st thing to go out in a system. That, and 70% efficiency -- while it is sort of the standard right now -- is good but not great. You might be able to find one with equal or better power support and better efficiency, although I don't know how significant even a 12-15% increase in efficiency would be to the electric bill anyways.

And now that I found the button I wasn't seeing, it does appear that it has dual 12v rails that push 20 and 18 amps, so it should leave the door open for future upgrading of cpu and/or vid card, which would need more power.

06-06-2007, 12:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
connnnn Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: TX, USA Posts: 425	Re: How's this setup look for a gaming PC? The e6x series of processors actually comes with a very good stock cooling solution; many sites have been able to overclock them significantly on stock cooling. So for normal use it should be totally fine. That video card is RIGHT NOW (it will obviously change in the future) in my opinion the best buy in the market. To be honest I didn't even hear about the -20 releases of the processors, it looks like the 6420 is essentially the same price as the 6400 but it has the doubled L2 cache that the 6600 originally had (and was the only weakness in the processor). To be honest that's probably a really great buy, but I'd be very interested to see how far people are OC'ing those on stock cooling... if the 6320/6420 are OC'ing anywhere near as far as the original 63/64's on stock cooling, those could very well be the best buys in the CPU market for now. Personally (having not seen any new benchmarks yet for them) I would prefer to save $20 and go with the 6320, since I wouldn't expect the extra clock speed to give much of a performance jump, but that's also assuming I could overclock it to beyond the 6420's stock specs anyways (and you don't seem to be interested in OC'ing at all so it probably wouldn't fit you as well). Frankly I haven't been keeping up with RAM in the past few months, and I've never been particularly knowledgable about mobos or LCD monitors (since to this day they still don't match CRT's), so I won't even guess. But I do know that I've played on LCD monitors with 2ms claimed response time (there's a ton of controversy over lack of standards with measuring preformance in LCD monitors and how they are presented to consumers), and still had issues with ghosting and/or texture tearing, so if nothing else it'd be worth trying to check one out at a local retail store if possible to make sure you're cool with that investment. I've known many friends who bought expensive LCD's within the past 6 months and were disappointed with them. My only issue would be with the power supply. It's not that I see anything wrong with it, but I personally am not familiar with that brand (which isn't uncommon since there's so many new names lately), and I personally like to stick to PSU brands that I'm positive have a good track record, since it's typically the 1st thing to go out in a system. That, and 70% efficiency -- while it is sort of the standard right now -- is good but not great. You might be able to find one with equal or better power support and better efficiency, although I don't know how significant even a 12-15% increase in efficiency would be to the electric bill anyways. And now that I found the button I wasn't seeing, it does appear that it has dual 12v rails that push 20 and 18 amps, so it should leave the door open for future upgrading of cpu and/or vid card, which would need more power.