I would loose the physics card and the NIC The newer videocards and drivers support physics on their GPU this will be used more then the seperate physics card The killer NIC quite expense for the gain you get. From what ive read you get a 1-2% increase of framerate. The latency (ping) is influenced by so many other places that it most likely wont matter at all.
With the money you save you can get a better videocard i would go for an nvidia GTX 285 or if you really want SLI go for 2 GTX275 (or e even 285)
Oh and you dont have an mainboard listed thats quite essential :) I think any board with an x48 chipset will suffice. you can make those as expensive as you want :P (the asus P5E boards are quite nice)
Processor is nice. Although currently quad core is still not really used. So you might want to consider a higher clocked dual core for the same price, but its not that the differences will be huge.
memory and HDD excellent :) soundcard good
btw will you be building it yourself? (gives more choices)
Intel Extreme is silly money indeed. I would go for air cooling mainly because i build my pc myself and dont want to hassle with all the tubing etc :D But i dont think liquid cooling is much better then air cooling. It can be more silent, and maybe you can overclock a bit further. The noise never bothers me because i always have some sort audio (game, movie or music) running. And im not such an overclocker that i think liquid would be beneficial to me So in short if i was building a pc i would go for air cooling
I'm learning a lot, slowly through liquid cooling. I've fried a southbridge chip, popped a seal on a cpu heatsink, and spent days mounting and removing hardware to and from the mobo.
If you just want a gaming PC, go with air cooling. If you want a computer engineering prodject on the side, go with liquid cooling.
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ah well orded me dell, Retail Price was £1900 i got it for £1350, so leased with that :D
what i got in the end was.. Processor Intel Core 2 Quad-Core Processor Q9550 (2.83Ghz, 1333MHz FSB, 12MB cache) Documentation : English Shipping Doc with UK/Irish Power Cord Resource DVD : English XPS 630 Diagnostics and Drivers(64 BIT)
Memory : 8192MB (4x2048) 800MHz DDR2 Dual Channel
19-in-1 Bluetooth Media Card Reader
Hard Drive : 2TB (2x1TB) Serial ATA Raid 0 "Stripe" (7200RPM) Dual HDD
Heatsink : Air Cooled Heatsink
ROXIO Software for Vista - Creator/MYDVD 10.1 (software install, no media)
Optical Drive : 16X DVD ROM Drive & 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
Display : Not Included
Graphics: DUAL 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800GT card
128MB Ageia® PhysX PCI card
Sound Card Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme
Speakers Not Included
Networking : Killer NIC Gaming Card
Logitech G5 Full Speed USB Laser Gaming Mouse
Keyboard : UK/Irish (QWERTY) Dell Entry USB Black
Operating System : English Genuine Windows Vista SP1 Home Premium (64 BIT) including Media
English Microsoft Works 9.0 (Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Outlook Express, Powerpoint Viewer)
(With Recovery CD)
Software : Datasafe Local 2.0 Basic
English Norton Internet Securities 2009 - 30 Day Trial Version
1Yr Premium Warranty Support
No Warranty Upgrade
No Accidental Damage Support
DataSafe Online Backup 2GB
DataSafe Online size - 2GB Trial
XPS Desktop 630 Order - UK
-- Edited by audiem on Sunday 2nd of August 2009 11:07:11 PM
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