What George Bush is going to buy me

[HONkUS]

with the 600 bucks im getting back from George Dubya im upgrading my system, I haven't been with Intel since my old 400mhz PII with 64mb of SDRAM pc-133, 16mb Voodoo Banshee, and a colossal 20gb HDD

Here is the proposed parts list, do any of you established Intel aficionados see anything wrong with it? It will primarily be used for Game Development and overclocking

Intel Xeon X3350 LGA775 : $349.99
EVGA Nforce 750i FTW : $199.99
G.SKILL 2x1gb DDR2 1066 : $59.99

im keeping my 8800GTS 640mb and X-fi from my previous build and I have a Xigmatek HDT-RS1283 for cooling.

so does anyone see any red flags on this one?

[DMB2000uk]

Why are you going Xeon?

Is it purely because there are some available vs the equivalent Q9450 that doesn't exist on newegg?

Dan

[skierkid450]

you had a 16 MB video card in a PII!, in the P-S(I) we had a 4MB Diamond, and 1.5 Gigs of HDD space, then in a PIII went integrated, then again with P4 3.0, until i dipped my hands into the skin, and putting a 550W PSU, 2GB of faster RAM, a DVD-RW, and HD 3870 X2


that things gonna be a monster when it all comes in(also, why Xeon)

[Sovereign]

If you're doing game development, then I suggest ditching the Xeon, saving $150 or so for more RAM. If you're putting Vista on that thing you should have at least 4GB, if not 8GB. I'm convinced, based on my friend's quadcore, that Vista's real sweet spot is 8GB, not 4GB as I previously believed. Even if you're not putting Vista on it, then save yourself the money and get a Q6600 anyway.

[dicecca112]

First and Last links are to the memory.

[HONkUS]

ok fixed it thanks for the headsup on the link

reason in choosing the xeon is two fold:

1. because their in stock
2. because correct me if im wrong but aren't they the exact same chip as the Q9450? plus it adds extra geekiness, everyone has C2Q's i don't know anyone that has a Xeon

[Alathald]

I'd have to agree with these guys, go Q6600 and grab 8gb ram...maybe 2 of these, not DDR 1066 but great ram for a good price (should overclock well). If you must go Xeon, at least get a 2x2gb kit of RAM so you have room to upgrade in the future to 8gb

[HONkUS]

well ive done work on machines with 2 and 4gb of ram and honestly for what i do i need processing cores. Compiling and rendering aren't memory limited at 2gb for what im doing with the Source engine for instance my page file is only 800mb when im compiling @100% cpu usage so RAM isnt as big as a factor as you would think.

[HONkUS]

also im not going 64bit anytime soon so anything more then 3.5gb is useless

[DMB2000uk]

Well in that case, get the Xeon, only know how much RAM you will be using so buy accordingly.

2GB on XP is entirely manageable. For vista you should get 4GB.

Dan