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[MustHaveMobiles]

There must be others on the forum that are into PC gaming (WOW here...) so what do you think of this spec and what would you add to it? Ignore the fact that it is Alienware, any additions do not have to come from their catalogue...

Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6850 3.0GHz 8MB Cache 1333MHz FSB

Alienware® P2 Chassis with AlienIce™ 3.0 Video Cooling - Space Black

Alienware® Standard System Lighting - Astral Blue

Alienware® Standard System Cooling

1000 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply

Dual Graphics Cards - Dual 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GT – SLI Enabled

4GB Patriot EP+ Low Latency Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 x 1024MB

Alienware® Approved NVIDIA® nForce 680i SLI Motherboard

Windows Vista® Ultimate – DirectX 10 Ready!

Single Drive Configuration - 1TB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 32MB Cache

Additional Storage Drive - 1TB SATA 3Gb/s 7,200RPM 32MB Cache

4x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW)

Killer K1 Gaming Network Interface Card - Smoother Online Gaming!

Ageia PhysX PCI-Express Processing Unit w/ 128MB GDDR3

Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ XtremeGamer High Definition 7.1 Audio

30" Samsung 2560 x 1600 (6ms) SyncMaster Widescreen Flat Panel

Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 200-Watt THX®-Certified Speakers

Wireless Keyboard - Logitech® diNovo Edge Keyboard

Logitech® G9 Gaming Mouse

External Storage: 500GB Seagate Free Agent External Hard Drive


I'm maybe thinking a dual/triple monitor setup as opposed to a single large screen may be a good choice..

[amguncrazy]

looks good apart from vista, which is still crap and still has too many problems running programs, software, etc...

Originally Posted by MustHaveMobiles

I'm maybe thinking a dual/triple monitor setup as opposed to a single large screen may be a good choice..

Nice budget!

I would lose the Patriot ram, Corsair would be a sound choice.

I would stick with Vista, service pack is out shortly and as long as all your components are compliant (check before purchase) you shouldn't have too many issues (apart from the usual unreliability of Windows).

By the way, the proposed setup just for playing WOW is slightly overkill.

[Despina]

Defo over kill for WOW, but if it's your thing

Vista is pants for any gaming in my opinon. In fact, it's pants full stop.

Wirless keyboards are not good for gaming.
Windows Vista HATES low end gaming pads and joysticks. I am still down grading people who have purchased high end scanners industrial dot matrix printers, bar code users and many more because vista cries like a baby on installation.
My favourate OS is Mandriva Linux...
I only use windows xp dual boot to play MOHAA
Best ever out the windows was 2000. XP and Vista has more holes than Delila's bucket.

[MustHaveMobiles]

Originally Posted by Anthony

By the way, the proposed setup just for playing WOW is slightly overkill.

Im looking for a medium term bullet proof gaming system so I dont have to run my normal PC as it like at the moment, take on board the memory comments and will look at what I can do there. Decided to bin the single monitor to

Am hearing mixed about Vista, can always downgrade if required