Good day to you all. I have just chosen all of the parts for my perfect computer (power + price), now I need to know if they all are compatible with each other. Help is much appreciated. Case : COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel , SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail - $54.99 Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-EP45C-UD3R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail - $139.99 CPU : Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Quad-Core Processor Model BX80562Q6600 - Retail - 189.99 Heatsink : ZEROtherm CF800 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail - $24.99 Thermal Compound : Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM - $5.99 Memory : CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN3X2048-1333C9DHX - Retail - $66.00 ------------------------- Parts I already have ----------------- PSU: CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX 650W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply - Retail - $0.00 GPU: EVGA 01G-P3-1280-AR GeForce GTX 280 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail - $0.00 CD+DVD drive: IDE - $0.00 HDD: Drive #1 - Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM - $0.00 If you have ANY suggestions or comments, PLEASE ask/tell/comment! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I am thinking of going with G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL6D-4GBNQ - Retail - $44.99
Case: Very good Motherboard: Excellent, but unnecessary. Just get the normal UD3R and DDR2 memory, you'll see no benefit with DDR3 CPU: Very good Heatsink: Mediocre - use an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro instead - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134 Thermal compound: Excellent Memory: Poor - Corsair is a good brand, but the C boards only have 2 slots, so you're limiting yourself to only 2GB of memory, which isn't always sufficient, and you have no option to upgrade at a later date, not to mention you're throwing money away using DDR3 instead of DDR2. Motherboard URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128359 RAM URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145214 $194 for the pair, $149 after rebates. You've saved $12, got twice as much RAM, and the same performance. PSU: Excellent GPU: Excellet performer, hope you didn't pay over the odds for it, such cards are only really worth about $250 tops these days, and they usually sell for a lot more than that. With the three modifications I have made, your system will definitely be comptible.
Wow, that helped ALOT. Thank you SO much. Please, if anyone else wants to step forward, go ahead, I need all of the opinions I can get
