New and Exited

[ka24boos13t]

So I just purchased myself a brand spankin new desktop (It's a graduation present and I figure I'll need it for software Engineering.)

Heres the specs (Custom built from EcollegePC.com):

Processor: 2.13 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 4MBHeatsink/Fan: ThermalTake Silent 775 CL-P0092 21dBAMotherboard: Asus P5N-E SLI Core 2 Duo (nForce 650i SLI, PCIEx, Sound, LAN, SRAID, DualDDR2, 1394)Memory: 2GB PC6400 DDR2 800Mhz PNYHard Drive: 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA300CD Drive: 18x Samsung S182M Lightscribe Dual Layer DVD+RW DVD-RAM w/NeroVideo Card (MY cornerstone for this build (Price per Performance wise)): 320MB nVidia GeForce 8800GTS GDDR3 PCI Express DVI/TVout

Running XP

I personally feel im still lacking on RAM, but I've pretty much exhausted my funds (I have still yet to buy a keyboard, mouse, and monitor haha) The video card was an easy choice for me, as all I've heard is praise for the new 8800GTS from numerous reviews. And concidering how much everyones saying the 640MB version does'nt make THAT much of a differance performance wise, I figured I'd save myself the money and just get the 320MB version.

Opinions? Praise or hate I dont care, I'd just like to know what everyone else thinks, and what you think I should possibly be upgrading in the future.
Modified by ka24boos13t at 3:22 PM 6/6/2007

[szh]

Looks very nice!

Try it for a while and then you can consider making changes. But, imho, you have what you need for just about anything that makes sense to run today ... including reasonable-speed gaming.

For the future, you might consider updating to 4GB of ram (will not help everything) and to a Raptor 10k rpm disk drive (will help all disk I/O). Neither of these are necessary though!

Z