new PC question

[gigauae]

hi guyz, am about to build a new PC was considering the following hardware spec:

i7 processor (2.66ghz)
285 geforce vga
6gb ram
X58 mobo
1k watt PSU
windows Vista (not sure which one , hence i seek a help here )
ummm for the rest of pieces ill go with default in market, my main concern is stability and performance
what should i expect smooth 5 boxing with high quality visuals? or some tweaking necesarry?
and if someone might be wondering why not the 295, heared it have some stability issues in wow

thanks again

[PerzianPenguin]

Depends on How many charachters you are boxing

Are you a 10, 25, boxer?

If so More RAM

and if you can get a copy of windows ultimate 64bit.

Get other opinions as well :P

Good Luck.

[Eloxy]

Hai!

I bought almost the same system as u some months ago, and i am most pleased. I have NO stability problems at all, and the performance is good.
I use 12gigs of 1333 ram and Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard and vista 64.

Conserning the gfx card, i am happy with my 285. Dont think that is the bottleneck anyway. Im running main window on everything on max exept shadows wich is on "middle setting" and 1920x1200 resolution with 4xAA.
On my slaves i have just set it to a allround medium setting.
Main window runs steady at 45 fps (capped) and 30ish in dalaran at peaktimes. my slave windows are capped to 25fps (enough to know whats happening imo).

U can with comfort set the gfx settings higher, but my personal taste is "no lag/choppy playing guaranied"

Go for it imo, just remember to buy a "trash hard drive for yadayada" and a SSD drive for your wows, trust me this is the best tip u can get.

Eloxy

[Enndo]

I'm runnin an i7 off an evga x58 board with an evga 285 sc edition card, 12 gigs corsair 1600, 850 corsair power supply and it rocks. I'm using a WD 500g 32mb cache hdd which works just fine. I usually have 50+fps in main window and my slaves are capped at 15.

[gigauae]

cheers.
definetly am getting it

[Noids99]

Yeah, looks good mate. Definitely need the 64 bit version of Windows if you want to actually use your 6GB of RAM.

[gigauae]

Yeah, looks good mate. Definitely need the 64 bit version of Windows if you want to actually use your 6GB of RAM.

true, yet am kinda confused afaik there are many versions of vista, ultimate, home,pro i think am not really sure and i am not familiar with vista in anyway, been using XP all the time until now :S

[Drecan]

just get 64 bit the ultimate really is nothing special it just has more memory drain for moving desktop backsgrounds and such, and when windows 7 comes out the ultimate stuff is going to be cut short anyways.