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March 18th, 2007, 10:25 AM
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Hi. I would love to know what components some of you guys are using these days. I am about to build a new rig. Here is what I have so far and I hoping you can recommend great hardware to go with it. I want a very powerful system and cost is not really a factor. I mean, hey - I want to keep my expenses to under 2-3K. Here is what I have so far.
Lian Li case
BFG GTX8800
Pentium Core 2 Duo E6600
I am looking for the best MOBO, memory, heat sink, PSU, that goes with these compnents. I tend to buy asus Mobo's, but if someone has a better option, lay it on me. Thank you | 
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March 19th, 2007, 03:22 PM
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this is a pretty nice mobo: ASUS P5W DH Deluxe SKT 775 ATX although I hear good things about the P5B series. Arctic freezer 64 pro for the heat sink. A strong enermax PSU will do nicely. Get some low latency 2 GIG RAM from corsair or whoever you prefere.
Personally I'd wait for the new DX10 cards to arrive and get vista OS but those are you're choices but you'll be future proof for a long while. The Ati R600 cards are round the corner so I'm waiting for them bad boys to get in stock. I sugest getting a mid range card for now until the big boys come in stock. Maybe a 7600GT or something.
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+. Asus 7600GT PCI-E. Asus A8N-SLI-Premium. 2 GIG Corsair XMS DDR RAM. 250GIG WD 2500KS. X-Power 500W PSU
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March 19th, 2007, 07:21 PM
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March 19th, 2007, 08:34 PM
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March 19th, 2007, 10:32 PM
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Corsair Power Supplies are also very good.
Kind of hard to read, Dach, but readable. | |
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March 19th, 2007, 10:40 PM
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Figured as much....lol. Lemme see if I can square it away a bit....Corsair PS's have some good reveiws as well. Tom's I think went thru one and raved about it. What got me hooked was the variable amperage feature on the 3 12v rails. Each rail is rated for 20 amps for a total of 60 but if you overload one rail with say, 35 amps or so load, it will just take an extra 15 amps from an underloaded rail and adjust the supply to fit the demand on the rail you got over the 20 amps. That way you dont have to worry about calculating how much per rail and having to get all specific where you plug stuff in at. Attention to those kinds of details is what drew me in the Corsair direction. | |
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March 19th, 2007, 10:46 PM
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There. Maybe that's a bit easier on the eyez.....lol | |
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March 19th, 2007, 11:47 PM
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I personally would go with some different choices.
The hard drive is $89.99, not $179.98...
P965 is for Crossfire only (so far) and I havent seen a board yet (965) with an SLI Implementation. So if you are going NVidia, then I would suggest something more like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131142
Many people swear on the new NVidia 6xx SLI chipsets, and this one comes with SLI capability, is C2Q compatible, and has a lot of options to play with.
I would grab a couple of those 8800 cards and throw them in SLI.
Same Processor (Quad cores arent low enough in price yet, but they will be)
Same Case
Good PSU, but I'd go for this one:
(Newegg is having a problem with their server ATM but the OCZ 700w Unit I was going to suggest had 18 amps on each of the 4 +12v rails, and could supply some of the most power hungry systems out there. It is $150 plus a rebate for $20 I believe) http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...705&CatId=2531 I normally dont go to tigerdirect, but this seems to be a great deal to me. Remember, neweggs servers are down ATM, so I cant go on there.
Everything else is good.
Total: ~$2400
Now you need a monitor, an OS, Speakers, and other accesories, and that should be it. I'll modify my post later tommorow to include everything else and a more accurate final price. | |
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March 19th, 2007, 11:53 PM
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My bad on the drives. I bought two of them and that was taken from my cart so thats why it showed the price so high. Good catch...... | |
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