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Old March 2nd, 2009, 04:12 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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How's this build look?

Antec Twelve Hundred Black Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case

Antec TruePower Quattro TPQ-1000 1000W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Certified
CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply

ASUS M4A79 Deluxe AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition

EVGA 896-P3-1260-AR GeForce GTX 260 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card (I will start with one or two but hope to eventually fill all 4 pcie slots on the mobo)

Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory (I'll start with 4 gb and later get 4 more)

I've got a few extra hard drives lying around.

What do you think? Would you make any changes? Will this be a good setup to be able to overclock eventually? (I've never overclocked before but once I get the extra ram I'd like to look into it and overclock the cpu)

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Old March 2nd, 2009, 04:25 PM     #2 (permalink)
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That power supply is total overkill. You could easily run two of those systems on that power supply, with a lot of room to spare.

Take the money you save on the power supply and buy a new hard drive. Older drives are much slower than a new 640GB drive.
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i would get an intel core 2 quad, since they seem to be faster than any phenom.
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i would get an intel core 2 quad, since they seem to be faster than any phenom. Also the psu seems to be major overkill.

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