| Caligula | 2007-12-09 14:06:00 |
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Any advice before I start ordering shiznit? I plan to OC the processor. Decided against the massive 9700 Zalman. The case might be a tight squeeze with the Nvidia 8800, but it has a massive rebate and great design. Had a very hard time picking out a mobo, seems like no one is perfect, this seems close. Excited about this sweet LCD monitor to replace my huge 21" Trinitron CRT. Plan on running a RAID 0, I've had bad luck with seagates. Those Hitachi's are right on the money. Might get a 3'rd for data backup. Slightly hesitant on Vista 32bit, but as with everything released early, support will only get better. I plan on using this computer for over 4 years like my Dell. Plenty of time for the OS to mature. After $130 in mail rebates makes for a grand total of $1720. A steal considering my dell was around $5000. |
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| Radiosparks | 2007-12-09 15:46:00 |
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Looks good bro. I have windows Vista on my new laptop and it is awesome but of course Microsoft has some tweaking to do. As far as the case, I purchased mine from and didn't have any problems with them. |
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| Caligula | 2007-12-09 21:35:00 |
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Done did. Upped the monitor to a 22" Acer Upped the vid card to a 8800 GTS 640mb God help me. |
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| Gummy | 2007-12-09 22:53:00 |
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Upped the debt $2,000. |
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| viper3 | 2007-12-12 05:06:00 |
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holy computer tech cali you will be linking into the armies missle command center with that thang .omg the nukes he will be albe to launch them now run run for your life cali has control of the nukes.lol |
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| momzrule | 2007-12-16 21:55:00 |
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sweet I hope you enjoy your rig. |
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| Caligula | 2007-12-17 00:09:00 |
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So far it's amazing. It took awhile to route cables and set up the raid, but it was worth it. It's a rock solid PC. OS install was a breeze. Vista is very cool. Takes getting used to though. Now it's time to install some games and crank the video card!! |
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| Otaleks | 2007-12-28 20:22:00 |
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havent posted in a few months lol hey, im going to build a new comp too along the same lines of yours cali Im actually getting a 8800GTX 756MB which is like $500 ( Im hoping it comes down soon) ill be getting a different processor, core 2 duo 2.4GHz im only getting a 19" monitor, but hey the contrast ratio is 2000:1! the rest is about the same good luck on the build |
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| No_Nickname | 2008-12-01 19:37:00 |
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I think I might build mine along the same parimeters as his to but up the anty on the Power supply. Any suggestions on a video card : ) |
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| RYMzBob | 2008-12-01 19:50:00 |
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I think I might build mine along the same parimeters as his to but up the anty on the Power supply. Any suggestions on a video card : ) Are you planning on running multi graphics cards and multi hard drives? 600 watts is more than enough in most cases. Read for more info on PSU sizing. For graphics card: NCIX has 8800GT for $229 USD. Or the for $219. If you want to be ahead of the curve - the brand new for $562 |
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