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Dankus
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 Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: New PC. Any thoughts? |
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Putting this together on Newegg and just wanted to know what you guys think. Is there anything you would recommend over what I have here? Thanks for the input mates. 
1 COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000 RC-1000-KSN1-GP Black/ Silver Steel ATX Full Tower Computer Case - Retail
Item #: N82E16811119138
$189.99
2 Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Item #: N82E16822136012
$339.98
($169.99 each)
1 MSI K9A2 Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
Item #: N82E16813130136
$159.99
1 XFX PVT88GYDF4 GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
Item #: N82E16814150261
$319.99
1 Thermaltake Toughpower W0172RU ATX12V / EPS12V 850W Power Supply - Retail
Item #: N82E16817153062
$209.99
2 CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-8500C5DF - Retail
Item #: N82E16820145197
Total 8 Gigs
$378.00
($189.00 each)
1 AMD Phenom 9600 Agena 2.3GHz Socket AM2+ 95W Quad-Core Processor Model HD960ZWCGDBOX - Retail
Item #: N82E16819103244
$229.99
4 Scythe SY1225SL12SH 120mm Case Fan - Retail
Item #: N82E16835185060
$35.96
($8.99 each)
1 ZALMAN CNPS9700 LED 110mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler - Retail
Item #: N82E16835118019
$53.99
Subtotal: $2,110.84
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whitedragon
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks great to me! |
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mini
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Location: Glasgow
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Id go down the C2D route my self. |
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powerarmour
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| mini wrote: |
| Id go down the C2D route my self. |
Ditto, though I genuinely hate feeling all anti AMD at the moment, at least on the CPU front... |
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onepairofpant
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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I think you're spending too much, you don't need dominator ram and all these bells and whistles.
I'd get a C2D as well, with a cheap gigabyte motherboard and standard XMS corsair ram.
I like the video card though, but you need to shave off a few hundred bucks at least. |
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whitedragon
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daglesj
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Stick with the Raptors. Once you've had one you never want to go back.
You could look at swapping to two 75Gb versions and getting a getting a 400Gb 7200 as a backup/media store.
I can still run just fine of 75Gb of space for my main apps drive. |
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Dankus
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:03 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the good feedback. I'll go with the C2Q. It will be my first personal intel build.
Couple more questions, though. The motherboard you listed, Whitedragon, it is PCI 16 and not PCI E 2.0 x 16. What is the difference?
I was thinking this one.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131232
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whitedragon
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Dankus
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks again. Other question is I plan to RAID 0 the two raptors drives. Is that the best setup for performance/speed? |
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