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#1 Enhancement Shaman US Ravenholdt








Since: 09-05-04
From: His Laughin' Place

Since last post: 4318 days
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Posted on 02-07-07 02:23 AM Link | Quote
Been looking around on the interbutt for some good PC parts. Ive already ordered some of the PC parts, but here is my lineup

$1407.00
(before all applicable rebates)

CPU: (Socket AM2) AMD Athlon™64 X2 4600+ Dual-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology

MOTHERBOARD: (Socket AM2)MSI K9N SLI Platinum nForce 570 SLI MCP Chipset

DDR2/800 SATA-II RAID MBoard w/ Dual 16x PCI-Express

MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel

Memory (Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Memory w/ Heat Spreader)

VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS 512MB PCI Express x16 (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA)

VIDEO CARD 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS 256MB PCI Express x16 (EVGA Powered by NVIDIA)

HARD DRIVE: Single Hard Drive (250GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)

Optical Drive: (Special Price) 18X DVD±R/±RW + CD-R/RW DRIVE DUAL LAYER (BLACK COLOR)

Optical Drive 2: 16X DVD ROM (BLACK COLOR)

SOUND: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO

I think this one is good
Lord Alexandor

Knight
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Since: 10-15-06
From: Dayton, OH

Since last post: 1145 days
Last activity: 394 days
Posted on 02-08-07 04:06 PM Link | Quote
Good plan, but I think you should drop the second video card for a 10k rpm HDD and maybe a 750gb drive instead of the 250gb. Thats just me. I'd go for the fast boot and huge space and then go after a second card when I can afford to get another one.

I built a mid tower computer (no keyboard/mouse/speakers/monitor/etc) for 375 after shipping with no rebates a week ago. It had mid grade everything and could definately play things like FarCry, Doom3, Quake4, WoW, etc. Idk if it would run F.E.A.R. very well, but probably at mid to low settings. It was also very expandable with room for more RAM, a better video card, more HDDs.

I don't see the point in multiple optical drives. One is plenty. All you need to do is rip stuff. I have a Terrabyte of hard space that holds my DVDs and CDs and game ISOs so I don't use my DVD drive very often. ^^
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#1 Enhancement Shaman US Ravenholdt








Since: 09-05-04
From: His Laughin' Place

Since last post: 4318 days
Last activity: 4312 days
Posted on 02-08-07 06:29 PM Link | Quote
About that HD, on my current computer, I have 2 20 GB hard drives and I only have like 8 games in them along with 2 Gigs of music...I think it'll be fine If I stuck with the 250GB.

Edit- and its only taken up like 45% of the maximum room

Plus the higher update you said Alexander would cost me an extra some-odd dollars.

But hey, It comes with Windows Vista, and I was willing to check that out for the longest time now.


(Last edited by Nagis on 02-08-07 09:30 PM)
Jexim

Asuka








Since: 10-07-04
From: California

Since last post: 6224 days
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Posted on 03-07-07 11:29 AM Link | Quote
I don't know, I kind of agree with Alexandor, the second vid card is a bit of a waste, I have an x1950 on mine, and runs everything like a dream, I've yet to hit a game I can't run on max settings, but I would disagree on the single optical drive, I prefer 2 myself, I've got the dvd burner and a cd rewritable, as for the harddrive, as soon as you get the space, you'll use it, specially if you've got net, so you don't think you'll need it, I would probably upgrade, atleat to 500, if not 750
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#1 Enhancement Shaman US Ravenholdt








Since: 09-05-04
From: His Laughin' Place

Since last post: 4318 days
Last activity: 4312 days
Posted on 03-07-07 01:36 PM Link | Quote
2nd GC prerenders each side of the screen.

Takes less to operate on Processors. So its not a waste.

Oh yeah, It comes in Friday. Not Tuesday...of last week. XD
Jexim

Asuka








Since: 10-07-04
From: California

Since last post: 6224 days
Last activity: 6101 days
Posted on 03-07-07 03:59 PM Link | Quote
eh, either way, still sounds like a sweet machine, I hope nothing comes DOA for ya, that would suck
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