Skuzzy, Have you built your new system?

[Getback]

Just curious to see what you put together.

[wrag]

His system?

Thought he was building mine 

So Skuzzy have you finished buidling MY system yet?

[Skuzzy]

Most of the parts are sitting here on the shelf.  With the convention and all, I have not had time to finish it.

It will be a pretty generic box.

ASUS P5Q motherboard
Intel E8500 CPU
2GB of GSkill RAM (DDR2-1066 so I can over clock some things a bit)
Dual 500GB Seagate NS drives
DVD-ROM and I have not decided on the burner(s) yet.  Blu-Ray and/or DVD?
PC Power & Cooling 750W power supply
Antec 1200 case
Windows XP Pro
Sapphire 4870 Toxic video card

[Getback]

I see 4 ghz in your future.

[Skuzzy]

[AirFlyer]

Got an Antec 1200 myself when Newegg had a nice special going on for them. It's a rock solid case and I can promise it won't disappoint you.

[BluTrain]

hmmm - the wife wants a new machine...perhaps I could give her mine and build this for myself...my machine is current so she wouldn't be getting crap - actually, for her it'd be overkill.

[lowZX14]

And a round about cost on this would be??

[Denholm]

You can always go to www.newegg.com and search for the products to get the estimate.

[Skuzzy]

Forgot to add, I would be transferring my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum sound card over to this system from my current rig.  I am still on the fence about the current generation of sound cards.

I desparately need a sound card with hardware Dolby encoding and decoding.

And a round about cost on this would be??

I have not broken out the costs of the hardware, as I am also buying some pretty high end software packages at the same time.  I would guess it is around $900 for the hardware.

[lowZX14]

 :aokThank you sir, I was just comparing all of the systems that I have seen on here.

[1701E]

Got an Antec 1200 myself when Newegg had a nice special going on for them. It's a rock solid case and I can promise it won't disappoint you.

Showoff.

Still using an old case; here I am upgrading/replacing my PC for the past two years, and still using my old E-machines T6528 case.  In this weather it works wonders for cooling with my modifications.  GeForce 7900GS is now staying 33C, both HDDs 23C, won't mention CPU since sensor is broken.  Hard to beat a $450 PC that runs all these games really well.

Now where can I find a foot warmer...thing is freezing my feet with this fan blowing on em in 35-40F weather.



 
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[TilDeath]

Here are some great what I call entry level systems

System One:
Processor: E7200
Motherboard: Asus P5Q Pro
Power supply: Corsair 450VX
Memory: mushkin 2x2GB PC2-8000
Video: Gigabyte HD4850 
Hard disk: Samsung F1 1TB
Total $743 rough

Possible Upgrades
E7200 -> E8200
E7200 -> Q6600
HD4850 -> HD4870

System Two:
Processor: E8600           
Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45T-Extreme   
Power supply: Corsair 750TX
Memory: Mushkin 2x2gb PC3-12800
Video (Crossfire setup): Gigabyte HD4870 x2
Hard disk: Seagate 7200.11 1.5TB
Total $1660 rough

Possible Upgrades
HD4870x2 -> GTX280(saves $150)
E8600 -> Q9400

Total $1660

I LIVE EAT AND BREATH OCing
Here is a link to a slight OC on air http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=432597

[Fulmar]

Nature is an excellent source of cooling.  Especially when you're in college and you stick your computer (p3 at the time) next to the slightly opened window in 20F Wisconsin.  Cooled that baby right down to 45F.

[TilDeath]

Nature is an excellent source of cooling.  Especially when you're in college and you stick your computer (p3 at the time) next to the slightly opened window in 20F Wisconsin.  Cooled that baby right down to 45F.

ROFLMAO