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March 4th, 2008
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| Beer Drinking Association
 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Longview, Texas
Posts: 200
|  Got the ok for a new build!! Lol, my wife gave me permission to build myself a new system so she can have the rig I have now and give her rig to our kids. I have a $400 limit. This is what I have come up with. GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR GeForce 8600GT Video Card Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600AAJS 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive all totals $398. What do you guys think?  Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4 ghz 2 ghz HT 2 x 1GB PC3200 RAM LG Lightscribe DVD/CD write 18x/48x read 16x/48x Windows XP Pro SP 2 & Windows 2000 pro sp4 BFG Geforce 7800 GS OC 256mb running dual displays Zalman CNPS9500 CPU Cooler K8 Triton GA-K8U-939 Mobo w/ULI M1689 Chipset Xion 600W PSU w/dual 12v rails | ||||||||||||||
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| Banned
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 161
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| The Sweaty Lefty
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Pacific Grove, CA
Posts: 4,152
| Re: Got the ok for a new build!! Quote:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 | DFI Blood Iron P35-T2RL | 2GB G.Skill 800MHz | EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB | Silverstone Decathlon 650W | Western Digital 250GB SATA II | |||||||||||||||
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March 4th, 2008
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| "the piano playin Gimp"
 | Re: Got the ok for a new build!! Alright, I put together a system for you: Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3L LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX All Solid Capacitor Intel Motherboard - Retail Newegg.com - Intel Pentium E2160 Allendale 1.8GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - Retail Newegg.com - EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card - Retail Newegg.com - G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail Newegg.com - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3250620AS 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM That comes to $404.54 + theres a $30 MIR on that video card so that brings the total down to $374.54 Shipped!   Last edited by Parker; March 4th, 2008 at 17:10. | ||||||||||||||
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| Stig's American Cousin
 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NY
Posts: 1,134
| Re: Got the ok for a new build!! and if you replace parker's board with this one, you can knock off a couple of more bucks too! Newegg.com - EVGA 122-CK-NF66-T1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail   Cosmos 1000 Asus P5Q Deluxe Q9450 TRUE 120 Extreme Black Edition W/ Yate Loon Fans 4GB G.Skills PC8500 2x2gb Seagate HD x 3 (2 7200.10 (320gb, 500gb), 1 7200.11 (1TB) Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio 2 Visiontek HD4850 in Crossfire Acer P241W Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 | ||||||||||||||
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| "the piano playin Gimp"
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| Colonel Calamity
 | Re: Got the ok for a new build!! I just did a setup with a E2140.... almost as fast as my E6600  Thanks HL and Corsair! My opinions are my own and not representative of this site or its members.  | ||||||||||||||
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| "the piano playin Gimp"
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| The Final Word
 | Re: Got the ok for a new build!! Yeah, there is just no reason to recommend AMD right now. INTEL QX9650 ASUS Maximus Extreme 4GB DDR3-1600 Sapphire HD 3870X2 Danger Den Torture Rack (Custom W/C) Seagate 750GB HDD BFG ES 800W PSU | ||||||||||||||
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