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PhoenixDown
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Build Review?

Wanted to get a second opinion before I went out and picked this up. The most intensive applications will be ripping DVD's (why I went with a quad core) and playing world of warcraft so this might be overkill in some ways. I would wait for the new intels to come out but my current pc is dead and I just dont want to wait.

CPU $319.00
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···19115041

Heatsink Included

MotherBoard $214.00
EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···13188024

Ram $72.00
G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
two sets for 4 gigs
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···20231098

Video Card $289.00
EVGA 896-P3-1262-AR GeForce GTX 260 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···14130372

DVD / BRAY $30.00
Any Dual Layer SATA drive

Case $99.00
Antec 900
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···11129021

Power $134.00
PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified (Dual 8800 GTX and below) CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply - Retail
»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···17703009

OS $100.00
Vista Home Premium 32 bit (any difference using 64 bit?)

Total $1,257.00
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The Flash
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Re: Build Review?

Get Vista 64 bit for sure, and get a Corsair 750W PSU instead.
permalink · 2008-11-07 14:52:08 · Reply to this
m8trix

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Phoenix, AZ		 get vista 64bit so it can use all 4 gigs other wise it will only use 3.2
permalink · 2008-11-07 15:05:31 · Reply to this

jouno53
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United State		 Get G.Skill 2x2gb and save some money
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crasher6
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Bayonne, NJ		 If you are gonna get GTX 260 you might as well get the one with the 216 processing cores.

»www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···14130400
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Octavean
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New York, NY		 It doesn't sound like you need a Quad Core but the new Intel Core i7 has an ETA of some time later this month. I hear something in and around 10 days from now.
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 I honestly can't reccomend the 780i SLI. You can get the 750i SLI FTW for about $50 less - And it offers almost everything the 780i offers. The only thing different is that the 750i doesn't support SLI enabled memory, and the 3rd PCI-E slot. Both of the aforementioned features are worthless to 99% of the people out there anyways. It should be mentioned that the 750i SLI FTW overclocks much better, and does in fact offer 16x lanes on both pci-e slots in SLI mode.
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PhoenixDown
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 Thank you for the feedback and additional recommendations.

It sucks, I was going to wait for the i7 to come out and pick up the quad core when the rates dropped but my old rig died on me and I want to be up and running again this week. Addictions suck
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Re: Build Review?

said by PhoenixDown See Profile :

Thank you for the feedback and additional recommendations.

It sucks, I was going to wait for the i7 to come out and pick up the quad core when the rates dropped but my old rig died on me and I want to be up and running again this week. Addictions suck
I don't think i7 would be a good choice, everything else would be expensive, mobo ram etc.
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PhoenixDown
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Re: Build Review?

oh sorry I wasn't going to get the i7 just waiting for it to come out to drive the others down in price.
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Octavean
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said by PhoenixDown See Profile :

Thank you for the feedback and additional recommendations.

It sucks, I was going to wait for the i7 to come out and pick up the quad core when the rates dropped but my old rig died on me and I want to be up and running again this week. Addictions suck
Intel Core i7 and X58 is now here:

»Intel Core i7 920 2.67GHz 1366 Quad-Core $299.99 in store
»MSI X58 Platinum LGA 1366 Retail Motherboard $220.99

Not too bad on price IMO.
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 just buy a Q6600 and save $100+

4GB for less... »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···20231122

all factory overclocked cards are a waste of money. buy a vanilla/plain 260 and save $50 and get 3% less performance, or overclock it yourself.

go with a simple P45 board and save $100: »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···13131299
or the 750i SLI FTW: »www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a···13188026
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