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Your System - April 2007

Well I did get my system late friday the 30th march, close enough to april I hope.;)

I wanted to go with a notebook this time. Not tons of money laying around though, so I went with:

Acer Aspire 9300

AMD Turion 64 mobile technology Mk-36
2.0ghz
17``wxga+ Acer crystalbrite LCD
128mb nvida geforce
120gb hdd
dvd super multi double layer
1gb ddr2
wireless lan + ethernet card

reply to dragon
I'm building a new system rather than upgrading my old one. I'm going to use the old one exclusively for file storage while the new one will do everything else.

Bought so far:

•Silverstone TJ09 mother of all cases
*black with clear side panel option

•eVGA 680i SLI Motherboard

•5 WD SATA Raptor 36gig 10,000rpm drives
*will RAID these

•eVGA GeForce 8800GTX graphics card

•2 Cold Cathode kits to illuminate water cooling setup

•Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard

•OCZ GameXStream 700watt SLI certified power supply

•18x Samsung Lightscribe DVD burner and another burner (I can't remember the brand, I think it's LiteON)

•various UV reactive SATA cables and several 120mm case fans for water cooler and harddrive cooling

•MSI K9N SLI Platinum Socket AM2 NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard
•eVGA GeForce 7900GS 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 KO
•Thermaltake W0106RU 700W Power Supply
•AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Socket AM2 Windsor 1MB L2
•pqi 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) x2

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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Socket AM2 Windsor 1MB L2 x2*****NEW*****
ASUS Crosshair Motherboard*****NEW*****
2GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Platinum Edition Dual Channel*****NEW*****
2 XFX GeForce 7900GT Extreme 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E 16X DVI Running SLi Mode
Creative Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS
Seagate 500Gb 7200rpm (SATAII)
Seagate 400Gb 7200rpm (SATA)
Seagate 300Gb 7200rpm (SATA)
Seagate 400Gb 7200rpm(ATA-IDE)
Seagate 400Gb 7200rpm (ATA-IDE)
Maxtor 250Gb 7200rpm (USB 2.0)Metal Gear Box External
Plextor PX-760A 18X DVD±RW DL
Plextor PX-716A 16X DVD±RW DL
2X nVidia nForce 10/100/1000
1500/384 DSLExtreme ADSL
Logitech Cordless Desktop MX3000 Laser
Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24" Wide Screen Flat Panel LCD
Logitech Z-560 4.1 THX 400W Speakers
Gigabyte 3DAurora Full Tower Black Edition
Thermaltake Symphony Mini Liquid Cooling Tower*****NEW*****
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional SP-2
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AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Socket AM2 ,ASUS Crosshaor ,Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS,2X XFX GeForce 7900GT Extreme SLi, 2Gb OCZ DDR2 PC2 6400 Platinum Edition, GIGABYTE 3DAurora Black Tower,
Plextor PX-760A DVD-RW
Plextor PX-716A DVD-RW

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AMD AM2 X2 5200
ECS-KN3 SLI2 MB
2x 1 GIG GSKILL 4-4-4-12
EVGA 7600gt 256 gddr3
2-Samsung 160gb in Raid o stripe
Samsung 400gb
All in one card reader
Lite on 20x dual dvd
Lite on dvd rom
Broadway com 650w exps sli PSU
Sceptre X20 20.1 LCD

reply to dragon
I'm setting up a hot standby server for my web design/hosting business. It's gonna run Slackware as the host OS with VMWare Server managing Slackware guest OS machines. It's close in spec to the current primary server that has been a joy to have in the stable.

Antec Sonata II black case
Antec 450W SmartPower 2.0 PS
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ 2.3GHz AM2 Brisbane (Retail w/cooler)
GigaByte GA-M55PIUS-S3G AM2 MB (Nvidia GeForce 6100 onboard)
A-Data 2GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) RAM
Seagate 400GB SATA HD
LG DVD R/W & CD-R R/W
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reply to dragon
FRIED: ASUS A8V Deluxe Motherboard
Replaced with: DFI Lanparty UT nF4 SLI-DR Motherboard (added)
FRIED: ANTEC True Power II 430 Supply
Replaced with (temporarily): ANTEC True Power Trio 430 Supply (added)
CPU: AMD Ahtlon 64 4800 Toledo
RAM: Team Xtreem Cronus: Micron 5B-f 2 x 1 GB DDR-500 3,3,3,8
Video: 1 x eVGA 7900GT CO bought from fellow member (added)
HDs: 2 x WD 250 PATA (one may be dieing); 1 x IBM 80 PATA
Sound: Creative Audigy 2 ZS upgraded to platinum, refurb
HS/F: Thermalright XP-120 Lapped with Coollaboratories Liquid Metal Thermal compound for a 14 degree drop. (new conditions)
USB Controller: NEC based Adaptec 6 port (added)
Keyboard: Logitech G15 Keyboard
Mouse: MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 Leather
Sundry USB devices and used Creative Labs P7800 Speakers
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reply to dragon
Just ordered mine expected delivery 4/17, i finally get to replace my Dell p4 2.8.

Specs:
Case: NZXT Apollo Black
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 Ghz 4mb Cache
Mobo: Asus Nforce 680i SLI Model P5N32-E SLI
Ram: 2gb PC6400 DDR2 800
PSU: Thermaltake Purepower 600W W0129RU
GXF: XFX Nvidia 7900GS GDDR3 256m PVT71PUDD3

Sweet for my needs, casual gamer and spend a lot of time on the computer doing the usual interweb stuff Let the overclocking begin!!

Intel Core2Dou 6600, 4gigs of DDR2 RAM, 6 Hard Drives totaling 1668 gigs of space, Samsung DVD Super Writemaster 18x,Nvidia Geforce 7950 GT/Nvidia Geforce 7300GT, (1)19" Widescreen LCD, (2)19" LCD
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson , President, Chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp.,1977

AMD Opteron 170 @ 2.6ghz 10x260
2GB Corsair DDR 3-4-4-10 260mhz @ 2.7volts
ASUS A8N32 Deluxe SLI running 1404 beta bios
WD 80SE IDE hard drive
WD 30GIG for extra storage
52x sony CDRW
Generic 48CD-rom
XFX 6800GT 128MB @ 580mhz/1.2ghz
Windows XP64bit SP2
Enermax Liberty Modular SLI PSU

hopefully i"ll be moving to SATA and maybe raid before the end of the month.
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"Windows Has Yet To Detect A Keyboard. Press Any Key To Continue..."

reply to dragon
After building my wife an E6600 C2D system last month to replace her P4 2.8C build, I 'persuaded' her to let me build a new system for myself this month. However, to be 'politically correct,' my new build is just a tad slower than hers but not by much.

·Enermax CS-305 black case with 3 Thermaltake Thunderblade80mm LED Fans
(Red) (This is an older case I reconditioned/painted)

·Enermax FMA II ATX12V 535W Computer Power Supply EG565P-VE FMA, SLI Ready, RoHS Compliant, Supports PCI-E and; SATA, Retail with Vantec Wire Sleeving Kit (UV Red)

·ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe Socket AM2 Motherboard, nForce 570 SLI Chipset, Supports Dual-Core AMD AM2 CPU, Dual DDR2, SLI Ready

·AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Windsor 2.8GHz 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Processor – Retail

·Arctic-Cooling Freezer 64 Pro CPU Cooler, for all AMD Socket AM2, 939 / 940 CPU

·Mushkin 2GB DDR2 (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz (EM2-6400) Dual Channel System Memory, 240-Pin

·EVGA 320-P2-N811-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card – Retail

·Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB Hard Drive, SATA 3Gb/s, 16MB Cache, 7200 RPM, Model: ST3320620AS. OEM

·Black SONY DDU1615 Internal EIDE 16X DVD-ROM Drive, OEM

·Black SONY 18X E-IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner AWQ170A-B2, DVD+/-R 18X, DVD+RW 8X, DVD-RW 6X, DVD+/-R DL 8X. Bulk. RoHS. OEM

·Black Mitsumi 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy Drive, internal, D359M3D, OEM

·Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Operation System Software, OEM
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reply to dragon
Asus P5B [Added]
Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz 1066 FSB [Added]
4 x 512 meg Crucial Rendition PC2-5300 DDR 667 RAM [Added]
BFG 8600 GTS OC 256 Meg [Added]

Plextor SA716 DVD
Creative Xi-Fi Gamer
3 x HD (1 SATA 2 IDE)
OCZ PowerStream 520W
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Need-based health care not greed-based health care.

reply to dragon
Opteron 165 (Added)
DFI LanParty UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert (Added)
2x512mb pc3200 AMPO cl2.5 (added)
2x512mb pc3200 supertalent cl3 w/ heatspreaders
2x1gb Buffalo pc3200 cl3
WD 160GB IDE - Seagate Baracuda 80GB IDE
WD Caviar 250GB SATA (Added)
eVGA 6200LE (Added)
ANtec TP-II 430w
Antec 900 case (Added)
Logitech mx3100 combo keyb/mouse
Logitech z-2200 speakers

--- Pending on new items to be added ----

Corsair 520hx or 620hx
x1950 Pro or X1950 xt or 7900gs

reply to dragon
New Build 04-06-2007:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
Asus P5N32-E SLi Plus
2048 MB Crucial XMS2 DDR2
Leadtek GeForce 8800GTS 640MB
Maxtor SATA II 160GB HDD
Seagate SATA II 300GB HDD
Samsung SATA DVD Combo Drive
Cooler Master 550W PSU
Cooler Master Centurion 5 Case

reply to dragon
Built April 23 2007

AMD X2 4600 65w 2.4ghz Dual-Core processor
Gigabyte GA-M55SLI-S4 Motherboard
Gskill 2x1gig PC6400 dual channel 800mhz memory
1 Evga 7900GS KO video card (2nd card next month)
1 60gig Maxtor HD
1 80gig Maxtor HD
1 250gig Western Digital HD
1 NEC 3500A DVD drive
Turtle Beach DDL 7.1 Sound card

This system has the lowest temps on any system I have ever built. 25c idle and 32c full load.

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"You gonna pull them pistols.....or whistle Dixie"
Josey Wales