Your thoughts on this computer

Thanks prozac26

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How should I cool it?

What fan should I buy for the cpu?

the cpu comes with a stock fan, but if you're planning on overclocking you can get the zalman 9500 on zipzoomfly for about 40 something on sale.

oh, and don't forget to get arctic silver 5

dude, i just found this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 814102007R

refurbished oem x1800xt sapphire 256 for 220. that's a nice NICE price, only risk is the refurbished part, but its guarenteed to work.

look for the evga 7900gt ko, its more powerful then stock 7900gts, and a custom cooler, at

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Mer [...] idia-PCI-E

u can get it for 290 i think and u get a free age of empires 3 with that

refurbs are tested to work, so it can't be a DOA item. alot of people have been questioning the newer radeons with the 2d specs being lower than advertised, but once they hit a 3d app they shoot up to advertised speeds. people may not like that and return their item. id say you'd have a great chance of getting a quality item for a good discount, and for shader effective games like oblivion, the radeon blows the geforce away.

x1800xts are around 280 as well and no they dont "blow" nvidia cards away, look at many of the benchmarks in games that tomshardware does, most of the time its around 10fps difference, just buy watever is cheaper, ati or nvidia its dosnt matter

im not trying to argue, but gamestop has new xboxs, used xboxs, and refurbished xboxs. people claim they have a problem with their product, return it under warranty or such, and it is sent to the manufacturer. the manufacturer tests it, and if it works they send it back, or fix the part that's malfunctioning. i bet there's even a law saying that it has to work to resell it.

p.s. i would only buy refurbished if i didn't have enough money to buy retail, but i'd be confident that i'd have a working product.

they ""blow"" nvidia cards away in shader heavy games, period. they can run HDR and AA at the same time, something nvidia cant do at the moment. x1800xt are on par with price with the 7900 gt. the only real advantage to a 7900 gt is they run way better in opengl games and older games. maybe hinting older technology, eh? seriously, both are good cards, it depends on what you're playing. my advice is go for the x1800xt if you want a better card for the price, not to mention you can get a 512 for a few bucks more (sapphire 512 is 309) which will help you to play at higher resolutions.

Xbox is a modular system where it's most likely a dead HDD or PSU that's caused the problem. Needless to say a 7900GTX is not modular and therefore needs more than a work experience kid to check it over/fix it.

i know it;s kinda of out of topic but can u guys recommend me any reliable online store that sells x1800xt 256mb... one that offers competitive price and deliver it to south-east asia, singapore. (btw, for those who dont know where singapore is, it is the country where world cyber games 2006 or 2005 (i can remember, lol) was held). my budget is around 300USD. right here in my country, they only sell the 512 version and it costs 560USD (way out of my budget!)... so it'd reallly be great if u can recommend me...