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Philosomer   05-16-2007 at 04:03:31 AM

Hi everyone. I am trying to build a gaming PC, and I am hoping someone could give me some help. Here what I came up with:

Processor - Intel Core™2 Duo Processor E6700 w/ 4MB Cache

Motherboard - XFX nForce 680i LT SLI w/ DualDDR2 800, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, 1394, Dual PCI-E x16 SLI

RAM - Crucial BallistiX Tracer 2GB PC2-6400 Dual Channel DDR2 Kit w/ LED (2 x 1GB)

Case - Thermaltake VA3000BWA Tsunami Dream Tower, Black w/ Window

Power Supply - OCZ 600W GameXStream Power Supply w/ Quad +12V

Hard Drive - Maxtor 500GB MaxLine Pro 500 7200RPM SATAII w/ 16MB Cache

DVD Drive - Samsung SH-S183L Lightscribe 18x18 Dual Layer DVD+/-RW, SATA, Black

Video Card - OCZ GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCI-E w/ Dual DVI, HDTV-Out

As I've mentioned, this is my first homebuilt, and I am lot even sure if these parts will work together ... so any advice is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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hunter_green32   05-16-2007 at 04:18:18 AM
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Im hating on your hard drive choice, maxtors always suck in benchmarks against other drives. Get a Western Digital, or a Deskstar from Hitachi Global Storage.

The WD drive that most directly competes with (crushes on) the maxtor you have chosen would be the Western Digital WD5000AAKS:

112$ WD5000AAKS http://www.muotitek.com/estore/con [...] srccode=PW

A better 500GB solution from Western Digital is the WD5000KS:

139$ WD5000KS http://www.neqx.com/product.asp?pf_id=HD168

Happy Building

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hunter_green32   05-16-2007 at 04:32:54 AM
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Seagate makes some very respectable drives, also.

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gators1223   05-16-2007 at 04:47:30 AM
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it should all work together but i would definitly go for Western Digital hard drives they seem to be much more reliable

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Philosomer   05-16-2007 at 05:14:54 AM
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Wow, you guys are fast.

I was going to buy from newegg, but I don't think they ship to Canada. I am looking at this place, http://www.memoryexpress.com, because I can pick up locally. But their selection is limited. So maybe someone could take a quick look and make some suggestions from what they have.

Your advice so far has been very helpful (logainofhades, you just saved me a couple hundred bucks!) Thanks again.

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samsayit   05-16-2007 at 05:27:11 AM
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Seagate makes some very respectable drives, also.



Yup. I would stick to either Seagate, Hitachi, Maxtor or Western Digital. Anyone of those should be rather equal I believe...

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alcattle   05-16-2007 at 05:47:07 AM
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The new Samsung Spinpoint 500gb is very highly rated, I got one to put in my next build.

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