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Case - Cooler Master RC690 (new case)
Mobo - Gigabyte P35-DS3P
Video Card - EVGA 640 8800GTS
CPU - Intel Q6600
Hard Drives - 4 Seagates 160gig (I plan on running two Raid 1s)
Power Supply - Corsair 620W
RAM - Crucial Ballistic PC2 6400 2x1gb (2 sets for 4gb)
Some keyboard not sure yet
A floppy drive - need this to load stinking Raid drivers (one would think they could figure out a different way)
DVD - Ripping out BenQ from old computer
CPU Heatsink - Zalmann CNPS9500 92mm
Case Fans - 2 Scythe Minebea Silent IC Series 120mm
Speakers - Logitech Z4 (I am not an audiophile, but I would like a decent set of speaks since my old pair stopped working on my current computer this week)

Undecided about O/S, either XP or Vista. Too many varying opinions on what works and what doesn't with Vista, drives me up the wall just reading all of the opinions.

This computer will be used for some gaming (mainly Crysis and BF4), I do quite a bit of home movie capturing and encoding to mpeg2, photo editing and the typical get on the internet and goof off.


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