I just wanted to say thanks for all of the help I recieved from this forum with regards to setting up my FIRST BUILD EVER. I put everything together last night with no additional help (besides what I had read on this forum of course). Started up perfectly on first boot (thank you lord). A couple hours later I was playing BioShock on all high at 1680x1050 or whatever the hell rediculous resolution I am running.
e8400
Gigabyte DS3L (e8400 worked right out the box by the way)
Diamond HD 3850 512
Antex Earth watts 380 (hell yes this super low power system seems to be doing fine)
NZXT Apollo Black Case (warning about this case - no speaker for POST - made me very nervous but everything worked out on first go so it was non-issue)
Patriot Extreeme 4 GB (2x2GB) 800 - 5-5-5-12
Seagate 250g
Arctic Coolin Freezer 7 Pro
22" Widescreen Acer 5ms
Logitech X-530 speakers
Vist Home Premium OEM
Already have a mouse and just need a new keyboard (old one is so nasty and I want some back-lit keys)
I can post pictures maybe sometime in the future if anyone cares but it doesn't really look all that exciting.
e8400
Gigabyte DS3L (e8400 worked right out the box by the way)
Diamond HD 3850 512
Antex Earth watts 380 (hell yes this super low power system seems to be doing fine)
NZXT Apollo Black Case (warning about this case - no speaker for POST - made me very nervous but everything worked out on first go so it was non-issue)
Patriot Extreeme 4 GB (2x2GB) 800 - 5-5-5-12
Seagate 250g
Arctic Coolin Freezer 7 Pro
22" Widescreen Acer 5ms
Logitech X-530 speakers
Vist Home Premium OEM
Already have a mouse and just need a new keyboard (old one is so nasty and I want some back-lit keys)
I can post pictures maybe sometime in the future if anyone cares but it doesn't really look all that exciting.