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Sofakingbroke   02-07-2008 at 11:34:40 PM

Case: CM 830
Motherboard: ASUS P5N32-E SLI nForce 680i
CPU:Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
CPU Cooling: Swiftech H2O-H120 Water Cooling system with Swiftech Apogee Water block, radiator, water tank, water pump, 120mm fan
RAM:8GB (4 X 2GB sticks) G.Skill DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15 latency) @ 1.8V.
Hard Drive: 1TB (1000 GB) Hitachi Deskstar - SATA 3.0 with 32MB cacheDVD
Drives: 2 X Samsung 18X DVD Burners
Flash Drive:Sabrent 52-in-1 media card reader
Video Card: 2 X EVGA GeForce 8800 Ultra in SLI with 768MB GDDR3 each
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi XTreme Gamer
Case Fans:6 X Scythe 120mm fans with Sony bearings (63 CFM each)
Operating System: Windows XP Pro 64bit
Power Supply: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200 Watt power supply - with modular cabling

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rgeist554   02-07-2008 at 11:47:58 PM
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It probably costs about 2k+ if that's what you're wondering.

Personally, I would wait for the new stuff before you pay that price for year old equipment. The Q9450's should be just around the corner... There are already 780i and 790 chipsets being released. The 8800 Ultra's are good, but as I said earlier, they're a little old.

What type of monitor would you be hooking this into? If it's anything less than 24", then I highly recommend you not even consider this setup with SLI.

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Smoked Turkey   02-08-2008 at 12:45:56 AM
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I'd go with 8800GT's and get very similar performance at less price.

I'd also look into a smaller RAID 0 setup for the OS and apps, and then say a 500GB 3rd drive for storage.

With the water cooling I am guessing you are planning on overclocking and in that case I'd look into some better memory 4-4-4-12 2-2.2v

What are you gonna be doing with the system? Cause I'd just go with the E8400 for gaming and maybe look into the QX9650 for other.

If you go with the 8800GT's the 1200 watter will be mega-overkill (and is probably over kill now)

sofakingbroke wants to spend 2500
hmm

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Sofakingbroke   02-08-2008 at 12:58:01 AM
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oh this is a comp that is available on ebay - so can't really customize it as it's someone getting rid of it.

I priced it up on newegg and it came to ~$3500.

The 2 ultra's would be overkill for me, so I would more then likely sell one or both of them (and get a single g92 card)


It's not like it's life or death that i get a new comp now, it's just been about 4-5 years and mine is really starting to show it's age now.

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Smoked Turkey   02-08-2008 at 07:07:58 PM
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right then

Uh, doesn't look bad but I'd take the time to build one myself If I was going to spend that much. Esp if you are just going to sell some of the parts.

IMO

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