I actually built this system last Month, but I thought for the heck of it I would share, and give people the opportunity to ask questions should they feel the need.
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Coolermaster ATC-200 (circa 2001)
Seasonic M12-700w PSU
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 Mobo
E8400 ($183 MC sale FTW)
Visiontek HD3870X2 (another MC sale $383!)
Mushkin Extreme DDR2-1066 (2x1GB)
Western Digital RE2 500GB SATAII HDD
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum
Samsung 20x DVD/CDRW SATA Drive
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Razer Boomslang CE2007
Viewsonic VP930b 19" LCD Monitor (i got this in late 06, still nice)
Sennheiser HD590 Headphones (fantastic, but discontinued for several years now)
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I have plans to add a 22" Widescreen Viewsonic (VP2250wb)
and I would have liked to have Snapped up a Silverstone TJ04 Mid-Tower Case, but alas, i had to pinch pennies somewhere.
Ultimately, I also got a CM Hyper 212 HSF, but it wouldn't let me close the side of my case, and the NB chipset gets alot hotter than my CPU seems to, so i opted to not pry off the "crazycool" backside Heatsink for now.
Initial testing shows;
14,614 3dMark06 stock; OC to 3.73 + mild gfx OC = 16,730
Currently sitting happily at 3.6GHz on an Intel D-Series HSF (Copper Core) @ 1.280v
Ram I've kept relatively stock EPP settings 1096@ 2.10v 5-5-4-12. I have gotten them to 1120MHz without relaxing timings, and I can probably go faster.
in all it's glory before i swapped back to OEM cooling.
http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=systeminstalledtb0.jpg
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Coolermaster ATC-200 (circa 2001)
Seasonic M12-700w PSU
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6 Mobo
E8400 ($183 MC sale FTW)
Visiontek HD3870X2 (another MC sale $383!)
Mushkin Extreme DDR2-1066 (2x1GB)
Western Digital RE2 500GB SATAII HDD
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Platinum
Samsung 20x DVD/CDRW SATA Drive
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Razer Boomslang CE2007
Viewsonic VP930b 19" LCD Monitor (i got this in late 06, still nice)
Sennheiser HD590 Headphones (fantastic, but discontinued for several years now)
___________________________________________________________________________
I have plans to add a 22" Widescreen Viewsonic (VP2250wb)
and I would have liked to have Snapped up a Silverstone TJ04 Mid-Tower Case, but alas, i had to pinch pennies somewhere.
Ultimately, I also got a CM Hyper 212 HSF, but it wouldn't let me close the side of my case, and the NB chipset gets alot hotter than my CPU seems to, so i opted to not pry off the "crazycool" backside Heatsink for now.
Initial testing shows;
14,614 3dMark06 stock; OC to 3.73 + mild gfx OC = 16,730
Currently sitting happily at 3.6GHz on an Intel D-Series HSF (Copper Core) @ 1.280v
Ram I've kept relatively stock EPP settings 1096@ 2.10v 5-5-4-12. I have gotten them to 1120MHz without relaxing timings, and I can probably go faster.
in all it's glory before i swapped back to OEM cooling.
http://img519.imageshack.us/my.php?image=systeminstalledtb0.jpg
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