(All components include shipping in estimate)
Cooler Master PC-690 ~ $100
- Yate Loon 120mm x4 ~ $20
Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 ~ $60
- Yate Loon 120mm x1 ~ $4
G Skill DDR2 800 (2x2GB) x2 ~ $160
Seagate 250GB 16MB Buf. x2 ~ $140
- Until I find those 250GB 32MB ones, I'll go with these, hopefully I have better luck with this model, this time around.
Acer 20" LCD Monitor ~ $205
Gigabyte P35-DS3L ~ $90
Antec True Power Trio 650W PSU ~ $105
Intel Q6600 w/Promo# ~ $225
eVGA 9600GT ~ $156 MIR
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For serious Video Editing and gaming, how does this hold up. I'm still trying to figure out why the 250GB 32MB cache hard drives disappeared I was also considering doing a raptor for a the OS, and use 250GB for my files. Once I have enough money, I figured I would get some more 250GB drives and setup a RAID.
- I will be overclocking the Q6600 above 3.0Ghz and a bit on the graphics card.
- I have XP 64bit so I'm going to utilize the 8GB.
- I won't be upgrading my graphics card until there is a $200 card that can play Crysis at 1680x1050 with high settings.
- I plan on adding a second 20" monitor later on.
- I'm still looking at sound cards that have optical in that I will buy later this summer.
- I'll be using Adobe After Effects, Sony Vegas, and Final Cut Studio for editing (I plan on making this build a hackintosh later on for Final Cut)
- I'll be playing Call of Duty 4, UT3, Bioshock?, and Crysis (later on)
- I'm trying to keep my components quiet as possible but having overclocking in mind (at least for the processor)
- As mentioned before, I'm looking at adding some 120mm or 140mm fans to the case so some nice quiet ones will do (distribute the amount of air moved over many fans in order to drop dDA levels)
- I'm also looking at upgrading to a Q9450 later on as well
Let me know what you think! Trying to keep this around $1300 for my current components. Give any advice you have or personal success with any of the components.
Cooler Master PC-690 ~ $100
- Yate Loon 120mm x4 ~ $20
Thermalright Ultra Extreme 120 ~ $60
- Yate Loon 120mm x1 ~ $4
G Skill DDR2 800 (2x2GB) x2 ~ $160
Seagate 250GB 16MB Buf. x2 ~ $140
- Until I find those 250GB 32MB ones, I'll go with these, hopefully I have better luck with this model, this time around.
Acer 20" LCD Monitor ~ $205
Gigabyte P35-DS3L ~ $90
Antec True Power Trio 650W PSU ~ $105
Intel Q6600 w/Promo# ~ $225
eVGA 9600GT ~ $156 MIR
______________________
$1261
For serious Video Editing and gaming, how does this hold up. I'm still trying to figure out why the 250GB 32MB cache hard drives disappeared I was also considering doing a raptor for a the OS, and use 250GB for my files. Once I have enough money, I figured I would get some more 250GB drives and setup a RAID.
- I will be overclocking the Q6600 above 3.0Ghz and a bit on the graphics card.
- I have XP 64bit so I'm going to utilize the 8GB.
- I won't be upgrading my graphics card until there is a $200 card that can play Crysis at 1680x1050 with high settings.
- I plan on adding a second 20" monitor later on.
- I'm still looking at sound cards that have optical in that I will buy later this summer.
- I'll be using Adobe After Effects, Sony Vegas, and Final Cut Studio for editing (I plan on making this build a hackintosh later on for Final Cut)
- I'll be playing Call of Duty 4, UT3, Bioshock?, and Crysis (later on)
- I'm trying to keep my components quiet as possible but having overclocking in mind (at least for the processor)
- As mentioned before, I'm looking at adding some 120mm or 140mm fans to the case so some nice quiet ones will do (distribute the amount of air moved over many fans in order to drop dDA levels)
- I'm also looking at upgrading to a Q9450 later on as well
Let me know what you think! Trying to keep this around $1300 for my current components. Give any advice you have or personal success with any of the components.