I know that number sounds stupid but hear me out. I already own the Monitor, 3 SATA 10k western Digital drives for Raid, An Antec 900 Case and most importantly
I have already picked up an Intel E8400, and I already have the Graphics Card for now, (waiting for mid summer to really through down for some sort of Dual 9series Nvidia, or dual Ati X2's)
So my 700 dollar budget is for
MoBo: 780i, x38
Ram: looking for 2x1gig 1066mhz DDr2's
Powersupply: needs to be pretty serious with at least 3 HD's, 2 optical drives and posible SLI/Crossfire and Modular cabling. (also the antec 900 seats the PSU in the bottom of the case, a fan that blows out the back would probably be best.)
Aftermarket fan. Zalman 9700led perhaps
I have not committed to SLI or crossfire any and all suggestions would be helpfull
No no no, it's best to determine the gpu setup before picking out a psu. It might be tri SLI which might need 1000W. Heck, determine the route you're going: SLI, CF, single.
I wouldn't go Tri-Sli that's way over my budget in the future. I was looking SLI or Crossfire eventually. but Kinda counting on the 9800x2 to at least drive prices of the HD3870x2 to very reasonable. I wouldn't mind paying 300 a card for crossfire, or SLI in mid summer. keep in mind though that dosnt mean I am not interested in any 780i chip set, especially since the 680i's have given people so many problems
would antec 850 quattro be ok for this? it has 4 6+2 pci-e...so its ready for the dual dual cards...
I would have Definitely considered the antec 850, it looks good, has SLI and crossfire support. there are modular cables. my question simply is is that enough power, if I have two optical drives, 3 stata hard drives, lets assume room for 4 gigs of ram, a possible dual card set up. and assume in the late late future a quad core chip.
I know that number sounds stupid but hear me out. I have not committed to SLI or crossfire any and all suggestions would be helpfull
There is nothing stupid about a $700 build, for some of us that's the best we can do. Here's my list from newegg, dosen't show a power supply, already got it from buy.com. I'm not a big time gamer and went with a less than top of the line video card, but I think it'll have some bang for a few bucks. Nothing is set in stone and list is subject to change, but the budget is right around $700
Shadow,
I love the look and performance of the ABS Tagan BZ PSU's but oddly i'm concerned with any of the PSU with that top down fan since I am going to put it into an Antec900 and it will basically blow hot air on my GPU's
Am I blowing this concern out of proportion considering the reasonably good airflow of the 900. or is their some other work around. the other reason is I could get the ABS Tagan ITZ 800 wats for only 10 bucks more
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 817814006. And it has that rear flow fan out of the case. it comes down to modular cabling and pretty looks vs wattage I suppose.
It's shared, I really don't know what the problem is, I logged out and went to public list on their site and was able to access it not signed in. I've gotten one review on the list, so I know you can see it from the site.
Search for oldnugly, or try the link, it's working and I'm logged out on the egg.
Every thing is good except for case and GPU. Since OP plans to upgrade GPU in about 2-4 months, $90 for a GPU is too much. He could just get a 8400GS and OC it to last the 3 months.
Message edited by Shadow703793 on 03-20-2008 at 02:33:26 AM
Oh I agree completely and was just making a suggestion as to what you can do with a $700 budget. I'm not locked into that case but I've done 2 builds for others with it and it's just as good as the Coolermaster Centurion. I'm not sure that's the GPU I'm going with either, it just fits in and gets changed all the time. Thanks for your comments though.
Hope the OP dosen't feel like he's been hijacked, again I just wanted to make a point that there is nothing stupid about a $700 budget.
Now back to our orginally scheduled progarm...........
