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Bronze Home Brew badge WR2   07-04-2008 at 03:21:12 AM
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It doesnt look bad at all.
But I'd suggest $60 less motherboard and $60 more CPU = ASUS P5E Deluxe X48 and C2Q Q9450 2.66GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115042

How firm is your ~$1300 budget? Looks like you're going over a bit?

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taiko   07-04-2008 at 03:25:02 AM
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WR2 wrote :

It doesnt look bad at all.
But I'd suggest $60 less motherboard and $60 more CPU = ASUS P5E Deluxe X48 and C2Q Q9450 2.66GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115042

How firm is your ~$1300 budget? Looks like you're going over a bit?



Not real firm, just want to keep it around that price, not counting the monitor and thanks for the input.

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zipz0p   07-05-2008 at 12:02:07 AM
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I agree about the motherboard and processor. Otherwise, it looks great. You could also step back the PSU, you don't need 750W for that build. 550W will more than do it.

If you want to overclock, think about getting a slightly better CPU cooler.

Consider stepping the hard drive up to the WD6400AAKS http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136218
or the Spinpoint F1 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822152100

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atomyc   07-05-2008 at 02:22:13 AM
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if u bought this last week, you would have save $100 on the memory.

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shadowduck   07-05-2008 at 02:32:03 AM
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If you are not going to overclock Q9300 is ok. If you want to overclock- Q9300 is a poor choice. You don't need 1066 memory either.

Q6600 if money is an issue- otherwise Q9450.

Changes:

Change the memory to this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820220269

CPU to: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115042

Motherboard to:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128336





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hypnotico   07-05-2008 at 01:15:06 PM
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Yeah, get different memory, I took advantage of the lower price it had before (it was $90) when i ordered mine. I would get the patriot or something for half the current price. For the hd, consider the:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] WD6400AAKS

not for size, but for speed. I just ordered this because of all the great reviews. It was way more space than i needed. Heck i was considering a 160 gb drive, but couldnt pass this one up. Also, Directron has it for like $5 less.

That mobo is discontinued i think. Try to find it on the asus website. lol. They still are supporting their x38 version though. weird. I went with gigabyte ga-x48-ds4 great reviews on this.

Look back over the posts of the last week or so on this board, there are a lot of good discussions of builds in this price range.

- Hypnotico

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