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taiko

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08-19-2008 at 08:02:22 AM

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/ [...] tle=gaming

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dirtmountain

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08-19-2008 at 08:23:47 AM

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Couple of problems, you have a good 750w power supply, but your case has an included 550w power supply with it. Change the case to an Antec 300 or 900 or coolermaster 690. Save a chunk of cash and get a better case.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811129042
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you have a very top end X48 motherboard that supports crossfiring ATI cards, but have a nVidia card picked out, get the HD4850 for cheaper and about the same performance. That way you can add another graphic card in the future in crossfire.
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you have 2 mobos listed in your wishlist, you only need 1.
Get 2x2 GB of DDR2 800 RAM instead of the 2x1 GB DDR2 1066

Message edited by dirtmountain on 08-19-2008 at 08:24:58 AM

kenratboy

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08-19-2008 at 08:24:01 AM

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Looks good. My thoughts (as in opinions, and please correct me if I am wrong):

-Get the 640 GB Western Digital HD, it uses only 2 platters and has received rave reviews (VERY fast).
-Is a $300 motherboard really needed?
-Definitely get 4GB of RAM, it will not hurt anything!
-Did you give any consideration to the ATI 4850 or 4870? The 9800 GTX+ is a great card, so not like its gonna suck or anything.
-Is that case going to provide enough cooling? With that motherboard, I assume you want to overclock the snot out of the CPU?
-I don't see a valid license for an operating system

If you ordered all that tonight, I am sure you would be just fine, but the people here really helped me tweak my selection. If anything, I wonder if you may be off spending $150 less on the motherboard and putting that money elsewhere.