- Apr 24, 2008
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My apologies for bringing this up again...I originally came her back in May, and akhilles helped me work up a wonderful build. (Thanks a bunch for your help akhilles!) Sadly my money fell though, and I didn't get to build it. Now some of the parts are unavailable. And when I leave my computer on with my new fan for a typical day (10-14 hours) the fan sometimes makes noise starting around hour 9... Or at least it sounds like the fan. (I may just be paranoid, but I don't trust my old P4.)
■My most graphics intense game is The Sims, and Petz 5. No new games in sight for a long wile. (I prefer my Nintendo DS.)
■I have a bad habit of running 25+ image heavy Firefox tabs across three windows; with twirl, Windows Live Messenger, Thunderbird, and music in the background.
■Music = Pandora via IE window, Windows Media Player 9, or iTunes.
■I edit photographs, and scans of artwork in GIMP.
■Most of my other work is blogging, or writing in word.
■Operating System will be Windows XP Pro SP2 or SP3.
So here we go...
■Antec Sonata III 500 Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower ■Computer Case 500W Power Supply
■GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
■Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA
■G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
■Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB
Total w/ Sales tax $586.62 From newegg.com (I live in TN).
Now then.. That leaves about $113.38 (less sales tax) for the graphics card, and a CD/DVD set up. I'd prefer to be around $700 dollars total. I can go a little bit over, but not very much. As all the money is coming out of my savings account/emergency fund. I'm thinking about downgrading from the 3.16GHz processor to the 3.0 as It'll save a few dollars that I could use to add to the other things that I need.
Could someone recommend a Graphics card, and a CD and/or DVD burner? Please? (Preferably one that The Sims Complete's DRM works with... It hates my TDK CD Burner.)
■My most graphics intense game is The Sims, and Petz 5. No new games in sight for a long wile. (I prefer my Nintendo DS.)
■I have a bad habit of running 25+ image heavy Firefox tabs across three windows; with twirl, Windows Live Messenger, Thunderbird, and music in the background.
■Music = Pandora via IE window, Windows Media Player 9, or iTunes.
■I edit photographs, and scans of artwork in GIMP.
■Most of my other work is blogging, or writing in word.
■Operating System will be Windows XP Pro SP2 or SP3.
So here we go...
■Antec Sonata III 500 Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower ■Computer Case 500W Power Supply
■GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard
■Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA
■G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
■Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB
Total w/ Sales tax $586.62 From newegg.com (I live in TN).
Now then.. That leaves about $113.38 (less sales tax) for the graphics card, and a CD/DVD set up. I'd prefer to be around $700 dollars total. I can go a little bit over, but not very much. As all the money is coming out of my savings account/emergency fund. I'm thinking about downgrading from the 3.16GHz processor to the 3.0 as It'll save a few dollars that I could use to add to the other things that I need.
Could someone recommend a Graphics card, and a CD and/or DVD burner? Please? (Preferably one that The Sims Complete's DRM works with... It hates my TDK CD Burner.)
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