Last Gaming System to ask about

jdl786

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This is the last gaming system I'll be asking about. Any and all thoughts and comments will be appreciated.

Please look this over and see if everything looks legit. Is this a system that will keep me going for a few years?

The side door of the case is custom, along with the paint scheme. I have all the water cooling components as well, not installed..1/2" setup, which i would throw into the deal if wanted. . I have well over $2000 invested.
Very expandable, up to 8 gigs memory, 9 total SATA ports(one external), 1 free PCI Express port, 6 USB 2.0 Ports, and will accept up to an Phenom X4 9750(have most up to date bios). It will even do SATA RAID. Dual Gigabit Ethernet.
This mobo has copper heatpipe technology. AMD Cool N Quiet, AINOS, AMD LIVE....so many overclocking settings.
Specs:
Windows XP X64 Edition with SP2
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5600+(2.8ghz) (runs @ 3.12ghz x2 solid as a rock (Windsor core) and has ran at this speed going on 6 months. Is stable up to 3.4Ghz/each core, on air. Multipliers fully unlocked.
Thermaltake TMG A3 92mm Enter CPU Cooler (runs about 42-45C under full load overclocked)
PC Power and Cooling 750 Watt SLI/Pentium 4/AMD X2/X4 ready power supply with braided wires.
Asus M2N32 WS Professional SLI Motherboard, complete specs here http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=mBDSvKdwaNonTlOn
Mushkin Enhanced 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit, with EPP Profiles(SLI Enhanced)
LSI Logic LSI20320-R 68 Pin u320 SCSI Controller card running two 10,000rpm Ultra 320 Maxtor Atlas's in Raid 0 (117MB/sec sustained, 220MB/Sec burst) 70Gigs total
Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 16MB Cache 3Gb/Sec 500gig SataII hard drive(4 yrs left on warranty), have box it came in. (gets 90MB/Sec transfer sustained, 233Mb/Sec Burst)
Evga GTX 260 Graphics card (896 mb, PCI Express) 3 total display output including HDMI.
Soundblaster Audigy Gamer 2ZS 7.1 surround sound card with Firewire port
Klipsche ProMedia THX certified speakers 2.1 w/subwoofer. They have input jack(for mp3 player, etc as well as headphone jack) 200watts.http://www.klipsch.com/products/details/promedia-2-1.aspx
LG Combo DVD Burner/Reader/CD burner Drive
Saitek Lighted gaming keyboard with additional Numpad
Custom Aluminum Thermaltake Xaser II Case with Hardcano fan speed control and digital temp readout. Case can be locked, both side door and front. I have the keys.
22" Acer AL2216W LCD with HDMI, DVI-i, and 15 pin inputs
I have over $400 in the SCSI equipment alone
Benchmark scores:
3DMark 06=12,480
3DMark 05=18,198
Aquamark when i ran 32bit OS= over 100k
SiSoft Memory Bandwidth Scores=10.42GIG/sec (faster than 790FX w/Phenom 9750 and DDR3)
Runs current games silky smooth@ 1680x1050 resolution, Games like FarCry 2, Crysis Warhead, Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, etc.
Again, serious inquiries only!! This system was built using the best possible equipment for stability, speed, and high framrates. This would also make a very fast system for doing 3D renderings, Photoshop, anything graphic.memory intensive. I have most boxes, manuals, receipts.

This guy is asking $1000.00 which is out of my budget but if nothing else, you people have convinced me my cheap plan wasn't the correct way to go.

Again, thanks to all who took the time and efforts to assist me.
Jim
 

mildiner86

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my system gets 14k on 3d mark so thats not far off and i can play all games fine atm.

id be tempted to wana have a new CPU but as for gaming right now its fine.

just so u know a coire i7@3.6Ghz 6GB ram and 4870 x 2 gets a 3d mark 06 score of 23k
 

jdl786

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Thanks for your reply and remarks. What CPU would you replace this one with?
 
Any other choices in motherboards? That Asus M2N32 MB is at least two years old which is about 2-3 models obsolete.

Is ASUS M4A79T Deluxe an option? Use that with a AMD Phenom II X4 920 2.8GHz.
 

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