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therealleeroy   05-11-2009 at 06:42:42 AM

APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Within this month
BUDGET RANGE: 600-700 USD (not including monitor, mouse, keyboard)

SYSTEM USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Gaming, Movies, Photoshop

PARTS NOT REQUIRED: speakers, OS

PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: newegg.com

PARTS PREFERENCES: Intel

OVERCLOCKING: Yes
SLI OR CROSSFIRE: Maybe

MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1680x1050

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Preferrably a quiet pc, able to play WoW at full settings

This is what I have so far:
[50] Antec Three Hundred Mid Tower Case
[120] Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz
[95] Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L LGA 775 Intel Motherboard
[190] Sapphire 100259-1GL Radeon HD 4870 1GB
[48] G.SKILL 4GB DDR2 800 F2-6400CL5D-4GBPQ
[60] Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM
[50] OCZ Fatal1ty OCz550FTY 550W
[22] LG 22x DVD-R/DVD Burner LightScribe Black GH22LS30
[75] Zalman CNPS9900NT HSF
>>$700<<

[160] Acer X223Wbd Black 22" 5ms LCD
[50] Logitech G5 Laser Mouse
[43] Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000
>>$253<<

Grand Total: $953

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Bronze Home Brew badge Proximon   05-11-2009 at 09:59:00 AM
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Ouch. You are paying way too much for a heatsink that's not all that good.

At that price range you can do better. Did you know WoW uses up to 4 cores now?

AMD X3 720BE and Asus 790GX MB -260
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.190879

Sunbeam CCTF -30
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 4&Tpk=CCTF
Very highly rated. Comes with thermal paste. See:
http://www.frostytech.com/top5heatsinks.cfm

OCZ 1333 DDR3 4GB -60
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227287

I would switch to the BFG LS-550
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] Tpk=LS-550
It's been properly reviewed and is considered quite decent.

Plug that into your build and you'll be quite close in price I think. You'll have a slightly better board, and DDR3 as well. If you need to match RAM next year it will be less... DDR2 is rising in price right now as DDR3 is dropping.


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Bronze Home Brew badge gkay09   05-11-2009 at 02:14:09 PM
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^+1 for the X3 720...
And a big NO for the Heatsink...
If you want the bling of the Zalman, the get the 9700/ 9500 Zalman as they would give you nearly similar performance as the 9900...The 9900 is just a reworked version of those for the i7...

But like Proximon said check out the frostytech.com reviews...and buy a better performing CPU cooler rather than a better looking CPU cooler if you want to overclock...

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Bronze Home Brew badge gkay09   05-11-2009 at 02:15:44 PM
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Here are a few CPU cooler, which would be better than the Zalman for nearly half the price...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835185093
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6835233003

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