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vanillacena   09-30-2009 at 03:56:17 AM

Hey everyone :hello:

Antec Nine Hundred Two:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811129058
Will be painted white, I think it will turn out really cool.

CORSAIR CMPSU-1000HX:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6817139007
Future-proof, I have one in my other build and it's served me well.

Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822136284

OCZ Platinum 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820227381
Is there any other RAM you could recommend? This seems to be the best besides the overpriced dominators.

Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem 2.66GHz:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819115202

EVGA 896-P3-1171-AR GeForce GTX 275 Superclocked Edition 896MB:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130478
Do you think it would be better the stick with a GTX 260 instead?

EVGA E758-A1 3-Way SLI:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813188039
Spent days deciding on a mobo, ended up deciding on this. I have an Asus P6T deluxe in my other build, but I feel as though this is a much better alternative.

Please feel free to criticize this build. It will primarily be for my girlfriend (and me occasionally) for gaming. SLI will probably be used in the future, when the price of a second GTX 275 is reasonable. Also, if you can recommend a good 1080p monitor that would be awesome. I don't know much when it comes to displays.


Message edited by vanillacena on 09-30-2009 at 03:59:46 AM
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buwish   09-30-2009 at 06:35:13 AM

Everything looks great to me. However, do you plan on partitioning off the HD, i.e. a partition for the OS, one for apps, etc...? If not, I would suggest maybe another, smaller HD for your OS. I like to do so to safe guard my vital data and such, but that's just me.

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Twoboxer   09-30-2009 at 07:17:13 AM

You seem to be committed to nVidia. Is that wise at this time?

5870 vs 285 et al:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 22-11.html

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vanillacena   09-30-2009 at 07:40:20 AM

I will be partitioning part of the TB for the OS, so one HDD will be fine.

I've been using nVidia for years., and haven't had a single problem with them. I just can't see myself turning to ATI over some benchmarks. I hate to sound fanboy-ish, but it seems as though ATI always has this "upperhand" but then nVidia always pulls through with something amazing and groundbreaking :) . So yeah, I'm pretty dead set on getting the GTX 260 or 275. I'm thinking something will come out before my step-up expires. My primary machine has a GTX 260 so if I took that route I would have the option of SLI in either one of the rigs in the future.

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Why_Me   09-30-2009 at 08:02:30 AM

vanillacena wrote :

I will be partitioning part of the TB for the OS, so one HDD will be fine.

I've been using nVidia for years., and haven't had a single problem with them. I just can't see myself turning to ATI over some benchmarks. I hate to sound fanboy-ish, but it seems as though ATI always has this "upperhand" but then nVidia always pulls through with something amazing and groundbreaking :) . So yeah, I'm pretty dead set on getting the GTX 260 or 275. I'm thinking something will come out before my step-up expires. My primary machine has a GTX 260 so if I took that route I would have the option of SLI in either one of the rigs in the future.



Nvidea's new DX11 line up comes out this mid December. :)

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Twoboxer   09-30-2009 at 08:39:43 AM

vanillacena wrote :

I've been using nVidia for years., and haven't had a single problem with them. I just can't see myself turning to ATI over some benchmarks. I hate to sound fanboy-ish, but it seems as though ATI always has this "upperhand" but then nVidia always pulls through with something amazing and groundbreaking :) . So yeah, I'm pretty dead set on getting the GTX 260 or 275. I'm thinking something will come out before my step-up expires. My primary machine has a GTX 260 so if I took that route I would have the option of SLI in either one of the rigs in the future.

No problem lol. I feel much the same way, but there's this obligation to point things out . . .

Anyhow, good luck!

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