*Guide to Choosing Parts* - Page 2

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I was unaware of the cache unimportance for the 320/640s, thanks. it's just why wouldn't WD supply at least the industry standard three-year warranty for a hdd? ive heard good things about both companies tho.

Was skimming through mainly, I saw someone point out that your post is more intel oritented, maybe you should update your second post and make it an AMD build for extreme budget?

well after you get to 16mb cache, any more becomes virtually useless, its basically a marketing ploy. i mean the fastest mechanical drives on the market, the velociraptors "only' have 16mb cache. WD 640GB AAKS drive is fast as it uses two platters don't worry about the extra cache in drives, its unnecessary.

FYI EVGA 780i ship with poorly made Sata cables that cant handle being bent. If your going to go this route factor in new sata cables in your budget.

Added a brief description of x58 and i7.

Im currently building my first PC and have chosen these components, would these work well or are there some obvious things i could do to improve it/make it slightly cheaper?

- Intel core 2 quad Q6600 GO Stepping 2.4Ghz 1066mhz 8mb cache
- ASUS p5Q SE ip45 socket 775 8 channel audio ATX motherboard
- EVGA 8800GT superclocked 512mb GDDR3 DVI HDCP HDTV out PCI-E
- Seagate ST350032OAS 500GB HD SATA II 7200rpm *32mb cache - OEM
- OCZ 2gb kit (2x1Gb) DDR 2 800mhz/PC2-6400 CL 4-4-4-15 platinum XTC

I would like it to run current top of the range games and be possible to upgrade well in the future.

Jimbob, please start your own thread for build discussions

I kno this is irrelevant
BUT

STICKY STICKY STICKY

time to update for nov. 08 best vid card for the money article
Thanks for your write-up, it's quite convenient and answers a lot of the "noob" questions.

IMO, you could discuss the monitors a bit, just as you do the rest of the components. This becomes especially important with the reduced prices on larger WS monitors, general availability of SLI/XF boards and whatnot.

Minor updates.

Linked.

I wish they hadn't broken my signature Every time I even edit a post that had my sig the sig disappears.

Anyway, when was the last time you saw someone official post in this forum or respond in the "bugs" forum? granted it's a well-behaved community, but I think the whole moderator/admin thing is a myth here

I'll be updating this with i7 info and DDR3 stuff to go along late tomorrow.

We have a 9 month old thread that is stickied which no longer has valid information but we can't seem to get this thread a sticky~

Are the forum mods on a indefinite vacation?

Thx

A little bump for the Black Friday shoppers.

This person has done some good work:

computer-builder.com

No pros, no cons in terms of mixing brands on your motherboard and your video card.

There may be pros and cons between video card brands regarding cooling, fan noise, factory overclocks etc but that's a different matter.

needs a bump to get back

I have made a few changes, mostly in light of the recent article here on TH:
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2095.html

This information along with solid numbers on x58 kind of make x38 and x48 obsolete, unless there are some hefty price cuts.

Some minor updates.

To the top!

And thanks for both your guides as a new builder who didn't have a clue, this is a post that every new builder who is doing research and wanting to find a good guide should look at. Very informative but very simple and concise!

This would be a great sticky!

+1.

Still no stickie?

Basically, you can build an AMD rig today and be pretty happy about it. Not quite as happy as if you built with Intel maybe, but pretty happy.

good to see it getting stickied finally...