New PC Build thread #400532

Not much I can say, because it's all good stuff. The only difference I would make would be brands. I like other brands, but there isn't anything wrong with anything you selected.

GTS or GTX? I'd go GTX if you have the cash. It's supposedly better than 2 7950s in SLi, but that may or may not be saying much. However, if you don't plan on upgrading for a while, the extra $150 dollars for the GTX will probably be worth it.

Didn't see a power supply on that list. The Corsair 620W seems to be a favorite around here.

PS: If you've got money to blow on water cooling (lol) then you've got money to blow on better parts.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

lol @ AMD. Get a Core2.

I prefer Corsair over Kingston. I read a bunch of the Newegg/NCIX forums from time to time, and by the number of complaints and benchmarks, Corsair just seems to put out a better product. After a couple bad incidents, I wouldn't go OCZ again. :/

Don't go SLi unless you're rich. Within a year it'll be obsolete for half the price. Especially now when the 8800 Ultra is just around the corner and 6 months closer to the 9xxx series.

I don't specifically care about hard drives. Since I hate loud hardware, I went Samsung. Could care less about hardware failure, since I have a separate file server. Perpendicular is supposed to be a little bit faster, I've heard.

I think that PSU is a pretty decent deal. You could go Enermax too. I'm through with shit PSUs. Antec's latest is all garbage, as a few tests have shown.

Case... it depends a lot on personal preference. I don't need a "ZOMG IMMA LEET COMPUTER PLAYER BOI" with a windowed case and faggoty LED fans/lights. The one I'm using now is an Antec Solo/P150. Silent, sleek, not gigantic.

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Originally Posted by Lukage

(stuff about a case)

You should keep this in mind, that the 8800 cards have dual-slot coolers. They will fill two of those slot covers at the back of your case. Not to mention, that you will be left very little room both case-wise and motherboard-wise for and PCI cards you will want to use. A Crossfire/SLi setup on my board leaves 1 PCI slot open while the two cards are either touching themselves, or one is at the bottom of my case touching it there. :/

(and be prepared to have your case sound like a wind tunnel)

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Well, I'm not sure if everyone is a fan of that mouse and keyboard but they'll do fine. I personally like having a mouse with a few buttons on the left side for going forward and back. And ergonomic keyboard I'm so-so with. But hey they'll work just fine.

By the way, are you going to put XP Pro or Vista Ultimate on it? Just curious. I'm running Vista Ultimate on mine.

Yeah, I was gonna bitch about the keyboard and mouse, too. I'd go for the MX518 with front/back buttons or the G5 Laser with only the back button. They are essential for any FPS gamer. The newer games already have a zillion keys to push to do shit.

Vista. God. I think everyone who uses Vista needs to take a look at VLITE. Strips down a copy of your Vista disc and can reduce memory/HDD usage by one fuckton. (actual measurement) I'm gonna install Vista one of these days and test it out.

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Originally Posted by AcerBandit

What functionality does Vlite gut? I want my awesome searching, tagging, and aero glass. I'd need to know full well what would be missing before I try this out. I want to clean my entire system one of these days and I'm sure reinstalling Vista and everything wouldn't be a bad idea. I'd love to hear your experience with Vlite.

It's totally custom. You decide on what features to cut.

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Originally Posted by AcerBandit

Yeah, well I mean does it describe what each of those features does?

For example, I looked on those forums already and some dude axed Windows Mail and because of that all his user permissions for Vista got trashed. ~~~~

I don't want any of that crap happening to me. No way. I need to know exactly what I can and cannot get rid of for my ideal Vista setup.

Also, http://www.autopatcher.com/ looks pretty sweet. =)

nLite was good about giving descriptions on what things did and how they affected other things. I'd hope vLite did the same.

Not really a surprise that there are some bugged elements to the program. In fact, I helped beta test the original nLite for Windows XP. It really just boils down to how Microsoft and their shitty way of coding things, integrate a lot of the internals with each other. Like that Windows Mail issue and folder permissions(?) The program is constantly under development, so it'll get better. In the meantime, if you really depend on Vista that much, you might not wanna screw around with it.

Autopatcher is a great program, however, I'm fairly certain it won't work with either nLite or vLite. It's unaware that certain modules from the OS have been removed and tries to install them anyway. Not pretty. There was a thread around here somewhere that detailed how to install and get Vista updates through Microsoft. I'll look later.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Those cases look right terrible. Nothing screams "cheesy" more than those do.

This is the case that I'm using. Unfortunately, it comes with a 430W power supply that could end up being useless. A black version is available without a PSU. It's a fantastic case with the noise control, easy installaition and fan placement. The only down-side is that it could be slightly longer. Cards like the 1900XT or 8800GTX nearly touch hard drives in their space. Simply moving the drive to another of the 3 spots remedies that. Solid, heavy case that looks like it belongs in your home, not on Star Trek.

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Originally Posted by Alai

Yeah, I read it.

I just added that bit about the 3600+ for a little discussion. I know you already bought it. Sorry for busting in on your thread.

AMD isn't even an option unless you're piss-poor. They've only started to touch the lower-end Core2s with the 5000+, but that CPU architecture is going to hit a brick wall soon.

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