Worth it?

[Kawasa]

Waiting till Black Friday to upgrade my bro's comp to ddr3
He currently has Vista, 2 gigs of ddr2 ram, my old 8800 gts.

I have a bunch of old 1gig ddr2 ram lying around.
Is it worth the $60/70 to buy a mobo with 4x240 pin slots so he can have a total of 4 gigs for 2-3 months?

oh and where do you guys buy your fans at?
any specific supplied that does outstanding LED fans?

[Mercurio]

Waiting till Black Friday to upgrade my bro's comp to ddr3
He currently has Vista, 2 gigs of ddr2 ram, my old 8800 gts.

I have a bunch of old 1gig ddr2 ram lying around.
Is it worth the $60/70 to buy a mobo with 4x240 pin slots so he can have a total of 4 gigs for 2-3 months?

oh and where do you guys buy your fans at?
any specific supplied that does outstanding LED fans?


4 Gigs is significanlty better than 2 for boxing. It's based on how rich or poor you are and how much you play if $70 bucks is worth it to you for 3 months. I guess it would be to me since I'm blowing $150/mo on this game anyway ;-p

[Heenan]

For fans, Yate Loons are considered really good price/performance. You can find the non-LED ones for as low as $3 each in bulk at some sites.

Yates @ Sidewinder (http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/yateloonfans.html)

[Kawasa]

How much of a performance increase would he find?

OH! and I forgot to ask this in my thread.
Are there any other cooling parts that I need besides case fans?
Hook it up with the links (cpu fan, heatsink, etc)!

P.S whats the size of the fan on the heatsink cpu? 120mm?

[coud]

The size depends on what cpu you talking about. From reading what you've posted so far i have no idea what cpu you have, good comprehensive reviews on heatsinks can be found at http://www.silentpcreview.com/Recommended_Heatsinks
(http://www.silentpcreview.com/Recommended_Heatsinks)

[Kawasa]

http://www.dual-boxing.com/showthread.php?t=31377&page=4

i7 930
Antec 300 Case

[coud]

I advise you invest in a decent case (not necessary only if you got spare cash lying around), i use the coolmaster cosmos S case and with just fans it keeps my pc cool when overclocked.

[alcattle]

Waiting till Black Friday to upgrade my bro's comp to ddr3
He currently has Vista, 2 gigs of ddr2 ram, my old 8800 gts.

I have a bunch of old 1gig ddr2 ram lying around.
Is it worth the $60/70 to buy a mobo with 4x240 pin slots so he can have a total of 4 gigs for 2-3 months?

oh and where do you guys buy your fans at?
any specific supplied that does outstanding LED fans?
What MB does he have now that won't take 4 sticks of RAM? Surprised it takes DDR2 if it only has 2 slots

[Kawasa]

oh, its an old stock board. there are only 2 slots on it while there are a million of ddr2 ram scattered across my room.