My New Computer Build

[Duane]

Well I finally broke down and took the stuff out of my Newegg wish list and put it in the cart on Friday. It's a little overkill but the last time I did a major system build was late 2004. Thanks to everyone who has posted advice and current system builds for helping me finalize this computer.

SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Storage Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822152100

Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3250310NS 250GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Boot Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148309

PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V NVIDIA SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified (Dual 8800 GTX and below) ATI CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817703009

ASUS Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 20X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 14X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 20X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827135156

ZALMAN CNPS9700 LED 110mm 2 Ball CPU Cooler
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835118019

Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129021

ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131284

VisionTek 900244 Radeon HD 4870 512MB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814129113

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Yorkfield 2.83GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115041

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231166

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit English 1pk DSP OEI DVD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16832116493

Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007

[wowphreak]

vista 64 is so you can use more then 4 gigs of ram. Get 8?

[zanthor]

vista 64 is so you can use more then 4 gigs of ram. Get 8?

Actually it's probably so he can use all 4gb... and have the possibility of upgrading.

Since I only have 3.2 available in my Vista32 environment and never cap that playing 5 boxes I'd say busting out another 4GB would be a waste especially when the price of ram will fall before he actually needs it.

[Duane]

vista 64 is so you can use more then 4 gigs of ram. Get 8?

Actually it's probably so he can use all 4gb... and have the possibility of upgrading.

Since I only have 3.2 available in my Vista32 environment and never cap that playing 5 boxes I'd say busting out another 4GB would be a waste especially when the price of ram will fall before he actually needs it.

I actually ended up buying 8gigs of ram but I'll use this machine to do some video editing as well. I also like to have several programs running in the background so I don't think it'll go to waste.

[Duane]

Just an update. I got everything put together on Friday and this thing screams. My main is on the highest settings and the alts are all on 15/45 FPS and there is absolutely no lag in Shatt. If I had to do it over I'd get a bigger case than the nine hundred but everything else is great.

[Fizzler]

What was the approx. damage?

[Duane]

What was the approx. damage?

About $1,800 using nothing from the old computer except monitors, G11 keyboard, MX518 mouse and a pair of Bose Video Roommate speakers I've had since my first PC back in the early 90s.