[Johnny9ball]

I have been working feveriously getting the parts to gether for a new computer. Here is all my final FINAL choices for my new build. I am hoping I can get to around 3.6+ on my E6600 with the Thermalright Ultra-120. I have everything ordered and should be here within the next 5-7 days. If anything looks grievously out of place or wrong tell me.

Case---Thermaltake Armor Silver Full Tower +25cm Side Fan $188.00
http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A1311438

Processor---Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor $313.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115003

Video Card ---EVGA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB 384bit GDDR3 $530.00
http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA9602827

Fans---Noctua fans for the win! 2x 120mm 1600RPM 2x 80mm 1800Rpm with Fan controller SilenX 120x120x38mm - 18dBA - 90CFM 1400Rpm(for CPU) and AcoustiFan Soft Silicon Fan Gasket for all fans $80
http://www.acousticpc.com/index_quie...uter_fans.html

Sound Card---Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1 Channels $70.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16829102006

Hard Drive---Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM 16MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive $209.99 $179.99 mail in
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136012

Power Supply---CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V 2.91 520W +12@40Amps $101.99
http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA6200026

Motherboard---GIGABYTE GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 Rev 3.3 $118.88
http://clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4830994

Memory---D9GMH G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) $239.00
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065

CPU cooling---Thermalright ULTRA-120 $45
http://www.acousticpc.com/thermalrig...pu_cooler.html

Optical drives---LITE-ON Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM IDE Burner - OEM $27
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106042


Total = $1890ish Took my old computer apart and sold the parts on Ebay - $668 = New total $1222 YAY!!! :attn:

[spunky20010]

looks pretty solid. Only thing I could notice is that you only have one 8800 in there? C'mon now wheres the SLI! all you need is a lil diff MB and another Grafix card and your almost there....

No but really it looks like a good setup

[Mark]

Also a little surprised you're going for such a small Hard drive...

'cmon ... you should be looking at a minimum 300Gig these days (especialy when Vi$ta bloatware really starts taking a hold)...

[nemac4]

Looks like a sweet rig.
:beer:

[rwhunt99]

Looks like a pretty good setup !!

However; I do agree with Nemac about your hdd drive, and you could really use a raid setup, mirrored for backup duties also. You didn't mention if this is a 3D application specific computer or a good Hard Core Gaming setup.

Seems to me that maybe the case is a bit expensive because you are buying the PS separately, but that's just me:bandit:

[Johnny9ball]

I am adding a 500gig later for storage. The 150 Raptor is simply for speed and performance. I will probably add another raptor in Raid 0 later to.

SLI is expensive and unneeded. The only thing its good for is making your E-P3nis a little bigger.

[Mark]

Originally posted by Johnny9ball SLI is expensive and unneeded. The only thing its good for is making your E-P3nis a little bigger. [/B]

I thought that until I played Half Life 2 at 1600x1200 in glorious HDRI at 60fps (shame I didn't get to keep the rig)...

[Johnny9ball]

I could play HL2 on my 24" dell widescreen on my X800XTPE all maxed out excellent framrates at 1680x1050 so no sli isnt needed yet. Though crysis maxed out might change that.

[Johnny9ball]

Update........Rig is done and Rocks Hard@!!!!! You can check it out here!

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...d.php?t=253942

[Fallenswordsman]

Bah, can't see the pretty pictures without belonging to the forum. Any chance of one or two here? :headbang:

And how is Lightwave faring up on the beast?

[Johnny9ball]

View pics here. I havent installed lightwave just yet. I am working on getting a stable overclock on 3.2Mhz and it seams that I have acomplished that. Just have to run a 24 hour CPU stress test.

http://threedcg.com/NewComp07/

[Fallenswordsman]

That's an awful lot of pretty little boxes and blue lights you have there. In the front of the first pic, on the right hand side, it looks as if you went out and bought yourself a new razor as well at the sametime. That can't be right?

[Johnny9ball]

LOL that's an IDE round cable. Well I have got my first true stable clock done on this rig. I have it at 8X400FSB for 3.2Mhz on the CPU with the ram at 4-4-4-12 800Mhz and runs Stable Orthos Ram+CPU stress test for 13 hours. Looks real good and its so freaking fast. Now to get LW9.2 and Fprime3 up and running this weekend. I also OCed the 8800GTX with 621core/972mem and cap 11534 on 3DMark06.

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/pr...projectType=14

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp

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