Decided to put together my own computer rather than buy a prebuilt. Just wondering if anyone here could give me some input on better parts or better deals.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16811146008

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16824179014

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813136152

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130215

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16817104152

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820145440

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819103537

Going to reuse a few parts from my older computer. IDE hard drive, sound card, cd drive, etc.

Any one got ideas for this build? Thanks for the help.

7/31/2005 10:15:39 PM

thats a solid build

youve spent lots of money elsewhere, you should think about perhaps a nicer proc -- though you do haev upgrade potential

your board is nice, dont ever use SLI, its bullshit.


people will tell you to get better ram, but benchmarks show that cas 2 vs cas 2.5 is about 1 percent boot in perfermance. not really worth the money.

7/31/2005 10:31:12 PM

1) That case is so butt ugly, useless, and rediculous looking it's, well, rediculous.

Please lord, you are willing to spend 100+ bucks on a case, get a nice, well equipped Lian-Li aluminum case or something else that isn't Ricer plastic heaven.

2) STAY AWAY FROM OCZ POWER SUPPLIES.

Again, spending that much, you can afford a good Enermax psu. Or bump up a little more for a PC Power & Cooling unit. Antec Truepower is an okay series, and the E-power units have done pretty well. For cheaper units, Fortron is the way to go.

3) Look at OCZ memory, it's going to have better timings than the Corsair for about the same price.

4) Make sure your existing hard drive is a 7200rpm drive. If not, you will definitely want to upgrade to a 7200rpm SATA drive.

7/31/2005 10:53:29 PM

its getting hard to find a nice ol baige case to get inventive with with all the new fugliness wandering about

7/31/2005 10:55:21 PM

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"1) That case is so butt ugly, useless, and rediculous looking it's, well, rediculous."

i don't know anything about hardware but that case looks fucking ugly

7/31/2005 10:55:25 PM

im kinda skeptical about that things cooling ability

120 is just too much to spend on a case w/o a psu you are gonna use

u can get a riced case for 30

7/31/2005 10:58:15 PM

Shit, I just got Enlight plain-ass beight cases for my last two builds. Relatively cheap and well set up. Easy as hell to pop drives in and out, and pop the mobo when I need to.

Fan is noisy as shit, though...I got temp-sensor variable speed fans instead.

7/31/2005 11:22:20 PM

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"i don't know anything about hardware but that case looks fucking ugly"

aha, took the words out of my mouth

i agree 100%

-ZiP!-

7/31/2005 11:26:24 PM

you might find a few good deals
at http://www.anywaypc.com

use coupon nc801gosmo

for monday august 1st only

8/1/2005 12:33:04 AM

If you're dead set on getting that DFI board, take the time and do a little reading at http://www.dfi-street.com. Good board with a ton of info about all of DFI's boards. The admins (Angry_Games and RGone) are actual DFI employee's and very frequent posters. Really helped me out getting my NF4 SLI-DR up and running without a hitch.

8/1/2005 12:57:15 AM

^^uh nothing on that site pertains to his build at all. Buy an AD.

8/1/2005 1:14:32 AM