Originally Posted by
Grifter
my new rig costs about 6k
6k is overkill and you are getting stuff really not needed. You can buy a sweet kickass machine for $3500 CAD.
Originally Posted by
DakarM
To be purchased.
mb: asus striker extreme
ram: 4gb of something
i'm going to transfer the dvd drive from the old rig
boot drive: 300gb SAS on an adaptec SAS controller
storage: 2 x 1TB sata
Video: 8800gts 640mb
monitor: dell 2407 (already have this one)
4GB isn't worth it as you'll only ever seen between 2.5-3.5 of acutal useful memory in windows due to it being 32bit.
Originally Posted by
H-Accord-22
damn, ballers, I can't compete
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Btw, does it have to be SLI?
I'm going the other way though.
P35 Chipset
1333mhz speed proved and X-fire support.
Btw, I heard that Quadcore may not be that efficient in gaming compared to others. Multitasks = 2 thumbsup, but gaming isn't so quite
What are you going to use for cooling?
Duo Core and Quad core isn't efficient for a lot of stuff because the program or game isn't written with the other cores in mind. Supreme Commander and Command and Conquer 3 are the only 2 at this time taking advantage of more than 1 core.
For cooling looking at something like the Scythe Ninja or the Zalman 9700.