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03-27-2006, 11:13 AM
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First Build
Just joined the forum..have been a silent lurker for a little while ...lol
Just want to say Thank you for all your recommendations and the time and effort to help others!! It is appreciated! Ok, so heres what we're looking at so far: OS-Microsoft-Windows-Pro Case -ThermalTake Armor Motherboard-Asus A8n32-SLI Deluxe Power Supply-Antec True Power 550 watt CPU- AMD/Athlon 64X2 4200 Socket 939 Ram-Corsair Value Ram 2 GB Hard Drives- Western Digital-2)250 G's 7200 Sata2 16 mb cache and 1) 36 G' 10K EVGA XFX GF6800XT Video Cards X 2 DVD Burner- Samsung 16X with 5X DVD-Ram Write and LightScribe Floppy - NEC 1.44 MB Whatcha think? any suggestions? Thanks! |
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03-27-2006, 11:28 AM
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Looks like a pretty good build to me. However, you need a soundcard I do believe. I'm not sure if that mobo has onboard audio.
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03-27-2006, 11:35 AM
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Yes it does have onboard sound...we're still trying to decide what soundcard we want to go with..My husband is wanting to start recording music..so were looking hard into that venue..
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03-27-2006, 03:14 PM
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Hi, welcome to PC Mech
 One thing that I suggest that instead of going with 2 6800GT's, it would be cheaper and way more efficient to get one 7800GT or 7900GT. One of these cards will blow away a pair of 6800's.
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Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe 939 Socket | AMD Opteron 180 Denmark (Dual-Core, 2.4GHz Stock) | eVGA 7800GT PCI-E | 2 GB Corsiar DDR400 | DVD Burner | DVD-ROM | Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 Speakers | Antec TP3 550W | Samsung 930B 19" LCD | WinXP Pro SP2 |
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03-27-2006, 04:55 PM
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Thanks Make..was going to take your suggestion, but newegg is out of stock..oh well..can always upgrade later...right..lol
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03-27-2006, 05:15 PM
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Member (8 bit)
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Check zipzoomfly.com as well.
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03-27-2006, 05:21 PM
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Would stay away from Samsung optical drives. I've found them to be noisy and unreliable. Lite-on and NEC are the brands i'd go for.
You can save money by gettting XP Home, unless you need the advanced networking features of Pro. Would second the recommendation to get a single, more powerful graphics card now. FK
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