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10-20-2006, 12:15 PM
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Critque my build, please
My budget is under $1400
Case : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811144168 DVD Burner: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106013 DVD ROM : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827106028 HDD : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136033 RAM : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820146571 x2 MB : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131031 CPU : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115003 Vid card : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121554 This falls around my budget, but I was wondering if there was any place where I could cut back from without loosing much performace?. or should I just buck up and go for it? Thanks! |
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10-20-2006, 12:57 PM
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Do you intend to run dual video cards?
Since you're buying an ATI card for an SLI board (despite the talk about ATI cards in that set up it really doesn't work) it appears the answer is 'no'. In that case you don't need a dual card board. Save money here. You've chosen speed over price/storage with that Raptor (on line death matches?) do you need to do so? Save more money and get larger drive. The cpu is a great choice. Memory is OK but if you want another 1gb for dual channel get 2/512mb sticks now and 2 more later. Intel boards have 4 slots.
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10-20-2006, 03:28 PM
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Get this video card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121029 Costs $100 less, basically the same card, less 256MB RAM. The difference between 256MB and 512MB will be very little at best. Get a board such as the P5B: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131030 As Pam said, you can't run two ATi's on a SLI board (in Crossfire mode), so there's no sense in getting an SLI board. Also, nVidia chipsets haven't been mixing that well with Intel chips...they work, but aren't as good as an Intel chipset. That's a very bad choice of power supply...try to find the case without a power supply and get a quality power supply seperately. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817104954 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817104934
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