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04-12-2010, 09:46 PM
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New Rig
I had the itch to build and with the help of lurking and glc I think I have a list. It's more of an upgrade really. Pretty sure I can get away with my current PSU.
Core i5-750 (new) ASUS P7P55D-E (new) G. Skill DDR3 1600 (Ripjaws 2 4GB Kits) (new) EVGA 8800gt Akimbo - SC Corsair 620HX 1x 1.5TB WD 3x 1TB WD Green Drives 2 cd/dvd drives (don't remember the brand. don't use them too much) Antec 900 case (love this case) Let me know what you guys think. I'll be using it for web dev, video and audio editing, GIS development, virtual machines, and light gaming like TF2.
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04-12-2010, 10:56 PM
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Nice upgrade. If you even think you might want to run 2 ATI cards in Crossfire any time later, get the P7P55D-E Pro.
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04-12-2010, 11:23 PM
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I'm thinking of doing that anyway. That way the next "upgrade" would be the video card and PSU. Should keep me from having to do a full new build for at least another 4 years.
Heck the very first computer I built 6.5 years ago is still running most of the current games (gave it to a friend and it even survived a move to japan). The budget build I built for my aunt 5 years ago has only needed a hard drive replaced. Since I really don't game too much on the PC anymore I'll just keep swapping out parts until they die. I'll keep the parts from this one around just in case. I don't have any backup parts and working from home now I am kind of reliant on this box. New company gave me a laptop... a thinkpad T60 piece of garbage. If we weren't MS Gold Certified partners I would take my macbook pro in running win7 in VMWare Fusion. Half tempted to get a shell and some electrical tape to do just that. |
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04-12-2010, 11:31 PM
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04-13-2010, 10:06 AM
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Looks like the Pro board also does SLI. However, you are at the point now where you would need to look in the used market for another 8800GT.
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04-13-2010, 10:12 AM
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And for it to be stable in SLI it will need identical cards.
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07-07-2010, 02:39 PM
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I upgraded last month. Here is what I went with. It's been running like a champ.
Mobo - Asus P6X58D Premium CPU - Intel Core i7 930 RAM - 12GB OCZ Gold DDR3 1600 Full specs are in my updated sig |
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