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07-25-2008, 01:39 AM
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Finally went all out.
This whole thing started as a "Under $500 upgrade", and ballooned to a $1,200 shopping spree.
 (sorry for shitty cell phone pic) Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 ATI Radeon HD4870 4gb RAM Antec Twelve Hundred case. WD Cavair 1tb drive. OCZ Vendetta 2 heatsink. Xigmatek PSU. Gigabyte mobo. Too tired to build it now. Drove to a Microcenter that was 3 hours from my house to get the gear I didn't buy from NewEgg. And the weather was awful today, so. I'm excited though. Often times, building the new rig is 90% of the fun. So, I'm gonna hold off til tomorrow to build it. |
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07-25-2008, 08:59 AM
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You will be pleased. Might I recommend Vista x64, in order to get use out of the 4GB of ram? I'm holding off still and running Vista & XP 32-bit, but even with only actually using 3GB my new build hauls ass.
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07-25-2008, 09:15 AM
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I was going to go with XP x64 at first, and if driver support sucked total ass, then I was going to consider Vista.
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07-25-2008, 10:47 AM
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Yeah, from what I understand Vista x64 has better support than xp64, though I personally haven't tried vistax64 at all yet, so let me know, I'm more curious of the gaming aspect of course..
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07-25-2008, 04:31 PM
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Haven't loaded an OS yet, but I did get it OC'd to 3ghz. I'll definitely take it higher than that.
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07-25-2008, 04:39 PM
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Playing God @ Your Xpense
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Nice... I haven't OC'd mine, got rid of that habit a while ago. I'm at the point where any major upgrade I do needs to last me a good 2+ years.
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