New Build any help?Post Date: 2008-03-07 |
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skywalker 
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 Topic: New Build any help?Posted: 07 Mar 2008 at 5:39pm |
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this is my 2nd build and was wondering if this is overkill? i only use 1 monitor for my games and usually run at 1280x1024. any help on this build ?
Case: Digital Storm 950Si (Black Anodized Aluminum Finish)
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grooverider
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Posted: 07 Mar 2008 at 5:45pm |
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Get 4gb of Corsair Dominator 1066mhz instead of 8gb of that ram IMO.
GTX are out of stock I thought..I would just get 2 GT's anyway (8800).
Your getting air cooling stage 3 which is a waste if your not going to overclock the processor.
You need a 64 bit OS if your getting 4GB of ram +
I think you can water cool in a 750si case as well if you want to save a little more $
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SunfighterLC
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Posted: 07 Mar 2008 at 6:25pm |
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I thought it was Ultra cards and 8400 CPUs. Yet both those messages saying they were out of stock are gone, or i forgot where they were. So maybe they got more? *shrug*
But yes...
64bit is a must have if you wanna go 4GB or more of ram.
You wont even be getting close to using that 8GB of ram if all you are doing is gaming. For gaming 4GB is about the most youd ever need for at least the coming years. 8GB would be like..if you were doing major video editing or opening massively huge files.
I sorta disagree with the guy above about stage 3. The improved case fans would help out the duel GTXs cards quite a bit. They pump out quite a lot of heat.
I think the 750 case only supports the CPU theroelectric cooling. could be wrong though.
Ill say it for the millionth time..i dont like extreme chips lol. a E8400 OCed would do great enough for a gaming machine. That 900 bucks saved could seriously go into even greater improvements for your machine. Like a 3rd GTX and a single loop cooling system for example. I just dont see a point in those chips since CPUs usually arnt the bottleneck for games.
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