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on thing people often discount is how quiet water cooling rigs are. You can build an air cooled rig that nearly matches cooling performance for cheaper, but it's going to be much, much louder.

yeah, the 800 clocked ram will just default and run at 667 with the others. the 667 is 1.8v and the 800 is 1.9v and your mobo is 1.8v by default so both should run together with no tweaking, BUT... 2gb is plenty, and if I were you I would just ditch the kingstons completely, and run the XMS2's...

I know, I was pointing out the difference between the G92 8800GTS and the g80 8800GTS(a lot of people are not aware of the core difference and think the 640 is better than the 512), but for the price of the g80 GTS (his original pick), the 9600 is a good card to get.

Bump I caught 1 mistake I made(I think) I had SDRAM selected before but I read that waht I need is FB-DIMM, so I got that. I also changed my optical drive from an IDE model to a SATA model. Also changed my hard drived because A lot of the reviews of the seagates said they kicked a lot of...

$50 Newegg.com - KFA2 by Galaxy 86GFE8HDFEXX GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 SLI Supported Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

Because cpu's and heatsinks are not perfectly flat, there are concaves and convexs and tiny imperfections where they will not contact each other, and you need something to fill that gap. If your cpu and heatsink are lapped you might be able to get away with it, but still not worth the risk. Why...

9800GTX or 9600GT but honestly with a computer that old you may be better of building a new one, instead of upgrading just the video in that old thing. New CPU and ram will help too. If you must put a new vid card in that one, I wouldn't put anything better than an 8600GT in it. Just not worth...

Stay away from the 8800GTS 640MB. The 640MB means it's an older g80 core card. A 8800GTS 512MB has the g92 core and is a much better card. Better than the 9600, but for the price the 9600 is a good card to get. 9600 is a g92 core as well.

OK here's the list Newegg.com - Once You Know, You Newegg This will be my first attempt at building a server, although I have built regular and gaming PC's. I need this to monitor and record 25 ip cameras, which is why there is so much HDD. I plan to put the HDD's in a RAID-5 array. I'm not...

wow... just, wow of course you need thermal paste. consider it a must

Who's a spammer? Me? Why'd I get an infraction for having a sig that's too big? What happened to Edit System in User CP where you could enter the names of your components and it showed up in an organized fashion in your sig?

The top one, with the 2nd slot cooler

No it's not, those are just copper heat pipes that bring the heat up from the base and spread it to the aluminum fins

No, the GPU ram has nothing to do with mobo specs. You can get a vid card with DDR3 on it no problem If a mobo supports DDR2 1200, it will support all DDR2 that is slower than that, DDR2 1066, DDR2 800, etc.

cpu cooler - Thermalright Ultra Extreme (TRUE) If you can fit it in your case. Most cases won't fit it so it's little brother, the Thermalright Ultima-90, would probably be best bet. OR you can go water cooling... paste - Arctic Silver 7 RAM - Newegg has a great deal on G-Skill PC6400 2 x 1GB...