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| Ultra Techie | There are a lot of posts concerning this I believe... anyway... use my spec in green below. You can switch the graphics card to 8800gtx instead of x1950xt. There is one Intel config. For AMD... wait for an AMD fanboy to reply. haha
__________________ Use my advice at your own risk. My rig: CoolerMaster Centurion 5 SamSung 20" LCD Intel E6750 @ 2.66Ghz Gigabyte p35-ds3r Patriot Extreme 2gb 4-4-4-12 Sapphire X1950XT 256mb Samsung 500gb @ 7200 PSU Xclio GreatPower 550W Samsung DVD Burner Logitec X-230 2.1 |
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| Commander SMod | Intel: Case - Thermaltake Armor or Antec 900 or Your choice... Motherboard - Gigabyte P35-DS3R CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 RAM - 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 CAS4 Graphics - EVGA 8800GTS 320MB Power Supply - Corsair 520HX (From buy.com) Hard Drive - Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 16MB Cache Optical Drive - Sony NEC Optiarc DVD Burner Optional Aftermarket HSF - Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro (From svc.com) AMD: Case - Thermaltake Armor or Antec 900 or Your choice... Motherboard - EVGA 590 SLI MCP CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ RAM - 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800 CAS4 Graphics - EVGA 8800GTS 320MB Power Supply - Corsair 520HX (From buy.com) Hard Drive - Samsung Spinpoint 500GB HD 16MB Cache Optical Drive - Sony NEC Optiarc DVD Burner Optional Aftermarket HSF - Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro (From svc.com) Intel build is around $1200. AMD build is around $1000.
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| Wizard Techie Join Date: Aug 2005
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| I would go with intel build He can save money by getting E6550 and Asus motherboard Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 Conroe 2.33GHz 4M shared L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor - Retail Newegg.com - ASUS P5K SE LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
__________________ ![]() CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600 MOBO: Intel DP35DP Video card: eVGA 8800GTS 320MB Hard drive: WD 500GB Monitor: Samsung 206BW 20" Wide OS: Windows XP Professional SP2 Last edited by maroon1; 07-31-2007 at 12:22 PM. |
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