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RAF92_BattleHawk
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:10 am
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Here it is, the final lineup for tonights game: (for some reason, the estimate had some spots blank, but the guy assured me that they were included in the final product)

CPU type: Intel Pentium Core 2 E6600 Duo GHZ Processer $285.00
Fan: Case Cooling Fan $0.00
Mainboard: ASUS Mainboard $185.00
RAM: 2GB DDR2 RAM 533MHZ - Kingston $130.00
Floppy Drive: Floppy Drive $15.00
Hard Drive: 320GB SATA2 WD Hard Drive 7200/16MB $100.00
Video Card: 320MB ASUS GEForce 8800GTS PCI-E $385.00
Monitor: 19" BENQ LCD Color Monitor - 5ms $250.00
CDROM: None $0.00
DVDRewrite: 20 Speed Liteon Multiformat DVD Rewriter $55.00
DVDROM: None $0.00
Soundcard: Integrated Audio $0.00
Speakers: None (My Headset) $0.00
Case: 17" ATX Case w/ 500 Watt Power Supply $95.00
Keyboard: Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard $25.00
Mouse: Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse $25.00
Modem: None $0.00
Network Card: Integrated 10/100 Network Card $0.00
Installation $75.00
OS: Windows XP Home Edition $125.00

Sub Total $1750.00
PST @ 7% $122.50
GST @ 6% $105.00
Total $1977.50

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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:17 am Post subject: Re: Spend Away!
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:01 am
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Looks like a nice setup. So the place your buying the parts from is also putting it together for you? I only ask because some of the prices for parts seems a little high but for $1750 if someone else is putting it together for ya and your getting a warranty I guess it's not bad.

One thing I wonder about is the 500W power supply. I'm assuming that the Motherboard your getting is SLI and if you plan on running 2 of those 8800 GTS's in the future I"m not sure if 500W will be enough.

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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:36 am
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Couple of things you need to do:-

PSU:-Find out the make of the power supply.
Many people think that, just because a power supply is a power supply it will work as it should.
That isn't the case.
Power supplies that come with cases do not tend to be as good.
I've used two generic psu's in builds before myself;
One was very good (and really shouldn't have been - just luck of the draw), the other I threw out after a month and spent about Â£80.00 ($160.00) replacing it.

Monitor:-
Ask what model the Benq is and get figures for its contrast and native resolution.

Motherboard:-What model is it? I don't think you'll need an sli set up with an 8800 GPU. If you do go for sli, it won't double up your performance. It actually works out to a gain of around just30-35%. If you're not going for an sli set-up, make sure you have access to the extra PCI slots of a non-sli board.

Sound:-
Modern motherboards have quite good onboard audio. However, you should look at getting a separate card for two reasons:-
a) You can get a very good gaming audio card for next to nothing.
b) Onboard sound uses your systems' resources. Getting a separate sound card will free up more resources for better games performance.

Graphics:-
The 8800 GTS is a very powerful card, whichever model you choose. Ask about its core clock and RAMDAC speeds (higher = faster performance). I've had a look at it and think you'll be happy with the return. In a year or so's time I think we'll have completely different type of graphic cards and, if you did want to upgrade, it should be quite simple.

Hope this helps.

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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:02 pm Post subject: Re: Spend Away!
Thanks, I'll look into it. Turns out it was an ASUS PK5 Motherboard _________________ 'Aut Pugna aut Morere'

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