Wolverines

Hey gang.  The past few weeks, I've been researching parts and have finally started to put together my new gaming rig.  Here's where I'm at......


Coolermaster HAF932 full tower case ($120)
eVGA X58 SLI mobo model 132-BL-E758-A1 ($272 after $20 rebate)
Intel Core i7 920 CPU ($200)
Thermalright TRUEBlack 120 CPU Cooler with Sony Scythre S-FLEX 120mm 1600rpm fan ($74)
OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 1333MHz Intel Extreme Edition XMP Ready Series 6GB Triple Channel Kit ($80)
Western Digital 250G SATA II HD (free - came from another system that wasn't in use)
Corsair HX1000W PSU (free- is coming from my existing system)
LG Blu-ray DVD-RW optical drive (free - came from another system that wasn't in use)
eVGA GeForce GTX260 Core 216 Superclocked Video Card - 896MB GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0 x16, SLI Ready, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV 896-P3-1257-AR ($161 after $30 rebate)


So far everything is together except the video card which I'm still waiting for.  Hopefully I'll be up and running by next week.

EDIT: Just upgraded the video card for another 6 bucks to the superclocked.  Not much of a difference, but I'll take what I can get.

why you sill dont play anything anymore now do you

Looks nice hawkes, im about to build one myself. If you dont mind me asking, why did you go with the intel i7 over the AMD quad core phenom?  Trying to decide which way to go and the price on the AMD quad cores are pretty attractive. Attractive like big tittes, only its a CPU for cheap. Is the i7 a better chip? I dont care about overclocking crap.

I'm not an overclocker myself and honestly I think my choice of chip is more a preference of Intel over AMD.  I honestly couldn't tell you the pros and cons of going with one over the other since I didn't even consider AMD in my choice. 

this. +1 to the yeti. yeeetttttiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

looks pretty beastly, you should double up on those cards =)

I didn't look into the specs on the board, but one thing you might consider is raided hard drives.  You'd be shocked how much that will speed up a system.  You can pick up 250gb hard drives for like 40 bucks.  Grab 3 more of them, run some raid 10, and you can kiss disk i/o lag goodbye.

Yeah I will do that a little down the road.  Cash is all spent now so I'll have to wait.

I'm curious, is XP still the OS to game from, or has Win7 64 arrived?

Win7 64 is NICE

What she said........

I've heard that Win 7 is more stable and runs better than XP or Vista.  I just got access to the Ultimate version with my actioin pack sub so I'll be installing that on the new rig. 

Sounds like Red has some experience with this.

yeah been running it for awhile....you don't really need ultimate...unless you pirate it. Home Premium has everything you need. I plan on buying it.

yes you read that right

Ultimate and Professional come in the action pack and on ly 1 key for each so I'll probably put Pro on my wife's machine and Ultimate on mine.

JT is correct.  RAID 0 or RAID 10 FTW (0+1).  Or consider a 10K RPM SATA drive (or drives)...make a big difference too (at the cost of them being louder).  Imagine a RAID 10 of 10K RPM drives.... drool.

Everything else looks good to me.

New PC is running pretty sweet and Windows 7 rocks.

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Just sayin.