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heeshung  SurClaro senior forum member Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Total posts: 571
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I think your GTX 295 is an excellent choice. I'm not sure about Enermax PSU's, as I've always felt like they were on the 'cheap' side. Lastly, I'd wait for Windows 7 as it's coming out in a couple months than plop down $180 for Vista Ultimate now.
Everything else looks excellent. |
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tropicalfish Addict to SurClaro Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Total posts: 989 Age: 5 Gender: Male
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tropicalfishAddict to SurClaro Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Total posts: 989 Age: 5 Gender: Male
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Enermax PSU? Don't go with it.
Go with something from the Corsair line.
EDIT: Excuse the double post. |
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tropicalfishAddict to SurClaro Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Total posts: 989 Age: 5 Gender: Male
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Sorry about the triple post, I have no way of deleting posts.
Anyways, I'm using my dad's account to view your list. Some suggestions:
Remove the CPU cooler. You don't need it as the processor already comes with one. Not to mention that the cooler isn't compatible with LGA1366.
The stock cooler will do fine.
Do tell if you will be overclocking, I can recommend some better coolers.
Power supply: You don't need that many watts, and there are other decent PSU's for lower cost. You could really go with something as low as a 550W PSU (bare minimums. Go with at least 600W), but of course, if you want more upgradeability, I recommend these:
Corsair 650W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005
Corsair 750W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006
Corsair 850W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139009
Corsair (Modular) 1000W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139007
Monitor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009125
As far as the sound card goes, I honestly don't think there will be a significant audible difference. Sure, the audio will use some CPU load because it's not a dedicated card, the difference should be negligible. |
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heeshungSurClaro senior forum member Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Total posts: 571
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| I somewhat disagree with TFish; you can never have too much power in a PSU. I'd go with nothing less than the TX750. Since your cost is already in the $4K range, I don't think it'd hurt to just go with the 1000W version. As an added bonus, you get bragging rights. |
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| rd Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Total posts: 4300 Location: COMFORTABLY NUMB, in U.S.A. *** KOFF *** Age: 19 Gender: Male
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Have to agree with heeshung on the PSU. Bare min. would be 750w.
I would also change from the one 1TB HD, to two 500gb HD's. I'm not a big fan on having everything on one HD.
RD |
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Cat1 Forum Moderator - Master member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1501 Location: KFTW (Meacham Intl, Ft. Worth) Age: 40 Gender: Male
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Did ya ever wonder how the 80PLUS ratings are figured out?
I know how it's done with all other things, I call the company and ask for their test results then crunch the numbers...
But this is much easier http://80plus.org/
So far all good info folks, and I appreciate it  |
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Cat1Forum Moderator - Master member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1501 Location: KFTW (Meacham Intl, Ft. Worth) Age: 40 Gender: Male
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| heeshung wrote: | | Lastly, I'd wait for Windows 7 as it's coming out in a couple months than plop down $180 for Vista Ultimate now. |
I'm sure there will be "upgrades" available... for a nominal fee of course! And since the offer is on the table, I don't know that I can wait a couple of months. As it is, I have been waiting over a year and a half to upgrade to a new system.
How large of a file is the release of Windows 7 supposed to be or being guessed to be? I am reading that the "Beta is 2.8GB".
I'm thinking of setting the OS and my most used drafting applications, and the other necessities on one SSHD. OCZ has one in a 60GB model that is $99.00 after rebate. 
I missed the resolution difference between the BenQ and the Acer monitor, thanks for catching that Tfish.
I also took Hees and your advice on the power supply and swapped over to the Corsair 1KW, I also dropped the sound card and replaced with the 60GB SSHD mentioned above. The MB does what that sound card will do out of the box anyway as I read real deep into the specifications.
And with all you folks help it cut the bottom line a bit too. And that doesn't hurt at all.
Thanks folks  |
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tropicalfishAddict to SurClaro Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Total posts: 989 Age: 5 Gender: Male
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Cat1Forum Moderator - Master member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1501 Location: KFTW (Meacham Intl, Ft. Worth) Age: 40 Gender: Male
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To me, it's about the speed, and possible overclocking capability. I may not use it but I'd like to have the option...This is going to take a while. I guess that is one of the problems with beer goggles. I may have found something even better, for less cost.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104084
| tropicalfish wrote: | | Oh, and any purpose for the SSD? It seems awfully expensive for the capacity. |
The only purpose for this would be to hold the OS.
I am admittedly not that familiar with Vista, and I haven't even seen a screen shot of Win7. But the reports are that booting times are literally seconds, like 2 to 5 seconds for the system to be fully up and running. Apparently there may need to be some tweaking done to optimize the OS to totally use a SSD, again I'm not that smart on it yet. But the boot times sound incredible, my system now takes on the order of 5 minutes to boot up and it's not all due to stuff in the start-up folder.
Stay tuned, I'm sure there will be more changes.
Oh and again, as always, thanks for the help... The questions make me think and do deeper research |
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mel wilsonForum Moderator - Master member Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Total posts: 2481 Location: England, Biggin Hill, (EGKB) Age: 63 Gender: Male
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| tropicalfish wrote: | Apparently there may need to be some tweaking done to optimize the OS to totally use a SSD, again I'm not that smart on it yet. But the boot times sound incredible, my system now takes on the order of 5 minutes to boot up and it's not all due to stuff in the start-up folder.
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Need more wood on the fire Clay, sounds like the steam pressure has dropped below 2lb PSI
Mel. |
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tropicalfishAddict to SurClaro Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Total posts: 989 Age: 5 Gender: Male
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Quoted the wrong guy, Mel. 
I have my new computer ordered (See sig).
Should receive it and have it set up by the weekend. I'll report to you my startup times then. |
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Cat1Forum Moderator - Master member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1501 Location: KFTW (Meacham Intl, Ft. Worth) Age: 40 Gender: Male
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| mel wilson wrote: | Need more wood on the fire Clay, sounds like the steam pressure has dropped below 2lb PSI
Mel. |
Trust me... That's a good thing today... I got into it with some folks today and it was all me being 
Now... RELAXING... just designing a system... sipping a brew, listening to ELO Discography and everything will be fine, no I swear, really, everything will be fine.
Nothing a little Ma Ma Ma Bell, and Mr. Bluesky won't cure. |
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tropicalfishAddict to SurClaro Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Total posts: 989 Age: 5 Gender: Male
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| Startup time including BIOS check and stuff: ~one minute. |
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Cat1Forum Moderator - Master member Joined: 02 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1501 Location: KFTW (Meacham Intl, Ft. Worth) Age: 40 Gender: Male
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Gents, I'd like to thank all of you again for your input and your help.
As of 15 minutes ago all but the memory has been ordered. I had to do a couple of last minute changes since both the HDD's and the memory was out of stock. I bumped the drives up to the next available, and it looks like I will just have to wait on the memory. The big item I really wanted was the GTX 295 and I called about that one last week to see if a time could be offered for resupply. The memory shows as: Out Of Stock ETA: 3/17/2009 9:54:00 AM, but then again it was supposed to be in last week as well.
All in all I'm pretty stoked  |
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